An IWUOnline administration representative recently described essential traits that a new-to-online learning student should possess as including “discipline, determination and endurance, though not necessarily in that order.”

Such traits allow students to balance themselves, embracing freedom distance learning provides while avoiding falling behind. The discipline ensures projects are completed; determination lets adults juggle their professional responsibilities with their academic ones while remaining focused on their goals and not giving up; and endurance provides ability to successfully meet demanding coursework, even when life doesn’t yield to added pressure.

Even students who possess all discipline, determination, and endurance in world could be at risk of failing if they had to face their challenges alone. Students do not learn in an isolated bubble; they learn by surrounding themselves with others, they learn from their peers, their professors, from like-minded individuals and from their polar opposites.

In short, students learn best when they are part of a community, and that’s exactly what IWUOnline offers ─ a tightly knit community that overcomes geographical distances to forge spiritual and academic bonds.

Home schooling has been basis of society for thousands of years - long before schools came about. However, in today's society it can be difficult for parent's to maintain supervision of assignments that is needed for home schooling. This may become even more of an issue as a child gets into higher grades and parents are unfamiliar with curriculum or are working and do not have as much time to assist them.

INTERNET HOME SCHOOLING

A new addition to education, internet is now providing ability for parents to give their child an enhanced curriculum, control over education, and online support. This will all cost much less than private school at an average cost of $900 per year.

Older children can benefit from online teachers who are able to supervise work - a huge benefit for working or single parents. Many accredited Internet schools offer similar courses to those available in private schools.

Joel Turtel, who is author of "Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children," says that busy working parents can give their kids a quality, low-cost education at home using Internet. “K-12th grade Internet schools can take most of homeschooling burden off parent's backs.”

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