Web gets classier with CCT courses

Computer-skills school takes its offerings online

J. Michael Ray has heard the knock: Web-based education doesn’t match muscle with the real, live thing.

That is the mantra of skeptical education experts worldwide as they watch a recent wave of curiosity carry everyone from graduate-school research coordinators to elementary-school tutors onto the Internet in search of a conduit between school and home.

Ray, the president and co-founder of Fort Collins-based Colorado Computer Training Ltd., has listened to the doubters, but he’s not buying their rhetoric. And last month, in the midst of a national storm of technology turmoil, Ray upgraded his 15-year-old business,…