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Cybrarians perform slightly different functions from a distance. Perhaps most importantly, they help educators and students use a growing array of shared resource collections, including educational databases, learning object repositories, and standards-based instructional materials. Cybrarians may also serve as online reference experts. Together, Farmer predicts, SLMSs and cybrarians will form the backbone of a two-tiered […]
The “Georgia Virtual High School” would allow students to take advanced courses online. The program will be available to public, private and home-schooled students, but public school pupils will have a priority in the program.Read the Full Story
The Beloit educator of almost 30 years doesn’t need to wake early to get himself ready for the school day. Instead, he wanders to his basement, flips on a computer and looks over the day’s lessons. He does not teach within the time limits of ringing bells or deal with classroom interruption.Read the Full Story
The program is in its first year and currently has 18 students enrolled.Read the Full Story
Students in Mrs. Glover’s 5th grade science classrooms took part in an innovative, distance learning program that simulated real-life situations in order to enhance science, math and technology skills.Read the Full Story
Local high schools are joining the state and the nation in seeing a rising number of students taking advanced placement classes and succeeding in them. Read the Full Story
The Harris County High School senior has discovered a way to take courses that could help him become a writer, courses too specialized to be offered through his high school.Read the Full Story
Their attendance in teacher Marianne Lingman’s class at New Bern High School was made possible through distance learning, new to Craven County Schools this semester in a pilot program between the high schools.Read the Full Story
Many state education officials attribute the gains in participation at least in part to online courses that expand the reach of advanced-level instruction. Read the Full Story
The junior at Tiffin Columbian High School is taking the course online through Virtual High School, a Massachusetts-based consortium that lets districts across the country supplement their curriculums with online classes. Read the Full Story
