Benefits of Virtual Schooling
Much as I don’t expect ebooks to replace print completely, but do expect them to take a huge chunk of the market, so I expect virtual schooling will become much more the norm, yet classrooms will still exist. I think for simple cost, if nothing else, virtual schooling will become much more common.
How My Online Learning Changed My Teaching tells the story of one teacher who learned how to teach better through his experiences getting an online graduate degree. But there’s something else important in that article. Notice the use of various social media and communication options to enhance his online experience. Often critics of online schooling don’t recognize the value of such options. Online learning can, in fact, give a student better interaction with a broader range of people, which is itself a valid goal in education.
