Finished a masters today...
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on April 20, 2008 at 08:39 PM
In August of 2005 I was bored and frustrated. I decided to check out graduate education options even though my undergrad experience pretty much sucked. After looking around I decided to try out the University of Liverpool’s Masters of Information Technology. At the time it was a relatively new program and I was hesitant to take a Msc via distance learning. Plus I couldn’t afford it and work wasn’t going to pay.
Ignoring all that, I went ahead and applied. Since then I have hit highs and lows—distance education is a lot of work and takes a lot more discipline than I thought I had to get things done. But now, 2.5 years later I have just made my final submission for my dissertation. I hated it and I loved it… I certainly had the best education experience I have yet to have in my life and would do it again.
Once the paper is graded I will post more about that. I did it on Microformats ;) Nothing too exciting, just looking at how they could be applied… in 91 pages with appendices!
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” I certainly had the best education experience I have yet to have in my life and would do it again.”
interesting … even after “hit[ting] highs and lows — distance education is a lot of work”?
I’m really interested in your thoughts about course delivery – what worked for you, what didn’t, etc. Is there any technology or techniques that have emerged since you started that could have taken some of the pain away?
got time for a blog post on this aspect of your experiance?
Awesome work dude! Congrats!
I’d love to see your final project when it’s all back and done…
Congratulations, Jesse!
Way to go man! Are you planning on doing anything else to follow up? PhD? MBA?
I will write more about the experience barry.b – thanks all.
@Adam H unless someone else wants to pay for it, I think I am done. I would love to do a PhD in Web Science but for now I think I am going to enjoy my weekends again.
Well, well… congratulations, man. What a journey. I’d really like to have a look at the dissertation. Microformats is of course THE TOPIC, IMHO. Sorta the low hanging fruit for Semantic Web.
Interesting that you grade distance ed as a successful way of delivering info to the disciplined student. hmm… hmm…
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