Why is is so easy to take a college online course?

We have talked in some articles that you can find in this same website about the issue on the Internet growth and the spreading of online and virtual courses and programs. There are several topics being taught, and thousands of possibilities from which you can choose to take a course, practically in any subject you can think of. From nursing degree online, to accounting courses, from psychology to medicine; anything you can think of is nowadays available through the Internet. Requirements? Quite none, as there is still not a legal structure to support standards of quality. This is why you just need to appoint and afford the money asked for: anything else, by now, is not required. As we said, there are no legal legislations yet to form a solid structure that states a minimum quality required for teachers of courses. Even more, there is still very few access to Internet in the whole world (just to think it through: the United States of America concentrate the 95 per cent of people with internet access in all the world. From the other 5 per cent, three per cent is for Europe, 1.5 for South America, and the rest for Asia and Africa. They are chilling figures, but still a proof that Internet is not so democratic as they want everyone to believe. There were some projects that we have mentioned before, and that tried to set up some rules on access to the Internet and digital alphabetization: The Lisboa Council in 2000, the Stockholm Council in 2001, and the Barcelona Council in 2002. Online college courses are still not ruled thoroughly but some tries are begining to grow. In the cited article, we mentioned the words of a Mexican director, who expressed concern on this issue: there are lots of universities out there offering online college courses, but we don’t know for sure which there are standards are, and what teachers give the courses there. That is why a legislation body is urgently needed. So to answer our first question, it is clear to make a point: it is very easy to appoint to online college courses because we still don’t have legal rules that put through requirements to the students. By now, you are not required to have any previous formation. Moreover, there is no restriction on the topics possibly teachable via online. I personally think, as I have said before, that some subjects are not worthwhile to be learnt through the Internet, for instance nursing or psychology. Whether it may result easy to attend it or not is another thing, but you can be sure that, at least by now, when wanting to appoint to a course, you won’t be required a thing: it is a fine new business, and it will continue growing until a legal regulation put some brakes to it. There is a responsibility that should come from the State, or from educational institutions, to ask for certain levels of quality regarding contents and learning. If not, almost anyone with a certain structure will put online a course to be given to students. Accreditation is still very easy to get, and this is quite a big problem.