Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Week 12 Part 1 - Virtual Schooling
Before this course at WSU, I did not know very much about K-12 online learning. However, over the past 12 weeks, I have come to have a better understanding of some of various possibilities on online education.
In the school district where I teach, students have recently been taking online classes to supplement their high school education. They take these online classes to either earn credit in a class that they have previously failed, or as a way to take a course that is not offered at our school. There seems to be a variety of students that take these types of online classes, and they take them from multiple locations. Some students prefer to participate in their online courses from home, but there are also students that would like to remain in the school setting, and they do their online coursework in the computer labs.
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Hi Alicia, I read your post on online learning, and it looks as if your district is mirroring my district where students are now able to take online courses. My district doesn't really offer online courses, but has a relationship with the local community college where students can enroll in what is called a dual-enrollment program and take classes, both face to face in a traditional school environment, and recently online at the community college. I am not clear how the program is structured, but I rather think it is for students with a certain GPA and not for recovery credits. It seems we are all moving towards online teaching.
ReplyDeleteHi Regina,
ReplyDeleteThe online classes that my district offers online might actually be considered dual enrollment too, I'm not sure. I know that the advanced students sometimes choose to dual enroll with the community college, in a face to face traditional setting as well. However, I do not know how they choose to take the classes online... This is all a bit new to me.