Online Learning Update

January 31, 2012

Online Textbooks Update Student Learning

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

by June Soh, VOA

Electronic books, or e-books, have changed the way many of us read for pleasure. Now digital text books – educational volumes which are read online – are transforming the way many students learn. The Washington region’s largest school system, with 175,000 students, has begun using online course material for its middle- and high-school students. History teacher Luke Rosa wheels his cart filled with laptops into a classroom at Falls Church High School in Virginia. He asks his students to look to Chapter 6, Section 1, on Jacksonian America. Rather than using a regular textbook, it’s all online.

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Online-Textbooks-Update-Student-Learning–138041423.html

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