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June 13, 2012Education technology professor Michael Barbour comments in Yahoo News article about online teaching methods
http://news.yahoo.com/teacher-youve-never-met-inside-online-high-school-110806652.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CUKh9hP3A0AoxvQtDMD
Scant research exists on the effectiveness of full-time online learning, but 30 states allow K-12 students to learn entirely online. Across the country, more than two million K-12 students participate in some form of online education, and nearly 300,000 do so full time, according to John Watson, founder of the Evergreen Education Group, a consulting firm in Durango, Colo. Michael Barbour, professor of education technology at Wayne State University, notes one of the biggest challenges for teachers who offer courses online. "Teachers need to figure out how to deliver lessons when they don't have that real-time interaction with students," says Barbour. "It's just something that is new to them."
Scant research exists on the effectiveness of full-time online learning, but 30 states allow K-12 students to learn entirely online. Across the country, more than two million K-12 students participate in some form of online education, and nearly 300,000 do so full time, according to John Watson, founder of the Evergreen Education Group, a consulting firm in Durango, Colo. Michael Barbour, professor of education technology at Wayne State University, notes one of the biggest challenges for teachers who offer courses online. "Teachers need to figure out how to deliver lessons when they don't have that real-time interaction with students," says Barbour. "It's just something that is new to them."
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