5) You’re able to immediately apply your education in a real-world setting.
Students of online universities can test the relevance of what they’re learning in real-time by applying what they’ve learned in their actual life. This helps the content “stick” more easily, especially as compared with the way people learn in traditional universities. In traditional settings, you learn in something of a four-year silo of isolation, separated meaningfully from the important world. The results of that, often, is students forgetting much of what they learned.
The online model also, however, instills in students an appreciation for the importance of life-long learning — something which will only increase in importance within the future. Even as software developers are constantly studying new programming languages to remain ahead, soon, too, will professionals across industries got to invest in re-skilling.
In fact, this is often already the case. Consistent with the Pew research facility, employers are increasingly insisting upon hiring “knowledge workers” who re-skill to make “original knowledge products.
