Online courses required....
While searching for reference articles in my assignment I came across this webpage basically saying that the Michigan State Board of Education was considering requiring students to take at least one online offering. http://chronicle.com/free/2005/12/2005121301t.htm What a great idea. Not because I am in the field, but because I think that the self directed model is so difficult to create in a traditional classroom. This would at least give every student a taste of a very different learning environment. It may even spur some kids into taking college courses that would have not been plausible for them in a traditional college. This isn't part of the assignment, I just thought that it was a cool idea and wanted to share.
posted by Dallas Becker @ 8:21 PM
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For more about online learning, please visit the vSKOOL listing of online learning resources at http://www.vskool.org/onlinelearning.html. You may also be interested in postings on the vSKOOL blog at http://www.vskool.org/www/vskoolblog.html. Topics on the blog deal with K-12 online learning and hurricane relief.
I hadn't heard this news--thanks for sharing. What a fascinating evolution we are seeing in opinions about k-12 online learning. Just two to three years ago, online classes were being criticized as "washed-down" curriculum. These trends will only continue to increase as student demand for technology-based learning increase.
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