College to invite online education community to interactive open house

College to invite online education community to interactive open house

Authorities at ECPI College of Technology have announced that their online education sector will be participating in the school's "campus discovery day" open house that will be held from January 9 through 21.

Attendees, who will participate through live chat and webcast sessions, can speak with the faculty and explore career paths in the fields of business, technology, criminal justice and healthcare. This will be the first time that potential online students will have access to the school's open house.

ECPI has an extensive online health sciences department that allow students to specialize in healthcare administration, dental assisting and registered nursing

Labor Department analysts predict that by 2012, a total of 1 million nurses will be needed to care for the aging population, and some 587,000 new nursing jobs will be created nationwide.

Online training in the healthcare field is growing by nearly 20 percent, making it the fastest growing industry in the online education sector.