The main key elements to lead you to be succeed in getting online learning are organization, time management and effective communication. Not only that, these are also the key factors affect you to achieve success in your professional learning.
Managing a lot of files through all the course or controlling many documents of the work is very tired, confused and complicated. Many people feel exhausted to remember the place they located a document, therefore, saving the materials in an organized directory makes it easy to browse through files. The structure of a directory includes naming syle and hierarchy style. Naming a set of folders that contain some subfolders is called the naming style, while the main folders are named in a general way, the subfolder names are more specific. This way of organizing files helps me a lot to working effectively. After using a naming style, for further organization, the hierarchy style should be use arrange the order of folders and subfolders. In order to work best, remembering that you should think carefully and decide which naming and hierarchy styles to suit your working files.
An online student does not travel as often as traditional student for course related purpose (OR5000-Graduate Student Orientation, p.4). Therefore, people tend to think an online student has a plenty of available time. But being a working student, the time I have for learning and working is limited, and as the time pass on, the pressure becomes more and more heavier each day. Hence, a shedule must be planned for balancing the time between working, learning and social life. Time management is the key to succeed in professional career. In fact, finishing job duties on time can only be achieved by doing them systematically without time management skill or delaying job duties until
References: Columbia Southern University (2013), Student Handbook OR5000-Graduate Student Orientation. Retrieved from https://online.columbiasouthern.edu/webapps/portal/