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Online College Courses Where variety is the spice of life With the evolution of Internet technology it is possible to do everything online. One can plan vacations and make the travel and hotel reservations. One can play blackjack or poker with real money. One can even get an education through online college courses. The last few years have seen a proliferation of online college courses. The numbers are in tens of thousands and growing. And there are courses of all types. At the top are courses that offer online degrees. These courses would run for the same period that conventional degree courses would run and have similar assessment procedures. There would be regular interaction with instructors and other students. At the bottom are single modules without any interaction, or assessment or certificates. And there are plenty of formats in between. Online courses have a greater variety. This has perhaps been made possible by the greater reach of online courses through the Internet. Say a minimum of ten students is required for a course. A conventional college must have the ten people within the same town, whereas the online college can pick up ten students from anywhere in the world. The non-interactive modular courses can enjoy even greater variety because once prepared they can lie on the Internet for ages, waiting to be downloaded. Online college courses cater to many different types of consumers. There are those who want to get a bachelor or master's degree to further their employment opportunities. There are professionals who want to update their knowledge on a particular aspect of their work. There are housewives who want to develop vocational skills so that they can start a small home business. There are retired persons who want to enhance their knowledge in an area of interest.