Today's high-paced world has made people busier and less willing to commit their time to a traditional classroom degree program. As a result, online schooling opportunities outside of a university campus and school building have begun booming in popularity. Imagine getting the same educational courses for less money and from the comfort of your home. Sounds appealing, right? There are online schooling programs designed to be affordable and flexible enough to fit any interested student's busy schedule.

If you have ever studied alone, you will most likely have had the urge to procrastinate, suffered with a short attention span, and experienced spells of complete boredom. The result of such an experience was perhaps a low grade on the assignment or class project. If these are the habits that present themselves when you are working alone and away from classmates and teachers, then you might want to think twice about online schooling, or at the very least develop/learn to avoid these personality traits.

More and more traditional institutions have started offering online learning, but it's a trend that still attracts a lot of flak. Professors complain that incorporating online tools takes too much work. Employers worry about the caliber of accomplishment represented by an online degree. Students fear that a computer could not engage them as much as a classroom.