by Adriana Maestas, Politic365
As MOOCs and other online educational resources become available, more Latino students are entering college. A recent study shows that Hispanic high school graduates are enrolling in college at a rate higher than their white counterparts. Data also shows that these students tend to face challenges completing college. And another study from 2011 shows that Latino students who take online classes are less likely to pass those classes and earned lower grades than Latino students who took comparable face-to-face (traditional) courses. Additionally, Latino students lag further behind the performance of white students in online courses. This could pose a problem for the growing Latino college student population. Yet despite some warnings of what the online course revolution could mean for Latino students, there are few Latinos who are actively engaged in the online learning professional arena. Politic365 had the opportunity to speak with two of the most prominent Latino voices in online education: former California State Senator Dean Florez, President and CEO of the 20 Million Minds Foundation and Emerson Malca, the co-founder of StudyRoom.
http://politic365.com/2013/06/01/moocs-the-open-education-debate-where-are-the-latinos/
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