According to a study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education by SRI International, learned by the network are performing slightly better than those studying in schools. The results are not 100% conclusive, but tend to ask questions: Is online learning is better than traditional?
Conducted by SRI surveys cover the years 1996 until 2008, and material from kindergarten through 12 grades, which is equivalent to the end of our school, which means children under the age of 17-18. It turned out that students who study all or part of the network acquired over their 59% points compared with 50% gained by the traditionally taught.
Many American students learn more effectively using social networking, instant messaging, video presentations and materials offered by K-12, or Kaplan, than sitting in school. Difficult to assess whether this is due to the lack of distracting elements such as tiring classmates or nude colleagues, but apparently it works.
One of the main objections to online learning is that students cut off from the environment of their peers and delayed social development. However, the network of supporters says that on the contrary, since the possibility of hours of instruction to fit individual lifestyles release time, which you can spend on hobbies and other activities.
The second objection is the claim that online learning is easier. Supporters of this model correspond; however, that requires a much better time management skills and discipline. One of the institutions involved in online learning in the United States, or Insight Schools is trying to promote these features in your program - only do they effectively?
The third, which may increase the Poles, it is tradition. While in the U.S. study at home is acceptable and often replaces the public schools, then in Poland, right, and will not favor this, and parents rarely try to take care of themselves their children's education.
All have their own importance, however, insufficient to reject education online. Many parents certainly glad that the opportunity to save their children in smoking weeds and drinking vodka in WC in the school, which is now almost an integral part of education.
Negligible is also the question of the level of difficulty as one of the main complaints of teachers is that parents have a profound esteem for the results of their children, and claims only and only to the school. Thus, making the responsibility for monitoring the progress of children on the shoulders of their parents could have its advantages.
Finally, the tradition is well worth the few in our time, because neither the school nor religion, nor the state does not keep pace with technological changes which we witness. But these somewhat populist - I admit - the arguments are only preliminary.
The real advantage of online learning, the better fit the medium, offering audio and video transmission, to the needs of "the generation". Young people brought up from the beginning in the era of the Internet and the noise information is a totally new challenge that the current education system cannot cope with archaic program and teachers-mamuts.
Previously, a shock to the representatives of the education system was "Generation Y" or the young rose in a culture imbued with a multimedia advertising, which increased strongly response threshold. Now comes a generation, which will be even harder to reach with traditional transmission, so you may learn by the network is the only way to protect them from illiteracy?
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