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

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Distance learning provides economies for educators - Karine Abalyan, Journal Inquirer
In a dark classroom at Ellington High School, seven students sit around a whiteboard doubling as a projection screen. They concentrate as a math teacher based at Suffield High School is explaining percents, writing out numbers, and asking questions as if he were right there in Ellington and not in a building 17 miles away. Suddenly, the onscreen image changes and the students in Ellington see a similar classroom of teenagers working on the same math problem. "Oh, Suffield," someone says, identifying the group.

 



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