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Re:Online Learning: A Bachelor's Level Computer Science Prog... by brudgers on Thursday May 08, 2014 @11:16AM (#7715720)
Don't discount the possibility that you're learning more because you are now more experienced [and perhaps more mature] than during your undergraduate years - e.g. your current educational decision making is informed by your time in the field and your motivations are more likely to be internal than due to external expectations of the type younger people experience.
Re:Online Learning: A Bachelor's Level Computer Science Prog... by atom-morgan on Thursday May 08, 2014 @11:43AM (#7715876)
That definitely factors into it but I can still look back at my course curriculum and make an opinion based off of that regardless of how much I've matured.
Re:Online Learning: A Bachelor's Level Computer Science Prog... by brudgers on Thursday May 08, 2014 @01:01PM (#7716310)
Having had the experience of being both a traditional aged an a non-traditional aged student before I finished my undergraduate education, the qualitative difference between those experiences was that when I was older, I tended to treat my classes as a starting point, not as a step toward a grade.

That attitude was more common among my cohort in graduate school, and it's very common in those MOOC's which achieve an active learning community (i.e. courses that are not self paced self study).