Things sometimes get out of control, and it takes some time and effort to get things back to the way that makes you happy. This is a challenge for a lot of people, and that is taking the time to get things back to where they should be. I have encountered just this challenge in the last couple of weeks, and now I am taking the time to sit and think.
It is sometimes the hardest thing to do, just sit and think because like a lot of people there are always too many other things that need to be done. Having a chance to refocus and understand what has happened and why helps make the future a little easier. The challenge I was facing was dealing with an online course that was not well-designed or executed. My choice was to continue with the online course and suffer through it, or to walk away and know that I did what was right for me. The decision came this week when after a couple of major frustrations with the course, I decided that I couldn’t continue with it and needed to walk away. I contacted the university that was offering the course and explained my feelings to them. I also had to write an e-mail explaining everything, and then I was refunded my course fee and am no longer taking the course. I have taken other online courses through colleges and never felt this way about the course, instructors, or material before, so this was extremely hard for me to deal with.
The course was something that I really wanted to take, but understood that if I wasn’t learning anything and just getting frustrated, it wasn’t a course worth taking. Maybe part of it was feeling that the instructors didn’t understand the material, or maybe they weren’t comfortable with online training. I know that I was really frustrated with the length of time the assignment took to be marked and even how long it took to get answers to e-mails. The length was a lot longer than I ever dealt with during any of the other courses I took. This is the first course that I have tried to take through a university, and it sure wasn’t the experience I wanted.
I know that having a Certificate for Instructing Adults makes it a little different for me taking courses know because I understand what is expected from instructors. I have taken courses and seminars where the instructor has been great, and somewhere the instructor wasn’t the best, but normally I learned something anyway. This online course was proving to be a course where I wasn’t going to learn, so I am happy I decided to walk away.
I have taken some time, figured things out and understand why I was unhappy the last couple of weeks. Now, maybe I can focus on the things that make me happy, and I realize that taking the time to sit and just think was the best thing I could have done today.
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