by John Thompson, Sloan Consortium Blog
Most of my graduate teacher education students like online learning not because of any lofty sounding pedagogical reasons. Students like online learning because of its 24/7 flexibility, at least with online learning that is asynchronous (i.e., not real time) so that they can access/use/learn whenever it fits their schedule. I do almost all my teaching from my home, 24/7. Another big benefit of online learning is that there are no driving and campus parking hassles for my grad students (or for me either) when courses are online. But how popular is online learning in K-12 and higher education? A recent NY Times article cited K-12 statistics from the Sloan Consortium that there were 50,000 students enrolled in wholly or partly online courses in 2000 By 2008, there were more than a million.
http://sloanconsortium.org/node/163446
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