Virtual Drive of America
-vs- Traditional Driver Education Programs

With other Parent Taught courses, driver education can be a very daunting and overwhelming experience.

They contain a stack of manuals for the parent and the student, videos and audiotapes. But wait, you still have to obtain state specific documents. In fact, the time requirement for the parent is about twice that of their student.

Virtual Drive of Colorado designed this computer based training course specifically for the state of Colorado.

Other parent taught courses are generic in nature and they direct you to find state information that is not included in their course. With Virtual Drive of Colorado, everything is included and the student and instructor will be guided from beginning to end. Valuable time preparing the lesson plan, deciphering state time requirements, locating additional resources or preparing activities for your student will not be needed.All of this has been done for you.

This means a parent can expect to spend approximately 2 hours on the computer preparing for the in-car training, 7 hours in the car with their student, and less than 1 hour supervising classroom tests.

There will be an additional 48 hours of supervised driving.

Virtual Drive of America-vs- Other Computer Courses

There are Driver Education products that are advertised as online computer courses.

While the text is presented on screen, the student must read it just as if it were in a textbook. Each page has a time requirement of 10 minutes even if you have completed the reading. Unlike Virtual Drive, there is no way to advance at your own pace.

The only advantage is that it is paperless and has automated grading. A few fancy animated graphics does not qualify as a true Computer Based Training course.

Computer Based Training (CBT), is a learning technique first developed in the early 80's by the airline industry.

CBT has migrated from the airline industry into mainstream business and educational training.

CBT allows the student to learn at his or her own pace and allows for remedial learning if needed.

Studies have shown that a classroom setting or simply reading volumes of information is not as effective as when the student is constantly stimulated with audio, animation and video learning techniques.

Virtual Drive of America-vs- Private Driver Education Courses

Private Driver Education Schools require a major commitment from the parent as well as the student.

The students are required to be in attendance for two hours each day, four days a week for four consecutive weeks. A student cannot miss more than three days or the entire course must be re-taken.

There is no flexibility and no consideration for the student's busy school schedule.

The in-car driver training requires a commitment of many Saturday's in addition to the classroom portion. The student will ride in the vehicle for up 14 hours while spending valuable time in the back seat as other students do the driving.

With Virtual Drive's Texas Driver Education Course, busy students and parents pick their own time and work driver education into their own schedules. Today's students aren't able to find three free weeks in a row. They need the flexibility and ease of use that Virtual Drive of Texas offers.