I recently saw in a yahoo article that the biggest growth demographic for online education was women, especially women studying for or completing degrees for work in the technology industry. In a way this didn’t surprise me. Traditional tech schools have always been dominated by men. As much as I hate to make stereotypical calls, the shoe fits here, traditional tech schools are dominated by socially inept men that rarely have a clue as what to do with a real woman, much less how to interact with one in person. Online though, everyone starts out equal.
Without the gender bias along with forced and socially uncomfortable interaction, online tech schools may be the wave of the future for women trying to get into the technology field. In my opinion the best possible way to learn about technology is actively using the latest and greatest available to you. This is often times not possible in major universities. They take years to develop a curriculum and invest money following the technological plan developed along the way and then stick to it. This sort of inflexibility is not present in schools run in the evolving technological world.
In the end it is still up to the individual student to figure out what is right for them and should be researched thoroughly before putting any money into it.
