Calif.'s Online-Learning Potential Evaluated
California's 6 million students would benefit from a statewide system of online courses, or "e-learning," if its education agencies and other organizations worked together to develop such a system, a recent study concludes.
"California, with its unique educational, corporate, technological, and entertainment resources, is perfectly positioned to develop a virtual school system to better serve the needs of students," according to the report, which was commissioned by the University of California College Preparatory Initiative at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The state already has a solid data infrastructure, a prerequisite for effective e-learning, said Gordon Freedman, one of the study's writers and the founder of Knowledge Base LLC, an education consulting...
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