It's cheaper
Online courses are more affordable than regular classes. How it can be cheaper when it's the same course content? Online course, once made, it can be available to not only hundred of learners but to thousands of them or even more. In regular class or a course where you have to be in person is limited number of students which can be there at the same time. You don't need any textbooks as all the course materials are available in digital form. Techer doesn't need to explain the topic all over again, once recorded it can be available to any amount of students. The lower is price of the course the more students will enroll which will lead to a higher profit for a techer, institution or university. There is no need for a classroom, to pay for electricity or other bills. You don't need to pay for commuting. In general you can get the same quality content for much lower price.
Time flexible
Regular courses or school lessons come first and oder needs as work, family, free time or your hobbies are on the second place as there is no way around. Online study can offer you that you can put your work, family, free time and hobbies first and in the gaps you can fill in some studying. Remember how sad it was to be at school during the nice sunny summer day instead of to be sitting on the beach or to be with your friends? With online study you can enjoy nice sunny day and leave the studying for the evening or a rainy day. How much time can save you no need of commuting? Even if you would invest to online study the time you would usually commute it will make in a few months a huge change in your life. You just woke up and you feel full of energy and decided to make some change. If you have an urgent situation you have to take care of you can take a break from online studying anytime you need. You can study in pyjamas. You can study anytime and anywhere you want.
Wide variety of options
It's completely up to you what to study. You can study whatever you want in almost every field (there are still some career paths where online option is not available yet). When I was studying at school I had passion for some subjects but they were accompanied by another subjects which I didn't like but there was no other way. In online study you can study only what you like. I would suggest that nowadays are available millions of online courses Worldwide. You can choose a course from 20 minutes to 360 hours (or even more) within the price range starting at 10$ (or even for free) up to thousands of dollars (in case of full online degrees ten thousands dollars).
Study environment
Do you remember when you were studying and was reading one page several times and after a while wasn't able to remember anything. It's because you were forced to study in environment which wasn't the best for you. As we are all different someone prefer to study in the park, on the beach, in library or in quiet in your room surrounded by motivational posters. You can choose the environment which fits you the best and will help you to focus on your studies.
Career advancement
There is no need to wait a few years until you finish the whole university. You can study individual courses and at the end connect all what you learned into a degree or professional certificate. The advantage here is eventhough you didn't finish the whole degree you can already apply for a job within the desired field based on your first courses/subjects learned and go step by step. You can even earn valuable work experience along with your studies.
Opmerkingen