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Friday, December 29, 2006
Online Learning Comes of Age - eSchool News
Online learning comes of age, multiplying the opportunities available to students and teachers. The past year saw an explosion in online learning programs for teachers and students, continuing a trend that some experts predicted would begin to level off. Instead, according to a report from the North American Council for Online Learning, enrollment in K-12 online classes grew by more than 50 percent in some states--and at least 38 states now feature either state-led online learning programs, policies regulating online education, or both. In higher education, the story was the same: According to the Sloan Consortium, which tracks online enrollment figures at higher-education institutions annually, online enrollment was up 40 percent over the previous year.
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