Week 14 - Distance Education and Virtual Schooling

This lesson taught us about distance education and virtual schooling. Many people chose to go to school online for various different reasons. It is more convenient as you can access it anywhere that has a computer. This type of education also helps save money on gas and for many mothers it may help cut costs on babysitters as seen in this movie from the class website:

This is something that teachers should know about. The more distance education becomes popular the more teachers jobs will change. If less students are in the classroom and are online instead it will lead to teachers having to resort to teaching online or not teach at all due to lack of need for classroom teachers.

I found this website online which has a lot of information on distance education including schools offering it and degrees available. One thing I found very interesting was that in their list of popular courses the very first one is a Spanish course. I always knew that a lot of people were trying to learn Spanish, but it came as a shock to me that it would be quite so popular.