As a homeschool mom, I think it’s very important to include a couple of internet courses for your children. Many community colleges offer online classes that high school and upper elementary students can easily take online.
Upper education is moving in the direction of online education and it’s helpful to prepare our kids before they get to that point. Most classes do not require a student to be online during specific times but rather to complete the work as laid out in a syllabus.
Give your kids a well balanced education by teaching them how to be successful at online courses. Here’s an article about online course at the secondary level.
BY MICHAEL VASQUEZ
MRVASQUEZ@MIAMIHERALD.COM
Online college courses are exploding in popularity — far outpacing the growth of higher education as a whole — but it’s not just the number of online students that has expanded.
The online class experience, too, is more wide-reaching — encompassing far more than just keyboard strokes and mouse clicks.
At local universities, students are getting medical training, practicing their public speaking and doing their own “kitchen-based experiments,” all online.
This richer online learning experience — combined with the convenience of scheduling school when you want it — has boosted the medium’s popularity to the point that today more than one in four college students takes at least one course online.
“People are becoming more accepting, and used to technology,” said John Bourne, executive director of the Massachusetts-based Sloan Consortium, which tracks online enrollments. The organization’s 2009 report showed a 17 percent year-to-year surge in online students nationally, while the total number of U.S. college students rose a mere 1.2 percent.
Colleges Serious about Internet Intellectuals
As a homeschool mom, I think it’s very important to include a couple of internet courses for your children. Many community colleges offer online classes that high school and upper elementary students can easily take online.
Upper education is moving in the direction of online education and it’s helpful to prepare our kids before they get to that point. Most classes do not require a student to be online during specific times but rather to complete the work as laid out in a syllabus.
Give your kids a well balanced education by teaching them how to be successful at online courses. Here’s an article about online course at the secondary level.