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Online Defensive Driving Course Material May Be Superior to In-Classroom Handbooks.When a driver has received a moving violation, the last thing on their
mind is the quality of the material that they will be studying in their
state approved online defensive driving course. They usually just want
to get through traffic school as quickly and as easily as possible, so
that they can get on with their lives and try to get that ticket
dismissed.One of the recent innovations that has come with the
web is the online defensive driving course. Students take this course
in place of the traditional classroom-taught traffic school class, and
receive the same certificate of completion that the other students get,
while working from the comfort of home.There are several
reasons why someone might choose to take an online defensive driving
course rather than going to the classroom. First is the convenience of
location. For some, the nearest traffic school is halfway across town.
Online schools allow them to work from their computers, and the
web-based providers give them the opportunity to go one better and work
from any Internet-enabled computer. That means the student can do some
of their coursework at home and some at the office, or at a university
computer lab, the public library, or even on a laptop at the local
coffee shop. Location is key for these students.Others
appreciate the convenience of time. Taking a state approved online
defensive driving course, depending on where the student lives, can be
an all-day process. But with the web providers, students are sometimes
permitted not only to work at any time of the day or night, but also to
come and go from the course as their schedule permits, without putting
in a minimum duration in order for the class session to count. That
means that if the phone rings, the student doesn't lose the ten minutes
they've already put in, nor do they need to ignore the call. It can be
very handy, especially in today's busy world!An often-unseen
benefit to taking traffic school online, though, is the convenience for
the instructors. Traffic schools are constantly updating their material
to include the latest laws and regulations, which can be numerous from
one year to the next. Just recently, a texting-while-driving law went
into effect in California. This law was not on the books last year, so
every traffic school in the state needs to address the change.For
an old-style classroom course, this modification could mean change
pages inserted into a printed handbook, getting the word out to each
instructor, and hoping that the information is passed along to
students. In an online course, one person can go in and make the change
so that all students see it at once. This gives the online students an
advantage over others, not only in having current information but in
knowing the latest laws to obey once they are back out on the road.
That, in turn, makes it less likely they'll be pulled over and need to
take, you guessed it, traffic school. |
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