There are many considerations involved, but it really comes down to these three things:

Expense – Migrating our courses and systems to Lifetime Access is a significant undertaking involving a complete overhaul of our LMS system, technical development, a restructuring of tuition, and the retirement of extension and time-based access options.

Fairness – Through this migration process, it’s imperative to us that we offer a smooth and favorable transition for our students and community, especially to those students who’ve purchased extension options on their course(s) previously. Lifetime Access is the same price as previous course extensions. Course tuition and benefits for new registrations moving forward have also been adjusted to be equivalent to the value.

Support – Lifetime Access will require more ongoing support from our educators and staff and an increase in website server space, which is why tuition on programs has also been adjusted with this structural shift.