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What is Continuing Education?
Home » Careers » Continuing Education » What is Continuing Education?Posted by Your Guide on November 16, 2005 1:08 PM
Continuing education is a term for education of adults. It can involve everything from enrolling in a college or university for courses toward an advanced degree to non-vocational courses taken for personal advancement rather than college credits.
Continuing education courses may be offered by four-year colleges and universities, community colleges or extension schools. While continuing education sometimes involves going to traditional classrooms or computer laboratories, it increasingly is done via distance learning, which can include independent study, video or audio tapes, broadcast programming, and e-learning, the online or electronic form of distance education.
Continuing education courses include highly technical courses for professionals, as well as computer skills courses, art courses, basic literacy classes, English language skills, and preparation for a high school General Equivalency Diploma or GED.
Many times individuals assume the financial expense of continuing education, but it is more and more common for employers to offer tuition reimbursement benefits for their employees. Many companies also offer in-house training for their employees.
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