| No one is restricted from distance learning so long | | | | 3. Avoid distractions |
| as they meet the necessary requirements. | | | | If you get easily distracted, you need to maintain |
| However, success in distance learning depends on | | | | your distance from things and people that can |
| 5 powerful points. Do you think you have the | | | | distract you in order to make it successfully to |
| features below to make it successfully out of | | | | the end in your distance-learning program. You |
| your distance learning program? | | | | simply cannot allow yourself to get caught up in |
| 1. Self motivation | | | | things that derail you. |
| If you are the type that believes in having | | | | 4. Avoid postponing work that needs to be done |
| someone push you before you are able to do | | | | Procrastination doesn't pay when it comes to |
| anything, distance learning is certainly not what | | | | distance type of learning. As a procrastinator in a |
| you should consider. You can only find success | | | | distance learning setting, you'd do well to get rid |
| when you are the type that can easily motivate | | | | of this nature and adopt a more serious one. You |
| yourself. Because when the going gets tough, | | | | need to learn to do your assignments and tests |
| you'll have to be the one to encourage yourself | | | | as soon as you need to have them done and not |
| and keep going; no one is going to force or | | | | at any time later. |
| compel you to complete assignments and tests | | | | 5. Social life Control |
| on time - you are on your own. | | | | You may have a social life on a conventional |
| 2. Reading comprehension | | | | campus-based college. If you are thus thinking |
| While you may have the opportunity of | | | | that you can have a go at distance learning while |
| interacting in a class discussion, asking and | | | | at the same time enjoying a flamboyant social life, |
| answering questions to help you better | | | | you'd be making a rather grave error. If you are |
| understand your course in a regular college, | | | | capable of having your social life and still |
| distance learning does not offer you this feature. | | | | maintaining your standards in distance learning, you |
| You therefore need to have reading | | | | are somewhat in luck, but even then you should |
| comprehension skills to be able to understand the | | | | keep a lid on it. |
| materials you will have access to for your | | | | Anything outside of the above could greatly |
| program. Moreover, every instruction you'll get | | | | hamper your distance-learning endeavors, so you |
| throughout your course of study will require much | | | | might want to think it a bit more carefully through |
| reading. So you absolutely require reading skills to | | | | before you engage and get too deep into the |
| succeed in distance type of learning. | | | | effort. |