Characteristics/History
Education provided through virtual classes that can be taken at home or in a monitored classroom.
What is online learning?
Students struggling in traditional classrooms are steered towards online courses where they struggle.
Students are not learning the course material.
What are some controversies of online education?
Students get to move at their own pace.
What is an advantage?
Online and Traditional learning combined.
What is blended learning?
The gap between student successes based on background.
What is the achievement gap?
Students take longer to graduate on time.
What is the disadvantage?
Two more institutions opened up online education opportunities in 1997.
What is California Virtual University (CVU) and the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN)?
Completely online college degrees.
What is considered less favorable?
Students take a wide variety of courses.
What is an advantage?