Friday, January 13, 2006

Virtual Courses Fill the Online Learning Gap

In several posts I've recently read, the theme tended towards a belief that online education was not posible for courses that required more hands-on than theory, such as chemistry or brick laying. But I recently received an article that includes information on one way in which such training can be done. It was referred to as "self-guided" training, and was done off the computer, but as part of an online course. The example it showed was of a student conducting a chemistry experiment in a small lab. (The article and picture came from EDUTOPIA APRIL/MAY 2005, pages 32-37.)

The picture above is from that article, and is a live HTML link to it. It contains much of interest to those who want more information about online education.

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