“Teachers, administrators, researchers, reformers, government leaders, parents, and others have long extolled the benefits that computer-based learning could have in schools: Educational video games, often referred to as “edutainment” or “serious” games, could make learning fun and motivating, especially for today’s students. Computers offer a way to customize instruction and allow students to learn in the way they are best wired to process information, in the style that conforms to them, and at a pace that matches their own. Computer-based learning on a large scale is also less expensive than the current labor intensive system and could solve the financial dilemmas facing public schools”

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Early Results – Online Education

“More than two thirds of American parents would be willing to have their children take some of their high school courses over the Internet, a new Education Next-PEPG poll shows.

Findings from a new poll from Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at Harvard University also show that, in most instances, the American public favors public funding for online courses that high school students take for credit over the internet. The breadth of their support, however, depends on the purpose of the online education. A majority favor funding for high schools offering advanced courses for students online and for high schools that offer rural students a broader range of courses online. A plurality support funding online classes that help dropouts gain credits. However, only about one in four support funding for online courses offered to homeschooled students, with the plurality of respondents opposing the idea outright.”

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