This week we learned about Distance Education. We viewed a presentation and also looked at some websites that offer distance education. I was very familiar with this subject because its been present in my learning here at UF, and more specifically in this class. I did not realize however, that they were starting to use some of these online education forums for students younger than at the college age. Online education consists of fully online classes, and also blended classes, which only have parts of the class online.
I think Distance Education can be extremely beneficial. It makes it easy for teachers to give information to a large number of students, that don't have to be right there in front of them. I think though that for the most part, online learning should be left to college and and high school students. At an elementary level, students need to learn social skills and interact with other students like they will need to do in real world jobs.
Click here to view a link to a website I found through a Google search on distance learning. The website it was found on is Elearners.com. This particular page on the site goes through a large number of the different pros and cons to distance education.
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