Post by Chris_Wendt on Aug 22, 2012 11:14:06 GMT -5
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Small, under-subscribed elective courses? Too expensive to hire a teacher for a new or experimental or high-degree of difficulty course?
There is a global e-Learning network starting this year. and two LI schools have signed-up for it. This is sort of like an academic consolidation without all the political and budgetary fuss.
It also could become a widespread alternative to adding or maintaining expensive FTE teaching positions while at the same time greatly expanding learning opportunities for students...literally globally.
I would venture to say that, if the solid course offerings and quality are well developed and expertly delivered, but if school districts balk at joining this network, then families will find their own ways to subscribe without that other main district-provided ingredient...the classroom inside the school house. Imagine students legally "skipping" four periods every day, and taking e-Learning courses at home, maybe even at night or on the weekends!
Just musing about this. It hadn't ever worked well in Wantagh, back when it was called "distance learning". Why? Because we "couldn't" (meaning we wouldn't) coordinate our "BELL SCHEDULES" with schools in Michigan, and Texas. and California. I think technology will have made such a lame argument moot, now or at least in the immediate future.
What do you think?
Chris Wendt
Small, under-subscribed elective courses? Too expensive to hire a teacher for a new or experimental or high-degree of difficulty course?
There is a global e-Learning network starting this year. and two LI schools have signed-up for it. This is sort of like an academic consolidation without all the political and budgetary fuss.
It also could become a widespread alternative to adding or maintaining expensive FTE teaching positions while at the same time greatly expanding learning opportunities for students...literally globally.
I would venture to say that, if the solid course offerings and quality are well developed and expertly delivered, but if school districts balk at joining this network, then families will find their own ways to subscribe without that other main district-provided ingredient...the classroom inside the school house. Imagine students legally "skipping" four periods every day, and taking e-Learning courses at home, maybe even at night or on the weekends!
Just musing about this. It hadn't ever worked well in Wantagh, back when it was called "distance learning". Why? Because we "couldn't" (meaning we wouldn't) coordinate our "BELL SCHEDULES" with schools in Michigan, and Texas. and California. I think technology will have made such a lame argument moot, now or at least in the immediate future.
What do you think?
Chris Wendt