Teachers get to do LESS and benefit from that.
People will start to wonder if they need their taxes to pay for teachers and teachers aides. A news spot on TV the other night featured a charter school that offers on-line learning. The kids were very involved. They probably liked the peace and quiet. One kid said he preferred it to interacting with a teacher.
The two teachers sat glumly in the back of the classroom, watching the kids, probably wondering what education is going to look like for them 5 or 10 years down the road.
Not really. Online courses take much longer to set up. To be successful, they take a lot of ongoing intervention on the part of the teacher. They take a different kind of work.
I’m a bit dubious about this report; I guess I should read it before I judge it. Only good students should even consider taking an online course. Unmotivated students tend to drop. So I imagine that the universe of online students are better and more motivated than the universe of general college students. They are probably older and more mature with life experience as well, so I wonder if the report is somewhat comparing apples and oranges, at least different kinds of apples.