Adults who go to college both online and off are sometimes referred to as nontraditional students. I am not sure whether that is an insult or a compliment. Maybe it is neither. . . maybe it just means that the student is not between the ages of 18 and 25. Adults choose to get their degrees at different points in life and for a variety of reasons.
The biggest problem for an adult going after a diploma is that they usually already have families or financial obligations that mean they can't simply drop everything and go to college on campus for four years to get a degree, no matter how much they would like to.
Adults are turning to adult education or distance learning in record numbers. Sometimes they only want to take a few courses or learn new skills that will help them to advance in their jobs. When this is the case, they often opt for getting certificates rather than degrees.
Some, however, may have dreamed of having a college degree all of their lives and may have just discovered that this dreamed-of degree can be achieved online, from the comfort of their homes and at a pace that they can live with.
Adults who opt for getting their degrees online have often been away from formal education for a number of years -- some for more years than others. They really aren't sure that they can even do what needs to be done. Some of them aren't even sure that they can learn at all.
These are some of the reasons that adults are turning in record numbers to online education or distance learning.
They can stick one toe in the pool of education and test the waters (and themselves) without risking public embarrassment if they fail. They very rarely fail.
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