ONLINE schools are one of the easiest ways to get a degree. Some courses offered in online schools do not necessarily make you have a degree but they can enhance your knowledge of the field of your interest. The advantage of online schools is that they offer only minimal tuition because they do not have any laboratory or uniform fees to collect from. Another hidden benefit from enrolling in an online school is that the student does not anymore spend for boarding as well as meals whenever he or she is in the school campus plus transportation to the school and back home.

If you’re not sure that an online school is accredited, then better enroll in the online extension of a reputable university. Don’t laugh because getting into these universities can still be tough. You have to pass the online entrance exam first just like what they do in a regular college. This is to make sure that the prestige of that university is not tarnished and all of its students will graduate with flying dignity. Tuition in these university extension online programs can still be costly but not as costly if you’re enrolled in eight semesters at the university’s physical campus itself. But that’s already okay because your employment will already be assured since naturally any employer in America will always be impressed if it is marked in your resume that you’re a graduate of a prestigious university albeit it is just its online or correspondence extension. And just like its physical counterpart, an online extension program is also good for four academic years. Or you may want to enroll in an online school which is just located in your state to be sure of its credibility. You must visit the physical office of the online school and check with your state’s Department of Education about the background and other pertinent information regarding the school’s reputation. You may want to check of the financial status of the school or if it is involved in some legal entanglement. This is to ensure that you’ll not be enrolled in a bogus school or your eight academic semesters will just go down the drain. The online school must also have qualified instructors. This you can check too at your state’s Department of Education. And lastly, if you know someone who has just graduated from a particular online school, ask him or her how the school’s curriculum checks out and whether that particular person has been successful searching for a job reflecting the online education received in his or her resume.

Online schools worldwide account for an annual income of over a whooping 38 billion euros. Here in the United States, there are 1.9 million students enrolled in online schools every year. Among the platforms used in an online school are webcasts, smart phones, MP3 players, web fora, chat, email, blogs, wiki sites, games and simulations. Online schools are also advantageous to people who are disabled. So enroll in an online school today.

While developed countries in the world have competed with each other to this online education, third world countries remain to be logging behind this technology of the 21st century. Colleges and universities seem to be not ready for this new trend in learning. Although the information superhighway has already reached to these countries but maybe the millions of dollars that maybe used to put up the whole operations seems to be the problems. That is why they prefer to maintain the status quo of their respective curriculum’s. Although they have also envision to follow the footsteps of universities in developed countries but the lack of enough funding to support the launching of the whole program is still a dilemma.

Many young kids in the third world countries have been clamoring for the government to help put up the online schools to be at par with other nations in this technology but the government is not ready for this development. This is the main problem that the government is facing right now, saying they cannot compete with online universities of the world because they are not yet ready. As a result, many wealthy families who can afford to enroll abroad have been going out of their country to study in the US or in Europe. But there were only a minimal of the whole population of the young genre who wish to enroll online schools. Almost 90 percent of young students in third world countries cannot also study abroad because of lack of capacity.

In the Philippines, which is considered to be among the third world countries which log behind in online education, there is still a great problem among school owners. The school owners, the Department of Education has still to give priority to other concerns like lack of chairs and lack of school buildings. Many are still having classes under the shade of trees due to the lack of classrooms in the hinterland barangays.

But local experts in this country said the government’s allegedly corrupt officials seem to be one of the reasons of the slow pace of development the country is experiencing. Dirty politics has also haunted many politicians from focusing their attention to develop more programs on education – believing that education is the best weapon the Filipino should have if the country wants to move forward. For this time, experts say online education is not really a top priority because the country is still in trouble in as far as economic development is concerned.

At this moment, the government is still hoping the private sector to rally behind in the young Filipinos quest to update traditional schools by way of implementing online schools, whereby many students now prefer to enroll especially in Metro Manila and other key cities of the country where traffic jams is already a problem. The students believe that online schools can help them remain in the school’s learning process by way of the new method of learning and that thru online education.

However, there is a very low response from the private sector and private institutions to help the government implement online education programs and compete with the world.

One thing is certain here education of the young minds would still go on despite having the old system of education in the four cornered rooms.

There are now growing discussions all over the globe regarding the explosive rise of online degree courses, creating a scenario than the percentage of students enrolled in online school are increasing. The leaders of the four-corner study or what others call lecture halls. The debates are also high whether this explosive growth in online education may pose danger on traditional education inside the classrooms. However, the ever growing online education industry may pose danger or not on four-cornered classrooms, the study is still ongoing. Experts are now trying to convince many traditional schools that this scenario of virtual seats education online are at par because of the wide range back up support by the worldwide web.

A study conducted this year showed that the online education in universities has increased twenty-fold, a very explosive growth of 30 percent each year. In fact, a doctor from a college in Massachusetts State College was quoted by a recent report revealing that over three million students were even enrolled in one online class. Although the figure was amazing but since online education is an open education in the information superhighway, the figure maybe possible but that is still to be verified if the statements of the said doctor were true.

In Michigan, authorities are now studying options to make high school already an online education to minimize budget deficits. Authorities believe online education in high school is much lower than the subsidized education programs of the local governments in Michigan.

Meanwhile in other countries, debates as to which is which commands greater acceptability in the world in the near future. With the increasing trend now of many universities opening doors to online education, the possibility of depleted institutions may pose outright danger in the explosion now being discovered by many leading universities in the United States. Whether classroom instruction remains to be a viable tool for good education in the future remains to be seen.

But believers of traditional learning institutions are skeptics of the explosion recently revealed by the Massachusetts doctor saying that the four-corner classrooms is still the best institutions for learning all over the globe despite the threats posed by online education.

While leading universities are also troubled by the recent revelation, only a few of the universities in third-world countries are giving their reactions because majority still follow the old and traditional classroom instruction method. They are not, in anyway, affected by the revelation of a certain doctor in the US of the reported explosion of enrollees with over three million students enrolled in just one online class.