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Virtual Drive of Minnesota -vs- Other Parent Taught Courses
Virtual Drive of Minnesota -vs- the Interactive CD ROM
Virtual Drive of Minnesota -vs- Private Driver Education Schools

VIRTUAL DRIVE of Minnesota -vs- OTHER PARENT TAUGHT DRIVER EDUCATION COURSES

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 Minnesota designed this computer based training course specifically for the state of Minnesota. 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 Minnesota, 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.

COMPUTER BASED TRAINING (CBT) -vs- INTERACTIVE CD ROM

There are Driver Education products that are advertised as interactive CD ROM'S. While the text is presented on screen, the student must read it just as if it were in a textbook. The only advantage an Interactive CD ROM has over manuals, is that it is paperless and has automated grading. A few fancy animated graphics does not qualify as a true Computer Based Training course. In addition, the navigation on most is very hard to understand.

Computer Based Training, or 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. This learning approach has many benefits:

Retention of the material is far greater, and due to the true interactivity, students are less distracted than in traditional classroom environments.

CBT allows the student to learn at his or her own pace and allows for remedial learning for those with lower learning abilities.

Parents will be able to provide an extremely user friendly and effective Driver Education program to their child in a home environment.

Currently parents/guardians must study the volumes of information prior to training and then attempt to teach their child the course using up to three different sources. With the electronic (CBT) method, everything is included on the CD-ROM, including video clips of important information. Parents do not have to turn into academic professors, they will only have to monitor the students progress during the 32 hour classroom portion of the training and then use the easy to understand 7 lesson module to train the student during the in-car portion.

The electronic version of Virtual Drive's Minnesota Driver Education allows the student to become interactive with the learning process, thereby creating a better learning environment. 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 Minnesota -vs- PRIVATE DRIVER EDUCATION SCHOOLS

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. If a student misses a day of classroom attendance, that day must be made up at a specified time, sometimes up to three weeks from the day the student missed. 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 such as sports, cheerleading or any other outside school activity.

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 Minnesota 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 Minnesota offers.