Virtual Education

Friday, 02 December 2011

Education is the key to success, but is virtual education the ultimate solution?

Florida is at the forefront of promoting education reform by introducing and legislating the use of virtual education. Now for profit virtual schools are cropping up.  

Will laptops replace teachers? Will taxpayers pay for privatizing public education ?

Investigative reporter Lee Fang talks about his Nation Magazine report “How Online Learning Companies Bought America’s Schools”, with plans to offer full time virtual instructions across the nation, paid for by state tax dollars,

Is virtual education the best avenue for teaching children, or the best revenue for the for- profit K-12 education industry that Rupert Murdoch described as “a $500 billion sector in the US alone that is waiting desperately to be transformed”

Also, - from an educator’s perspective, virtual education expert  Dr. Cathy Cavanaugh, comments on the effective use of online and blended education through technology. 

She is Associate Professor of Education Technology at the University of Florida, where she teaches instructional design and distance education.