Online Learning Update

November 21, 2010

Mandatory cyber learning expands

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

By Amy Crawford, TRIBUNE-REVIEW

In his senior year at Burrell High School, Shaun Cunningham was planning to take a full load of advanced classes. The busy 18-year-old was not looking forward to cramming a required health course into his already packed schedule. So when the school asked him to pilot an online version of the class, taught over the Internet by a district teacher, Cunningham jumped at the chance. “As soon as they said online, I thought, college is coming, so it would kind of prepare me for not having a teacher in my face, telling me, ‘Now it’s time to do this,'” he said.

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