Online Learning Update

August 16, 2011

Back to School: Online Learning Helps Students Return to School

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

by Mary Pickett, Billings Gazette

Gabe Holmes, 30, started working at the S Ranch between Pryor and St. Xavier as a cowboy, later he was put in charge of the feedlot, and that got him interested in the business end of ranching, he decided to go to college to get a business degree. Gabe became one of hundreds of students heading to school from their home computers. The availability of online classes at Montana State University Billings was a major reason he decided to tackle a college degree. It wasn’t easy. Except for a couple of auto mechanics classes he took at a community college while he was in high school in California, he hadn’t taken any college classes. And he had been out of school since graduating from high school 13 years before. The first classes were challenging as he learned how to study for a college class. He’d always enjoyed reading, but found studying was a different kind of reading. With his job and a family, Montana State University Billings online classes made it possible for him to work on a degree. “If it weren’t for online classes, I wouldn’t have gone to school,” he said.

http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/education/article_896d7179-0fdf-5664-97d5-9f176884408a.html

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