Online education catches a bad rap sometimes, mostly though it’s undeserved, as with anything else you do need to be careful where you’re getting your education from and how much you’re spending for it. These concerns are universal for all products and services, online or not, and are true for all forms of education. Think of how many people over spend on private colleges ranked below a much cheaper state school. Businesses have a love of online courses though because they help their employees do something like go online to get a Six Sigma Green Belt. As a point of clarity Six Sigma is a managerial process and philosophy for reducing the amount of defects, it uses a belt system like martial arts to denote the different levels of mastery. An online Six Sigma Green Belt does just as much good for someone seeking one as one given in a physical setting.
Businesses like online training because it makes it easier for them to have educated and prepared personnel on staff. It can be hard to find a way to get everyone into a class room setting at the same time; it’s also hard to arrange to have people come in to provide the training. Having good teachers is important to the process, and just pushing things off onto just management staff can lead to rather poor education. An online Six Sigma Green Belt, or really any rank along the six sigma system is much easier for a business to arrange, they can set up a contract with an online program and then know that their employees are getting education from people who are teaching the right method correctly, and that the employees aren’t signing up for courses in places without real accreditation.
Leaving it up to your staff to handle on their own can be a bit scary, that’s the advantage of online courses and accreditation. Despite the fact that some people think less of online education, in many ways it’s very beneficial beyond just convenience. An online course can be standardized much more easily across a national or even international company (or even just a regional one) to provide standardized training. In those circumstances an online Six Sigma Green Belt is more meaningful than one someone pursues on their own. The education should be rather standardized but you will run into differences and even poor teachers if you’re looking for local options only. As much as people like to deride things on the internet for basically being new, there are real advantages especially in business education.
