An increasingly competitive job market means that higher education is essential for career prospects. While the National Center of Education Statistics reports that career-oriented enrollments in colleges and universities have reached a record 18.4 million this year, online degrees are quickly becoming a tenable alternative.
A new website operated by the government of North Carolina, will provide residents with a resource that consolidates all of the state's online education resources into one database, the Shelby Star reports.
The site includes information about classes appropriate for everybody from kindergarteners to seniors with free time to professionals seeking to expand their career options by continuing education.
"If we have a student who is taking online courses and maybe it doesn't work well with their schedule, they could go on the [internet] and see if it is being offered at another community college" says, Margo Green, marketing coordinator at the Cleveland Community College (CCC).
She added, "This is the direction more and more folks are headed. You can take the class anytime, anywhere."
The dean of enrollment management at CCC, Andy Gardner, said that "more than half of the 2,512 students at the school are taking at least one online class."
Nationally, more than 20 percent of all higher education students took at least one online course in the fall of 2007, according to the professional organization Sloan Consortium.
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