Learn at Your Convenience
Online and On-Demand Training: The Education of the Future is Available to You Now

By Jordan Taylor

You’d love to take advanced real estate or stock investing training, but you just can’t find the time to travel to a three-day comprehensive course. Now you can get that exact same training in your own home—or a hotel room, or anywhere else that’s convenient for you.

Wealth Intelligence Academy®, a leading provider of advanced real estate investing, stock trading, and other financial education, is now offering both online and on-demand programs. Kevin Shriner, the school’s director of education, says both distance learning methods are well-received by students.

“Today’s adult students need alternatives to the traditional classroom and the three-day training format,” Shriner says. “People with jobs, families, and other responsibilities are looking for a way to get the education they want and need, but to do it on their own schedule. Online and on-demand training provides that flexibility.”

Online training is live instruction held in a virtual classroom on a scheduled basis. Students go to the Wealth Intelligence Academy website and log onto their course for the visual presentation and call a conference line for the audio portion. Questions can be asked out loud or privately; homework is assigned and reviewed the following week; and students have the opportunity to practice the techniques between classes. Online classes typically run for six weeks and are held on the same day and time each week.

“Our online courses are taught by the same instructors who do our live three-day courses,” Shriner says. “We limit each class to 32 students, so each online student gets personal attention. In fact, over the life of the course, our online students typically get more personal attention and hand-holding than our live class students.”

On-demand training features the same content as the live training, but without the interaction. The advantage is that students can take the classes whenever it’s convenient, and stop and start as they choose. “On-demand training is an excellent way to prepare for a live class,” says Shriner.

A significant benefit to both training formats is that they can be done at the location of the student’s choice and no travel is required. Students who travel in the course of their work can take their training in hotel rooms anywhere in the world.

The convenience of online training in no way reduces the intensity of the Wealth Intelligence Academy programs, Shriner says. “Our online programs have the same content as our live programs and require the same amount of dedication and commitment,” he says. “This isn’t ‘lite education’—it’s the real thing. Our online students work hard and get the same, and sometimes even better, results as our live class students.” To assure superior technical quality, the school uses WebEx, an industry leader in web-based information and education delivery.

Shriner believes the online and on-demand training is the future of education. “As technology improves, it will be easier to do online courses than live trainings,” he says. “Online training will dominate the market.”


For more information about Wealth Intelligence Academy’s live and online training, visit www.wiacademy.com.

Sidebar:
Five Tips for Getting the Most Out of Online Training

1. Be sure you have the right equipment. Your computer should meet the specs of the training provider. In addition to Internet access, you’ll also need a landline.

2. Get comfortable with the delivery format and technology. Online training is modeled after traditional classes, but there are differences. Familiarize yourself with how the process works before the class actually begins.

3. Attend the orientation. Wealth Intelligence Academy requires students to participate in a comprehensive orientation so they are prepared for class.

4. Set up a learning place. When you sit down at the computer for your class, you need to be in a place free from noise and distractions, and with sufficient space for your computer and any other materials you may need.

5. Honor your commitment. Online training is as legitimate as classroom training; don’t be tempted to skip sessions just because they’re virtual instead of real-world, and insist that your family demonstrate the same respect for your efforts as they would if you were going to a traditional school.