Online Learning Update

August 12, 2011

South Dakota, Internet Online Learning Pioneer

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

 

by Quentin Hardy, Forbes

As the story said, peer and project learning is being taken up in other South Dakota school districts at least nominally as a way of possibly re-igniting student interest in learning. There is also a strong sentimental feeling here for the one-room schoolhouse, where a single teacher handled a range of abilities, and more advanced students often taught those behind them. When, as in the Mid-Central part of the state, you have 13 school districts with fewer than 450 students apiece, anything connected to the Internet is going to offer a richer range of information than anything likely available locally. But the goal here is also measured in the ability to increase the number of students per teacher, and the ability to stretch budgets under attack.

http://blogs.forbes.com/quentinhardy/2011/07/30/south-dakota-internet-learning-pioneer/

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