Why You Should Consider Online Education.

Besides the obvious reasons for choosing online education verse traditional education, such as decreased cost, no commute time, and convenience, there are other factors you should consider when choosing distance learning.

If you are currently working you probably know how hard it is to advance your career. In this competitive environment advancing your career has become more and more difficult. The difference between having your resume being seen or set aside, can be a college or post graduate degree. A degree makes your job application stand out compared to all the rest.

If you do not have a college degree, you stand to earn half of what a bachelor degree graduate will earn in his or her lifetime. That can be the difference between struggling and saving. It is NEVER to late to earn your bachelors or associates degree. Many people worry that they will be ridiculed for attending traditional college later in their lives. Now online colleges and universities offer a level playing field in the 'virtual classroom'.

In 1999, the median earning for a non high school graduate is $22,200 verse $26,293 for a high school graduate. The number is even more startling for a bachelor degree graduate - $36,337. For advanced the degrees, the median jumps to $46,958. (according to the US government census data from 1999)

In multiple studies, non-traditional forms of teaching, i.e.. television or online, have proven that there is "no significant differences" in student's abilities to learn the material, based on exam results.

"Analysis of variance on television, lecture, and discussion groups achievement scores indicated no significant differences among groups on either of two achievement tests." - 1956 Stuit, D. B., et al. An Experiment in Teaching. Iowa Closed-circuit Television Teaching Experiment: Summary Report. State University of Iowa.

As long as there is constant contact, and instructors make a real effort to stay in contact with students, the online world can be just as effective as a traditional classroom.

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." Liane Cordes

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