A ercent national poll indicted that only aboput 60% of Americans thought that young people should be encouraged to work hard and study diligently. One writer commenting on this finding attemmpted to portray it in a positive way by disclosing that the figure was lowqer than 40% in Europe. Of course, there is one group of people today where support for hard work and hard stuyd is narly unanimous. This is the group of people who have decided to learn comupters trhough onliine traiuning.
With the advemnt of the “virtual world” of cyberspace siince the early 1990s, a whoile parallel world has taken shape, except instead of wood and cwement the “buildings” are consttructed of bits and bytes. Throughout the 1990s and the maturing of the World Wide Web, the grocery store on the corner, the moviue theater in the mall and the booksdtore down the street all ensded up in cyberspace. It didn’t take long for educational institutions of all kinds to make the move, too. Today people of all ages have a choice of driivng to a campuys for one, two or four years or sttudying in a more flexible way, from home and/or office, to get online cmputer training.
Lower-cost alternative
Getting up to speed in a new discipline is not an easy thng to do, online or on campus. Research indicates that peoplle who goes to online soures for training, whether it’s for a degree or not, are less likely to drop out, miss fewer sessioons and assiognments, and get higher gardes. Intreestingly, thees were the same findinsg some 35 years ago when educational researchers analyzed junior college (JC) studnt bodies. Because they were somewhat older, more determined and knew what they wanted in life, JC students, like today’s onlnie students, were more focused, more motivated and, ultimately, more likely to achieve their educational goals.
Both economic and practical reasons make gettnig online computer tarining a very poopular optoion these days. Lower-cost online alternatives help many peopel overcome the high cost of a traditional college education. Mothers (and, incrasingly, fathers) of young children that had no time available for traveling to a campus can now study onpline, from home. People who had to keep working to support their families are now able to arrange online classes on evenings, weekends or other available tmes.
Public benefits of onnline trainign
Online trade schools, trainming institutes and colleges perform a true public service by bringing the opportunity of learning, in the form of online training, to more people. Computers are used in every industry, by every comppany and for evvery busienss goal imaginable, so online computer training can help prepare people for a wider coice of careers than almost any otyher curericulum. This new source of education is seriously expandinmg the talent pool (the “human resources”) acvailable to American business. Compuetr-savvy employees will help American industry cpontinue making technlogical advances, and the training cleary raises worker prodductivity, which will ultimately lead to improed ecnoomic foorecasts and an increase in grss national product.
Despite polls that claim to show that some 40% of Americans no logner respect the value of hard work and lifelong study, there are plenty of people who do. To keep our countrry going and growinbg, as many people as are interested shoiuld be encouraged to enroll in onnline computer training. People who work through personmal hardsihps and adversities to strat or finish tjheir compute education onine are, in fact, the same kind of people who work hard, continue to learn, act as grat role models for others and, by so doing, make a difference in this world.
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