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

Saturday, July 12, 2008
Online Learning: The Future of Tutoring is here
Online instruction is rapidly achieving a critical mass that is transforming education across the globe from the elementary grades to the university level and even vocational training. In California, a middle school student, recovering from a long-term illness; who could not attend his school for long and cannot afford to go out for tuitions; checks his online tutoring website and schedules a class for his lessons and homework assignments. In Illinois, a busy professional who cannot speak Spanish, collaborates on an online tutoring website and registers for weekend classes to meet his business requirement of dealing with Spanish. A number of factors are driving the expansion of online education in the United States and around the world, chief among them being the growing demand for specialized knowledge in today's complex, information-based society

 



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