College Moves Ahead with Online Casino Course

September 03, 2010 | News Category: Online Casinos

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A community college in Reading, Pennsylvania, is offering a new course this year. The course is an online casino class. While this might seem strange to many, the course is being offered to prepare students for jobs in the future, and even though the United States has yet to legalize online gambling, those that run this college obviously feel that this is a good course to prepare students for the future.

The course will teach the students about table games, dealing, and other information about casinos, even though there are no casinos anywhere near the college. Students will also learn how online casino games operate, and are controlled, as well as how the online casino games are created. They will also learn some information regarding the business side of online casinos and other online gambling institutions.

John Devere is the Dean of Reading Community College. He is of the opinion that there is not likely to be a land based casino in the area of the college anytime in the near, or possibly distant, future, so he feels that business opportunities and job opportunities for those who wish to work in the gambling industry, lie with online casinos.

When asked why he would offer this kind of course, Devere said: "We keep a pulse on the local labor market."

Not only will the course educate students about land based and online casinos, it will also be taught online. This way, the course will be available, even if only one student signs up for it. Devere noted: "We normally couldn't afford to do this, so whether we get one student or 100, we can run that class."

He further explained: "Since there was no guarantee there were going to be any casinos close by, I thought how can I get involved in this and how can the college get involved with it without making a commitment to hiring a full-time or part-time instructor."

According to the State House Gaming Oversight Committee, there are already jobs available in this field. Reading, Pennsylvania, certainly has the distinction of being the first college to offer a course such as this one, but there are predictions that it is not likely to be the last college to offer courses of this type.

An interesting way that this course could be applied for those who wish to work only with online casinos, and not with land based casinos, is that the students who learn to deal, can use their skills in a "live dealer" online casino.