Set
Your Workspace Conditions
- Get
Comfortable:
By the time you complete your course, you will have
logged many hours in front of the computer screen
and will have typed numerous pages of discourse. Make
sure that you have a comfortable chair and good lighting,
as well as wrist support at both your keyboard and
mouse. For more information on setting up an ergonomically
correct workstation, click here.
- Limit
Distractions: Try to work in a TV and phone-free
zone if possible or at least limit your exposure during
your allotted course work time as much as you can.
- Get
Support: Limiting distractions is realistic -
having no distractions is not. That's why it's so
important to talk with your family and/or co-workers
about your taking an online course. Online courses
can be very confusing for the people in your life.
You are "around" but are not as available. That's
why it's so important to share your reasoning behind
taking the course so they understand your goals and
are most likely to support you when you have to miss
dinner or a meeting. Additionally, by talking openly
with them about your class work schedule you may find
your family and co-workers support you invaluably
by running interference on potential distractions
while you work on your course.
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Some students find that working on their course
at the same time each day helps to limit distractions because
family and co-workers know to expect that during that time
they are temporarily unavailable. |
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