Adult education could make you a better income. It’s a fact. The average lifetime income without higher education is $1,2 million. With a degree the lifetime income is about $2,1 million.
But how can I afford to go back to school when I’m need to make money every day and support a family and pay for my house? No problem!
Far too often corporate management and human resource departments confuse these two types of training programs. While the objectives of both may be similar, the path that they each take is dramatically different.
Corporate eLearning is focused on training and not necessarily education. The goal of eLearning is to transfer knowledge to the user in the most efficient way possible (i.e., performance improvement).
Adult education, on the other hand is not always performance based. At the low end, it serves to bring up the bottom of the company staff. Teaching basics like reading, writing and arithmetic. It might serve as education on introducing basic concepts on computer use, or a how-to for computer tools like Excel or Word. The goal of most adult education is not necessarily proficiency but basic knowledge.
If you are contemplating career change, chances are you will have some involvement with adult education, whether it’s taking a short course to expand your current skills or studying to gain a qualification in a new field. However, many adults are concerned about going back to school because they had bad experiences the first time round.
Adult education has progressed rapidly with advances in technology and so there are many different ways in which adults can gain additional skills. It is possible to attend a college either full-time or part-time, to complete an entire course by distance learning or to reach your goal using a combination of both methods. Computer assisted learning has made it possible for students to undertake a wide range of tasks independently as well as in a classroom with a teacher present.
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