We Have Nearly 100% Completion Rate in Our Online Training Programs.

While studies show that fewer than 20% of participants in online training programs successfully complete them, we’re proud to achieve a near 100% completion rate. Even widely-recognized training programs such as Google’s Data Analytics Certificate training have a less than 10% completion rate.

For those of you who’ve struggled with other online programs, you know how difficult it can be to stay on track.

Unfortunately, most online training programs have earned a poor reputation because they simply don’t work for most people. Reasons are many, some of which include:

Lack of Proper Preparation, Accountability, and Support

• Insufficient Assessment: Most online training programs fail to assess your interest, aptitude, and perseverance before diving into training. Without this, it’s hard to know if the program is the right fit for you.

• Missing Foundational Training: Learning is like climbing a staircase—each step should build on the previous one. Yet, many programs neglect to evaluate whether you need additional foundational training, making it difficult to impossible to progress to more advanced topics.

• Lack of Engagement: Most online programs are passive, offering long, boring lectures, with little to no interaction or guidance. This makes it difficult to stay engaged and retain information.

• Hands-On Application is Missing: Without real-world application, the material can feel abstract and irrelevant. The lack of practical, job-related exercises means that many students can’t connect what they’re learning to actual career skills.

• Mismatched Difficulty Levels: Many training programs are either too easy (leading to boredom) or too difficult (resulting in frustration). This mismatch makes it hard to stay motivated.

The Result? Over 80% Of Learners Typically Drop Out.

At NCLab, we take a different approach. We’ve designed our online training programs to address these challenges and ensure that our learners stay engaged, supported, and equipped for success—ultimately helping them finish their training and step into their careers with confidence.

Let’s compare training approaches and the results they produce.

ENGAGING GAMIFIED LEARNING versus INDEPENDENT LEARNING

At NCLab, you’re taught by an engaging Artificial Intelligence (AI) teaching platform that provides you bite-sized knowledge that is immediately followed by gamified mini projects, during which the platform provides you realtime assistance in the form of in-context help, hints, templates, and yes, best practices. Our trainees love the fact that the platform is always there interacting with them and they’re never left alone to do assignments, no matter what time of day they’re working. 

SKILLS-BASED TRAINING versus KNOWLEDGE-BASED TRAINING

Close to 100% of job openings require work experience, so if your objective is to get a job at the end of your training, it’s the SKILLS that you acquire during your training that are key. After all, as an example, employers hire Data Analysts for their ability to perform Data Analyst work (which is a SKILL), not their awareness of the different Data Analyst tools available to perform Data Analyst work (which is KNOWLEDGE). 

NCLab’s competency-based training is unique in the way it makes you knowledgeable AND skilled, by requiring you to successfully complete hundreds of gamified AI-tutored mini projects that confirm your SKILLS in applying the knowledge that you have acquired. No other online training programs follows a similar approach because it takes hundreds of hours to develop every hour of training.

More About NCLab’s Training

NCLab’s primary mission is to get people who have the ability and desire to grow into great careers. To accomplish that, NCLab:

• Makes sure you can learn and apply new knowledge before you enroll;
• Provides you foundational training, if needed, before you start your primary training;
• Provides you with engaging gamified hands-on work throughout your training to make you job-ready;
• Provides you realtime context-specific help, hints, templates, and best practices;
• Prepares you to take industry-recognized certifications.

The vast majority of other online training programs don’t concern themselves with these needs.

Let’s look closer at each of NCLab’s activities and how they ensure your success.

Applicant Screening

At NCLab, we use a proprietary detailed Career Readiness Assessment that measures your ability to absorb new knowledge and make use of it to solve problems, while also measuring your passion for learning and your perseverance. By successfully completing the assessment, you confirm that you have what it takes to both complete our training and get a great job.  

The vast majority of other online training programs, on the other hand, don’t screen you; instead, they simply enroll you and take no responsibility for helping you determine whether the training is right for you. 

Foundational Skills

You have a different background than other people and, despite your level of formal education, you often have to take some remedial training. After all, training is much like scaffolding and, without a solid foundation, even learning basic concepts is difficult or often not possible. At NCLab, we provide you foundational training (e.g. workplace math) if it is needed, at no additional cost, so as to ensure that you will be able to more easily complete your training and apply what you learn.

