Online Learning: Try It - accounting - Brief Article

California CPA, July, 2001

Can't seem to tear yourself away from the computer to take CPE courses? No problem--the Foundation's online learning program brings the classroom to you.

Kathleen Wright, Foundation instructor who teaches the online course, "California Tax Series Certificate Program," partcipated in an online course to experience the process from a student's perspective. She discovered that the degree of interaction between the instructor and participants is much greater and more challenging than in an ordinary seminar setting.

"At the end of the four-week session, I had read every word of material, understood the issues and was ready to call myself an expert on the course material," she says.

Wright encourages CPAs to give online learning a try and to share comments with online instructors. "It's an opportunity to be in on an emerging trend," says Wright.