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Had the show been produced decade and a half later, a follow-up skit about the convenience of online education could have been a real hit. Flexible--great at all hours of the night! Convenient--never leave your creepy van or hidey-hole! In a dead-end career? Enroll in an online degree program and get career training in as little as 15 months!
Online Degree Programs Expand Your Options
Since the late 1980s since the show was on, technology has changed education. No doubt the mass murderer would have been surprised and impressed by the number of online career training options and perhaps taken a new direction. Criminal justice corrections? Forensic psychology? Mortuary science? All are available online.
Even if your current career is a little more socially acceptable than killing people, you're due for a career change if you've even quietly thought, "What am I doing with my life?" even once.
Online education can help you find a new direction in five ways that traditional education never could.
1. Choice
How many colleges or universities do you have in your community? And how many classes do they have? Whatever that number, multiple it by 100. That's exactly what online education has done for learning communities worldwide.
If you thought you could never be a phlebotomist or a psychologist or a private investigator because the career training wasn't offered wherever you've been hiding, you're wrong. Online education can provide you with the knowledge and career training so you can still become whatever you dreamed you would be.
2. Flexibility
How many reasons for not going to school have you come up with that start with "I can't"? "I can't go to school because killing kicks up during the holiday season, which cuts into both semesters," or "I can't take classes when I only have four spare hours during the day when I'm not being surveilled."
Many online schools don't have traditional semesters. Classes start throughout the year, and you typically don't have to wait too long until the next one begins. The days of waiting one or two years at a university for a required class to finally be offered are over.
3. Convenience
You chose your current occupation for a reason. Maybe you do your best work at night or you hate working weekends or can't stand to be around breathing people. Whatever your lifestyle, online education can accommodate you.
4. Results in Less Time
If you're the type of person who demands results and likes to see those results happen quickly, the delivery of online education could give you more educational satisfaction than you've ever experienced. Many classes include online quizzes and tests that are scored immediately. Courses may also include a chat component where you can interrogate your professor and classmates to find information you can use.
5. Distractions
Campus learning offers lots of distractions that can take you away from your top priority--earning your degree. When you learn from the safety of your own home, you won't have to miss another lecture because the young woman in the third row reminds you of your mother. The library? No need to go. Lots of online schools have online reference librarians available to help students find the information they need through online research libraries and databases.
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