This is going to sound weird, but I never went to normal school; I went to online school.
Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.
We've seen more and more people opt for homeschooling, including in urban areas.
Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
So much of our society has gone completely digital. Today, you can attend school, buy TVs, plan a vacation, and pay your bills electronically. Why not bring comic books into the digital realm?
During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.
Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.
I went to school on the Internet. I was not a cheerleader.
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast
Drucker probably underestimated the importance of both the credentialing role of universities.
I'm pretty much using media all day because my school is online. It's sort of like homeschooling but also like going to real school - you log in and do all your work and email it to the teacher, and we have a teacher who oversees us on set.
The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
Some students just don't like online class.
I study the Bible and spend time on the Internet.
It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!
So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.
The global e-learning online market is on fire. Organizations which feel left out of this non-linear world of opportunities are seeing the need to adopt this new way of lifelong learning.
It is inevitable that we will need digital technology to re-imagine learning beyond schooling. Even if it is only to inspire people to do more things physically.
Online education and technology are doubtless going to change how we learn in the years ahead. Remote learning is inexpensive and brings down the cost of near-universal access.
There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.
The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
I've learned a lot about things because of the Internet. I'm happy with it, but it's a long road for me. I'm still definitely a little anti.
Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology.
Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I've learned to get a grip and take care of myself.
I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.
I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.