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Wednesday, April 10, 2002
http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/MAR02_Issue/article04.html Distance Education in Rural Public Schools Jason L. Hicks Abstract With technology becoming more and more user friendly, educators have been using computers, IETV, and the Internet to teach students in new and interesting ways. Rural schools benefit from distance education in the fact that it allows those schools to give students the same opportunities as larger, more urban schools. Students were allowed to participate in more complex and diverse subjects. In some instances, those subjects were taught from other public schools or from regional universities. Drawbacks such as technical difficulties and fear of technology by educators and community members hindered the widespread use of distance education. The hypothesis that there was an improvement in academic achievement for rural school students who learned through distance education was accepted.... Editors Note: Experience is dispelling many myths about learning from the World Wide Web. Students throughout the world benefit by distance education. In rural schools it greatly increases the resources available for student research and independent learning. In this instance, the students’ educational opportunities were almost doubled, leading to improvement in academic achievement.
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