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How
to Repel Internet Distractions
Research
indicates that when student works in the Internet learning
environment, there might be some distractions on student’s
attention and intention. Here are some hints intended
to help online students repel those distractions. Hope
you could take some of the suggestions based on your own
real situations and preferences.
- Use university-designated
email address (ODU email address) to submit assignments
and communicate with the instructor and TAs.
- Make a detailed Time Allocation
Plan at the beginning of the semester according to
the course requirement and individual working schedules.
Set up fixed time for difference assignments.
- Focus your attention on the
course work during the period of time (30 minutes,
one hour, two hours or three hours, according the
Time Allocation Plan) set for your course works.
- Do other non-course related
web works until the intended course work has been
completely finished.
Please don’t
do the following after logging on the Internet at the
time for purpose of doing the course work
- Checking, writing, and answering
personal emails other than course related ones.
- Setting beep signals for email
arrivals.
- Checking news, weather and
sports information.
- Checking pop-up ads.
- Shopping online.
- Chatting online.
- Launching entertaining programs
while working on course work.
- Surfing any other irrelevant
web sites.
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