Motivation in the digital classroom
Filed in archive Articles of note... by mstandaert on May 18, 2005
A story from the Palm Beach Post about a woman finding the right education for her. It's never too late.
Barland, 59, a former executive, a mother and grandmother, is a distance-learning student at Lynn. She takes tests in pajamas late at night while her husband Barry sleeps. She goes to the Lynn library - via cyberspace - and uses it as a portal to international publications. She talks with students from Europe and the Caribbean on Internet discussion boards.
She has even studied abroad, in a way. She took her wireless laptop on a recent vacation
to China to keep up with a class.
Barland had a successful career as a marketing executive with the Tutor Time child-care company, but when the company was bought by a Michigan firm and moved out of Boca Raton, she decided to stay.
Thirty-eight years go by in a hurry. Barland was a nursing student in 1963 when she met her future husband on a blind date. She dropped out of school, they married and raised a family.
Barland, 59, a former executive, a mother and grandmother, is a distance-learning student at Lynn. She takes tests in pajamas late at night while her husband Barry sleeps. She goes to the Lynn library - via cyberspace - and uses it as a portal to international publications. She talks with students from Europe and the Caribbean on Internet discussion boards.
She has even studied abroad, in a way. She took her wireless laptop on a recent vacation
to China to keep up with a class.Barland had a successful career as a marketing executive with the Tutor Time child-care company, but when the company was bought by a Michigan firm and moved out of Boca Raton, she decided to stay.
Thirty-eight years go by in a hurry. Barland was a nursing student in 1963 when she met her future husband on a blind date. She dropped out of school, they married and raised a family.
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