Head of the Class
You’ve heard of online learning, you may have even taken some courses. The adventurous out there have gained a certification or degree through an e-learning program. What kind of research did you perform in finding what you wanted? Did you settle for something that was “close enough” instead of “exceeds expectations”? Worse, did you pile on the credits and then find out too late that the institution you were working with was going belly up and taking your money with them?
Immersed in the culture of online learning, distance learning--whatever you choose to call it--Gene Maeroff (the author of a variety of books on public schools and policy) uses his reporter’s insight and his teacher’s comprehension to examine the case of how online educational opportunities are being created, destroyed, supported, frowned upon and ultimately assessed by educators, students and commercial customers alike.
A Classroom of One: How Online Learning is Changing Our Schools and Colleges is written neither to promote nor criticize the medium. Maeroff’s text skillfully provides both sides of a convoluted fence so that the reader can get an objective look at the complexities that face our current academic environment--for both the traditional school framework and the business workplace.
Taking a trip into schools of various
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