A Case For Online Learning — Especially with New Curriculum Standards
You can’t replace the personal interactions between teacher and student, but there’s something to be said for online courses. Especially as Hawaii gears up for new national curriculum standards that may require more classes that we don’t have enough qualified instructors to teach.
And at a time when states and districts are struggling to make ends meet, digital classes can be a relatively inexpensive alternative to the standard classes held in brick-and-mortar rooms. Michael Horn over at EducationNext asks (and maybe answers) if it’s good to mandate online courses.
