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By: Blogging About The Future of K-12 Online Learning « Virtual High School Meanderings

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:22:17 +0000

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Online Learning On My Mind | The Next Step — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:40:56 +0000

[...] Clayton Christensen predicts half of all high school students will take online courses ten years from now. If that comes true, [...]

By: mrplough07

mrplough07 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:20:15 +0000

There are a few of us at my high school that actively advocate for constructivist and collaborative projects. Im glad your school is starting out that way because its a lot more difficult to reform a school than to have a certain model from onset. Online learning is still so new, in a few years we probably won’t have to explain the “independent study,” concept.

By: Beth Still

Beth Still — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:14:56 +0000

I teach at a very small alternative school in western Nebraska. Currently we teach hybrid courses utilizing Moodle to facilitate our online content. This fall we are adding credit recovery classes when we launch the first online high school in the state. Our hope is to be able get other educators and administrators to buy into online learning. There is still a huge misconception that online classes are just another version of independent study classes. Our model is constructivist and collaborative in nature.

Hope to meet up with you at NECC.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:29:16 +0000

I think it’s possible… but partly because the next generation of teachers coming out of college will have experience in taking online courses and therefore be a bit more prepared to teach them.

I’m doubtful it will be because of new generation of responsible, self-starting, well-supported kids who see online education as an alternative route for education. Unless the entire country makes a culture shift about education, I cannot see the type of student who attends online school changing much, unless we manage to change the type of school they get online.