Managing Time in Online Courses: Student Perceptions

Time management is an important life skill and one that is vital to student success in higher education. Time management skills are per-ceived by some as more essential for success in on-line courses than in traditional face-to-face courses. This exploratory study uses a survey of student perception to discover relationships that may exist between time management skill de-velopment and on-line course completion. The study was inspired by student responses to open-ended questions on a prior survey that seemed to imply a positive relationship between on-line course completion and the acquisition of time management skills. This study was under-taken to explore those preliminary findings.