The problem with the Tech Schools is that they teach you how to use a technology, such as how to program in Java, and how to use network routers, and use the Cisco IOS switches. What happens when that technology no longer exists, and the new programming language becomes something as distant to you as Prolog might be. What then? You have to go back to school. Going to a University or College is definitely recommended because it teaches you how to learn, independently from everything else. So when that new technology comes up, you will be raking in $100K a year because you are 1 of a handful of people that know that new technology.
I had the same issue when I went back to the University. When in high school, I took math courses, and was pretty good at it, I was in the highest math courses my high school offered, which was Calculus at the time. When I got out of high school, I went to the Marine Corps for four years, and I felt like I had lost a lot of what I had learned.
When I went back, I went to University of Wisconsin - Marathon County, and they offered the ALEKS program, which is excellent for someone who already learned the material, but learned it years ago. I became a Math tutor, and recommended it to everyone who was a returning student to college.
ALEKS is a Math Learning Program that is done completely online, and you take an assessment of what you know and don't know. The website for the ALEKS program is found here at aleks.com. The stuff that you know becomes part of your "Pie", and the sections you need work on still you can take by clicking on a link. It gives you reading materials online, and then a sample problem, and then 5 problems on the material. Once you pass the 5 problems you can continue onto the next part of your pie, and you continue until your "Pie" is completed, and you are done with the course.
Seeing the rules again refreshed my memory, and working on the problems was quick enough, yet long enough to teach my brain once again how to do Algebra problems. I finished the course a month and a half early, and don't regret it.
Go to Aleks.com, they have a trial offer for 24 hours where you can try it out for free. If you like it, then you need to purchase a subscription.
I thought it was worth it, and many people that I recommended it to also enjoy it.
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The problem with the Tech Schools is that they teach you how to use a technology, such as how to program in Java, and how to use network routers, and use the Cisco IOS switches. What happens when that technology no longer exists, and the new programming language becomes something as distant to you as Prolog might be. What then? You have to go back to school. Going to a University or College is definitely recommended because it teaches you how to learn, independently from everything else. So when that new technology comes up, you will be raking in $100K a year because you are 1 of a handful of people that know that new technology.
I had the same issue when I went back to the University. When in high school, I took math courses, and was pretty good at it, I was in the highest math courses my high school offered, which was Calculus at the time. When I got out of high school, I went to the Marine Corps for four years, and I felt like I had lost a lot of what I had learned.
When I went back, I went to University of Wisconsin - Marathon County, and they offered the ALEKS program, which is excellent for someone who already learned the material, but learned it years ago. I became a Math tutor, and recommended it to everyone who was a returning student to college.
ALEKS is a Math Learning Program that is done completely online, and you take an assessment of what you know and don't know. The website for the ALEKS program is found here at aleks.com. The stuff that you know becomes part of your "Pie", and the sections you need work on still you can take by clicking on a link. It gives you reading materials online, and then a sample problem, and then 5 problems on the material. Once you pass the 5 problems you can continue onto the next part of your pie, and you continue until your "Pie" is completed, and you are done with the course.
Seeing the rules again refreshed my memory, and working on the problems was quick enough, yet long enough to teach my brain once again how to do Algebra problems. I finished the course a month and a half early, and don't regret it.
Go to Aleks.com, they have a trial offer for 24 hours where you can try it out for free. If you like it, then you need to purchase a subscription.
I thought it was worth it, and many people that I recommended it to also enjoy it.