Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Thursday, September 16, 2004
More students log on to learn - Peter Schworm, Boston Globe

With a point and a click of her computer mouse, Hudson High School senior Roxanne Mutti hands in a poetry assignment to a teacher 3,000 miles away, then scrolls through messages from 19 classmates at schools that span four time zones. Mutti is among a surging number of high school students inhabiting two educational worlds. While sitting at computers in four-walled classrooms in their hometowns, they attend ''virtual" classes connected by fiber optics and Web-based bulletin boards.


 



Comments: Post a Comment


Fair Use