Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, November 08, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/11/2001110801u.htm

U. of Washington Creates Online High-School Courses
By MICHAEL ARNONE

Next year, high-school students looking for more challenge or variety in their studies will be able to take online courses that the University of Washington is developing from its undergraduate courses. In what might be a first among partnerships between higher education and private secondary-education companies, University of Washington Educational Outreach, the division that delivers distance education for the university's other schools and departments, has formed a partnership with Apex Learning, a company that develops online courses for public-school students, to offer 11 courses in the fall of 2002....



 



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