Advantages of self-paced online short courses

The online learning market is growing from strength to strength, projected to be valued at $350 billion by 2025. With the massive shift from the traditional learning model to online learning accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, this could be said to be a contributor to this growth. Online learning presents great study opportunities and learning options that suit the needs of the modern learner, like online short courses which are self-paced, for instance.

Offered over a short period of time, online short courses provide you with industry-specific skills and training. They’re a good way to upskill and revitalise your career, or to learn new skills in your field of interest.

It’s even more convenient when online short courses are self-paced, affording you the opportunity to take control of your learning journey and to have a personalised learning process, helping you get through a course’s curriculum at your own speed. Self-paced learning is ideal in today’s fast-paced world where everyone has a busy schedule and differing priorities.

Self-paced online courses accommodate different learning capacities

We’re all trying to juggle this, that, and the other, and sometimes, it can be overwhelming trying to do it all according to a timeline. Besides, not everything needs to be rushed through – like learning, because not everyone has the same capacity to learn. People have different educational needs and learning capacities, and this can be a great contributor to learning outcomes.

One type of learner may thrive in live lessons, able to understand everything as the lessons progress, but another type of learner may struggle to do the same and may be need of more time processing everything being taught. Self-paced learning is great because learning is not a one-size-fits-all.

Afterall, learning is a process whereby one acquires knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught. Until knowledge, or skills, are properly acquired, we could say learning hasn’t been achieved. Would it even be a lesson if there was barely a lesson you gained from it because you dashed through it trying to keep up with the rest of the class?

Advantages of self-paced online short courses

• You learn in your own time and from anywhere.
• You can have a flexible schedule and be able to balance life’s other demands with your studies.
• You’re not pressured to progress just because you don’t want to get left behind, even though you haven’t yet fully grasped some things.
• You run your own race instead of racing against the facilitator, classmates, and time.
• You become your ‘own boss’ when it comes to approaching your studies.

Time is precious and how you use it matters. Are you the kind of person to take things slow and steady or are you a rusher who’s always on to the next thing?

Self-paced course options offered by Digital Regenesys

Digital Regenesys, a provider of some of the best online courses and programmes, offers a wide range of online short courses in South Africa, accessible to anyone in the world, ranging from self-paced to live courses, and the advanced versions of them.  Some of these online courses have an advanced self-paced option.

• Machine Learning (with advanced option)
• Cybersecurity (with advanced option)
• Data Science (with advanced option)
• Coding (with advanced option)
• Artificial Intelligence (with advanced option)
• Digital Marketing (with advanced option)
• Professional Business Writing Skills
• Design Thinking
• Finance for Non-Financial Managers
• Project Management

Digital Regenesys’ online self-paced courses start from as little as R490. This is an affordable amount for high-quality education which will give you good grounding in whatever field of study. The self-paced advanced courses are priced at R1900,00.

The great thing about these online study courses is that they do not require you to have technical skills to be able to start your learning journey. They are for individuals at any level and from any background, so anyone can start learning to gain new skills. The advanced self-paced course versions, on the other hand, are designed for professionals in the respective fields of learning.

Facilitated by industry experts, and academics from top local and international institutions, Digital Regenesys’ online study courses can be a great skills enhancer as they are grounded in the realities of the new digital world. If you happen to be consumed and overwhelmed by several responsibilities, but still want to squeeze in studying because it’s one of your career goals, perhaps, you don’t have to stress about how you will juggle it all – simply pace yourself and make the most of your time. And that’s why self-paced online short courses are a good option.

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