Online Courses Aren't Just for Home-Schoolers Anymore
Once considered the domain of home-schooled students, K-12 online learning is a fast-growing option for public school students in rural, urban, and suburban areas.
Education researchers are just beginning to seriously study K-12 online learning, says Susan Lowes, director of research and evaluation at the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University's Teachers College. She says existing research typically focuses on whether online learning is as good as classroom learning. "I think we now have gone way beyond that, or should have gone beyond that, to try to understand how it's different, both positively and negatively."
This article, written by Kate Moser, appeared in the March 30th, 2006 publication of The Christian Science Monitor.
Published Friday, Mar. 31, 2006