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- 09-21-2011
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By Sue Frey/Ed Source Extra!
The Fresno Unified School District has figured out a relatively simple way to dramatically increase the pass rates of high school students who enroll in online courses to make up for classes they have failed in a traditional classroom setting. Instead of letting students work at home, the district makes students take the online course while they are still at school—and provides a teacher in the computer lab or classroom to offer guidance and answer questions. Fresno’s experience could prove useful to other districts considering online learning. Increasingly, schools are turning to online courses as a cost-effective way to help high school students get enough credits to graduate. Online learning has grown from roughly 45,000 students taking a course in 2000 to more than 4 million by 2010, according to a May 2011 paper by Heather Staker of the Innosight Institute, a nonprofit organization in Mountain View, California. (more...)
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