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No travel is involved with online education, so students with transportation concerns can take classes easily. For example:

 If you live in a rural area and have to drive in wintry weather, commuting even 20 minutes to the local community college can become a dangerous ordeal in February. Contrast that to staying warm and toasty at home while you complete coursework. And you pay less in fuel, parking, and maintenance on a vehicle to boot.

 What if you have a medical condition that makes driving impossible and you’re reliant on others for transportation? Again, if you study online, you’re completely independent and not in need of travel assistance.

 Not everyone lives where buses and trains can easily transport them to the local college. Online education cancels the need to find and fund private transportation or to hitch a ride with strangers.

 If you carry this a little further, you can see that online education opens the possibility to take classes from anywhere in the world. This may seem kind of silly to consider, but you can live in Iowa and take a class from a university in California with no travel costs incurred. In one university class coauthor Susan taught, she had learners log in from Great Britain, Korea, and Dubai as well as North America.