by Virtual College UK
The majority (53 per cent) of public school districts in the US were taking advantage of online learning or other remote education tools in the 2009 to 2010 academic year. This is according to the US Education Department’s annual Condition of Education Report, which revealed that 1.3 million high school students were taking part in remote learning during the year, compared with just 300,000 five years earlier. It defined distance education courses as those that are delivered by technology, grant credits and have either the instructor or course content developed and located in a different place than the students. A total of 12 per cent of the nation’s educational districts are enabling individuals to use online learning to fulfil all of the requirements of their high school graduation, with 22 per cent allowing people to take at least one full course load every term using this innovation. Furthermore, the most popular model for remote education was through e-learning courses provided on the internet with asynchronous instruction, rather than simultaneous dialogue.
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