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By Jamie Littlefield, About.com Guide to Distance Learning since 2004

Distance Learning Helps Busy Women

Sunday December 21, 2008
A growing number of busy women are enrolling in online classes while juggling work and family responsibilities.

A recent KSBI-TV article reports:
"By day, she’s a billing analyst for her local electric company; by night, Heather Morel, 29, of Minneapolis is a wife, mother and student. Not at her local university, but at Capella, an accredited online university. “I have a full time job and two young children,” says Morel. “There’s no way I could pursue my MBA, which I need to get ahead in the business I’m in, if I had to go downtown every week and sit through a class."
Many online programs allow students to log in and complete work whenever they're available - whether it's at 2:00 p.m. when the kids are put down for a nap or 2:00 a.m. when a parent finally has a little quiet. Mothers, in particular, find that online learning is a smart way to complete a degree or prepare for the workforce.

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