西瓜结果和授粉有关系:What‘s Online Education All About?(3)

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What's Online Education All About?

Listen as actual online teachers from Florida Virtual School, Clark County Virtual High School, West Virginia Virtual, and Virtual High School describe their experiences. Resources include links to reports and books on online learning, and demos from Florida Virtual School, Kentucky Virtual High School, Virtual High School, and University of California College Prep Online to illustrate the variety of classes available. You can also find out if you are a good candidate for online learning.

 

Students take online courses for many reasons. They might not be able to fit a required course into a traditional schedule. They have interest in learning from students outside of their traditional school, even from countries as far away as China and Africa. They are pulled by opportunities for dual enrollment and to take elective classes that might not otherwise be possible during the traditional school day, or to gain a competitive edge when preparing for college. They might want to take electives not available in their school course offerings, such as advanced courses when their school only offers the introductory course (e.g., computer programming). Online courses also accommodate students with special needs, such as those with health problems, full-time jobs, family constraints, or those that have fallen behind or failed a course in traditional school settings, and those with heavy schedules of extracurricular activities (e.g., sports with rigorous training and competition schedules with extensive travel involved).

Administrators like that additional courses can be offered (e.g., Latin, German, astronomy, psychology, and advanced placement), which their district might not otherwise afford to do so. Online courses also can help resolve scheduling conflicts and staffing issues. There might not be qualified teachers for a particular subject area, or, even when the qualified teacher is available, that teacher might be needed to teach core subjects rather than an elective in his/her certified field. Online courses also increase opportunities for teachers to teach topics of particular interest to them.

Concerns
Concerns about online learning have a great deal to do with ensuring quality, course development and/or purchasing costs, funding based on attendance in online and blended/hybrid courses, and the need for teacher training (Picciano & Seaman, 2007).

The Trujillo Commission on Online Education (Trujillo, Griffith, Snyder, & Urschel, 2007) in Colorado notes quality standards should include a shared vision and purpose; governance, leadership and an organizational structure to support learning and successful school performance; a research-based curriculum and instructional program; highly qualified teachers who are not only credentialed in their field, but who are trained in online teaching and learning methodology and appropriate uses of technology; engaging course content that is aligned to standards; instructional design focused on multiple means of engagement, multiple means of student assessment with appropriate feedback, and bias-free multicultural education principles.