I once asked a math major what integration meant. The question must have caught her by surprise since she stopped, looked at me and said “I don’t really know, but I did get all A’s in Calculus.”
Math teachers are notorious about introducing a concept with abstraction before explaining the relation it has with real life. Take the first day of a typical college Analytical Geometry class; the teacher introduces the class by drawing a graph on the board and asking, “Is that a relation or a function?” Relations and functions have different properties and the question is legitimate, but ‘you lost your audience professor’ – except for the top 3%. This is because most of the students have no concrete concept of functional or non-functional graphs. First, explain what function vs. relation means and then let the class try and create both.
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In addition to providing means to attaining online certificates, degrees and diplomas, online schools are more than mere distance learning portals; today, they are virtual campuses that offer multitudes of disciplines from which to choose – and that’s not all: In recent news [1], the state of Washington “built” two (2) of their newest online schools and were quite surprised by the results. When their “virtual doors” are scheduled to open fall of 2006, educational leaders never quite anticipated the overwhelming response they would receive – in this case, student enrollment was just above 650 in one of the online schools; and was only expected to gain 300 at best. Additionally, in the same online school; overall interest that has been expressed is nearly double that number!
Online schools are quickly becoming a mainstay in quality home-education. Homebound students who are being taught away from public school campuses, can now couple their home-schooling with comprehensive online courses that are especially designed so that students may obtain their electronic high school diploma without stepping foot into a public classroom. [2]
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Are you considering going back to school to further your education, but you just can’t see how you can do it, considering all of your obligations and responsibilities? If so, then there is good news! Millions of people around the world have discovered online distance education-also known as e-learning, e-degrees, and virtual education, among other names-as a valid path for earning their college degrees.
But is it for you? Perhaps you have already gone to college, but it seems so distant and foreign now that you wonder if you can get back into the learning mode again. Or perhaps you were never able to attend college because “life happened” and your chance just passed you by. No matter what your experience, you are older and wiser now, and you see a value in education that you may not have seen before.
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Distance learning opportunities used to exist through what was called correspondence courses, which were conducted over the mail, on the radio or on television. Today, the internet is the primary method of presenting educational materials. Online education affords students who little time or money, or who live in remote areas, to attend classes.
Classes Offered Through Distance Learning Online Education
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Many students are returning to school in the normal tradition – in brick and mortar buildings. A trend that is booming is supplementing traditional education with ‘distance education’ now referred to as virtual education by many.
According to John Flores, CEO of the nonprofit United States Distance Learning Association, “It’s who’s not doing it. You currently have millions of students in distance learning situations.”
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