Search Results for 'Online Learning'

Lawmakers tread carefully on online learning

Online education was not the subject of much debate last fall when southeast Iowa lawmakers toured the region to discuss the governor's plan for education reform. But as the proposals emerged during the legislative session, the issue [...]

Posted On : Apr, 04 2012 | Comments : 0

Higher Education Commission Launches Online Learning

As one of 12 states selected through Race to the Top to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Tennessee has embarked on a once in a lifetime opportunity to implement sustainable educatio [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Online Learning, Personalized

Jesse Roe, a ninth-grade math teacher at a charter school here called Summit, has a peephole into the brains of each of his 38 students. He can see that a girl sitting against the wall is zipping through geometry exercises; that a boy wit [...]

Posted On : Dec, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Far and away: online learning's big appeal

But that doesn't always mean the course has been reworked and tweaked so that it works well online, says Curtin University's head of internet studies, Professor Matthew Allen. He says would-be students should track down the course [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Will the General Assembly kill online learning?

One of the hottest topics in education today is the growth of online learning, or virtual schools. Today there are more than a million enrollments in K-12 online courses nationwide ... and more than 200,000 of these are full-time student [...]