As anyone who has read my blog here at eLearners can tell, I love online education.  Very few of my posts have touched on anything negative.  Unfortunately, this is one of those posts.  I am not sure I would even use the word “negative”.  Perhaps “extremely challenging” would be the best way to phrase it.

As we wrap up the final two weeks of this class, we’re deeply engaged in a group project.  I understand the need to collaborate with people, but I don’t like putting my grade in jeopardy based on the performance of others.  I don’t think this will be the case this time around, but there is always that concern.

I immediately volunteered to be the facilitator of the group.  My situation is a great example of why group projects can be challenging.  One of my team members is in Houston (very close to me), another is on the east coast, and the other one is in the Army.  He’s serving in Korea at the moment.  So getting everyone on the same page can be difficult.

Luckily, everyone has been very good about being proactive.  Our first job is to come up with an outline for a big case study we’re going to complete next week.  Next week, we have to write the case study, and then we do the final exam.  It’s going to be a rough couple of weeks, but I think we can handle it.  It seems the more challenging this class gets, the more I realize that I enjoy it.

I think with projects like this, I can certainly tell the difference in the level of urgency between my undergrad program at Kaplan and the graduate program at Norwich.