The vast majority of other online training programs, on the other hand, simply specify prerequisites that you often don’t have or need refreshing, and when you fail to complete their training, it is attributed to your inadequate preparedness for the training.

Competency-Based Training

NCLab uses a competency-based learn-by-doing approach to teaching that trainees love. There is no such equivalent training that we are aware in other online career training programs.

Let’s look closer at how competency-based training is accomplished at NCLab:

• You have to make use of each new concept to confirm your ability to apply it;
• The instructor role is performed by an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based teaching platform that covers every subject, not just those that an instructor chooses to cover or remembers to cover;
• Our engaging AI-based teaching platform helps you with each gamified assignment, overseeing your work and providing you realtime context-specific help, hints, templates, and best practices that we have accumulated over years of helping trainees;
• When you complete your training, you know it all without the need for a final exam.

Industry-Recognized Certifications

While employers place value on industry-recognized certifications and we at NCLab prepare you for them (including ACT’s Workkeys Applied Math and NCRC, TOSA, CompTIA Data+, and The Python Institute’s PCEP, PCAP, and PCAD), passing a certification exam should not be a goal in itself, since taking an exam is quite different from being job-ready. Job readiness is about having skills and that can only take place with work experience that NCLab training programs provide.

On another note, the vast majority of online training programs ignore industry-recognized certifications and issue you their own certifications, which have questionable value:

“A Coursera certificate alone is unlikely to land you a job.”

— http://resumeworded.com/coursera-certificates-resume-key-advice 

What Our Trainees Think Of Our Training

Following are the results of a recent survey of trainees who were one and a half months into their training. It makes it clear why almost everyone taking NCLab’s training completes it. 

Question 1: The three pillars of NCLab training are independent self-paced coursework, academic advice, and technical support. How well does this training method work for you overall? 1 = It doesn’t work for me at all. 2 = It does not work very well for me. 3 = I am not sure. 4 = it works quite well for me. 5 = I love it.

Averaged Response:

• 4.7 (Automation Technician Training)
• 4.7 (Data Analyst Training Program)
• 4.6 (Python Developer Training Program)

Question 2: NCLab training involves quite a bit of independent hands-on practice. How would you rate the importance of independent hands-on practice for you personally? 1 = I don’t need hands-on practice to learn. 2 = I would be OK with less hands-on practice. 3 = I am not sure. 4 = hands-on practice is quite important for me. 5 = hands-on practice is extremely important for me.

Averaged Response:

• 4.7 (Automation Technician Training)
• 4.8 (Data Analyst Training Program)
• 4.3 (Python Developer Training Program)

Question 3: If you decide to continue your training with NCLab, a lot of hard work lies ahead. Are you ready to make the commitment? 1 = no. 2 = probably not. 3 = I am not sure. 4 = probably. 5 = absolutely.

Averaged Response:

• 4.6 (Automation Technician Training)
• 4.9 (Data Analyst Training Program)
• 4.8 (Python Developer Training Program)

Beyond the numeric answers to the survey questions, some people chose to also make written comments, many of which further explain why our approach to training works so well.

Added Comments

• I prefer being self-paced, as I can complete lessons around my schedule. If I require extra assistance, there are resources available to me.
• I like that I do not have to do the course at a specific time or day because it allows me to work around my other responsibilities.
• I love self-paced learning. I am able to go as fast or as slow as life circumstances dictate at that time. I don’t have to attach myself to the speed of others, I can just go at my own pace for my own learning needs.
• I love the freedom to work on the course around my schedule. I don’t think I would be able to do a certificate program like this otherwise.
• There’s nothing I dislike about independent self-paced learning.
• I like that if I’m in a section where I’m understanding the material easily, I can move ahead instead of having to wait.  I can’t really think of a downside to this way of learning.
• I like that the class allows me to work around my own schedule!
• I can go through material I am familiar with quickly.
• I’m able to do it whenever. It also allows me to progress in a way such that I’m comfortable. Both are pluses. 
• I really like to work at my own pace.
• I prefer working at my own pace. I feel like it sets me up for success.
• I like that it gives me the freedom to work on stuff when I would like to, though I like the way my academic advisor holds me accountable.
• Sometimes it can be hard to hold myself accountable but it is good to learn that skill in the real world anyhow.

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