Find the right distance learning course in the home office: This is how you can identify optimal providers [+ checklist]

Working from home is becoming more and more important, and this also applies to Further Training. There are hundreds of distance learning courses and distance learning courses offered through distance learning. Those willing to learn are spoiled for choice Choice.

What are the goals of continuing education?

Thanks to digitization, it has never been easier to take responsibility for your own further education, also and especially in the home office. On the one hand, distance learning or distance learning offers a lot selection, but on the other hand it can also use the decision make more difficult. The optimal provider is the one that best suits your own specifications.

Before you start choosing the right offer and provider, everyone should clear do what he does with the Further Training want to achieve. The more intensively you deal with these and many more Ask employed in advance, the greater the probability of finding a further training course that exactly suits the individual requirements.

Checklist: Find the right training

• For example, is it a question of adapting knowledge to a specific subject in a short time, or does it come to the conclusion?
• Should the content be used privately, or should a professional advance be achieved?
• How important is the degree?
• Is, for example, an acknowledgment of participation by the provider, or should further education be prepared for a public or state degree, possibly also for an academic degree?
• Which topics and contents should be treated?
• How much time can be invested per week in continuing education and how long can this total go?
• Is there also the possibility to participate in attendance events at the place of residence or even from it, possibly also during the week or only at the weekend?
• With which learning materials do you want to learn predominantly - printed study letters, electronic written materials or preferably videos and online events, possibly also classroom instruction?
• What is the willingness to invest financially in the distance learning course?
• How important is the exchange with other students online or also real on-site?

Selection of suitable offers

Anyone who has dealt extensively with the questions above should have developed a pretty good idea of ​​what is appropriate for a further education. Now it is important to find offers that meet these requirements.

For this stand in Internet various databases and directories. Some of the criteria can often be entered in a search mask, while others require more research.

Decision for a provider

It is worthwhile to create a table with all possible offers as rows and the various personally important criteria as columns draw up and then fill in. In addition to the formal criteria, softer ones such as ratings and reviews on the Internet, gut feeling or friendliness can also be used Contact be included with the student advisory service.

Possible sources of information are the Internet, information material from the providers and questions to the student advisory service. Of course, this takes a lot of research, but in the end you will be more satisfied with the result.

By KO criterion to the right supplier

When the matrix is ​​completely filled, a good basis for the decision is provided. In the ideal case, there remains only one vendor who best meets the requirements.

Frequently, however, it will be the case that a number of potential remote schools or post-secondary schools are left, each of which satisfies particular requirements particularly well and others less well.

In the end, listen to the belly

Then it should be considered again, which criteria are how important and a list of priorities are set up.

In addition to all purely rational considerations, one should also listen to oneself and consider with what offer one feels most comfortable.