C: I teach in a public high school (I’m trying to get into online private ed), and I earned my master’s degree online. If done properly, online ed is the future. Brick and mortars will still be here, but they will be for the “underprivileged”. Big Gov has to get the kids their “free” breakfasts and lunches!
So as a public high school teacher, do you consider the expansion of online education a good thing for you and other effective, public school teachers? Do you think that in a future educational system, good teachers such as yourself will still have teaching jobs, but that these jobs sill simply function differently than they used to? I know some public school teachers, and tons of private school teachers, including private Christian school teachers, fear that they will become completely unemployable if what the most ardent proponents of online education are saying is true.
Technology is here. The system revolves around a grade(variable) per semester (constant). Flip it. The only grade would be a A- (90%) and the variable is the time it take to get there. More conducive with STEM type classes and college level.
Well choreographed classes with multiple "branch" lessens are there for the making. The "A" students would zoom through while the "C" students trudge along, both completing courses with the same competency level.
I have no specific knowledge but certainly hope the on-line universities become mainstream.
My reason is financial.I have a grand daughter entering college and I am stunned at the costs.
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As a home school family, we use online ed. In the future, fedgov will realize they are not getting any money from it and either tax it or outlaw it.