Why should you get an online degree in health care? We help you sort through all the information by listing the top reasons below.

1. You’ll get used to using technology.

Not tech-savvy? A degree in health care from one of the top online schools can be a great introduction to the computer skills you’ll need on the job. Advancing health care and record-keeping technology means you should know your way around a computer before you apply for a job.

2. Network nationwide with other health care professionals.

One of the benefits of distance education is the ability to network with professors and peers across the country and around the world. Earn your health care degree and learn more about how other students look at training and the eventual job search from Bangor, Maine to San Diego, California.

3. Gain clinical experience while you study.

Many health care professions require significant clinical experience in addition to classroom study. One of the benefits of online education in health care is the flexibility you have to attend classes when you choose while you gain necessary clinical experience through internships or volunteer opportunities. Online courses make it possible for you to secure an entry-level job in the health care field and explore your chosen career while you attend school for an associate’s or bachelor’s degree.

4. Make a career switch without disrupting your income.

Health care careers are growing, offering job opportunities for workers in professions hard hit by changes in the labor market. If you want to re-train for a field that offers stable future employment opportunities — but can’t afford to quit your current job to do it — online health care degrees offer you the flexibility you need to train for a new career.

5. Land a booming health care career.

Medical assistants, skin-care specialists, physical therapist assistants, pharmacy technicians, dental hygienists, and mental health counselors are just a few of the careers predicted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to experience growth between 2008 and 2018.

Union members who are looking to earn their bachelors degree online will have a unique opportunity to get their education. Labor unions are joining to offer distance learning opportunities to its members.
The A.F.L.-C.I.O., the main umbrella group for the nation’s labor unions, announced on Thursday that it was joining with the National Labor College and the Princeton Review to create an online college for the federation’s 11.5 million members and their families.
The college will be the first and only accredited degree-granting online institution devoted exclusively to educating union members. It plans to begin offering courses this fall, including ones on criminal justice, education, business and allied health sciences.
“We’re working on a survey to send out to the A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s members to find out what they’d … | Read the rest of this entry »

No more must potential law students send out a dozen lengthy and expensive law school applications and wait with bated breath for an opportunity to move across the country, uproot their families, give up their jobs and endure 80-hour weeks full of law classes, study groups and exams. Now, future lawyers need go no further than their computer to gain a fully accredited law degree and join the legal ranks. The South Florida Business Journal reports:
Distance education becomes instant learning. Concord Law School, created in 1998 as the country’s first virtual law school, may rock the foundations of bricks and mortar legal education fortresses. Concord thinks it can radically change the way law is learned. Its strategy harkens back to the pre-bricks-and-mortar era, when the … | Read the rest of this entry »

Online learning isn’t just a matter of email and chat rooms. Most e-schools require students to download their software to enable them to easily access class assignments and turn in homework. It’s this software that is causing a ruckus in the legal system:
Blackboard-the company responsible for the software many institutions use to manage their online education courses-announced that it had been awarded a U.S. patent for E-learning technology. The same day, the company filed a patent-infringement suit against Desire2Learn, one of its primary competitors. For the first time on a major level, the potential conflicts of E-learning’s two main influences clashed, the freedom-of-ideas model of higher education facing off against the intellectual property practices of the tech industry.

The two sides are scheduled to meet with … | Read the rest of this entry »