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ASU seizing online future

June 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The push toward virtual education is part of a national trend at colleges and K-12 schools. According to an annual Sloan Survey of Online Learning at 2,500 colleges and universities, 29 percent of students took at least one course online in fall 2009, up from nearly 12 percent in fall 2003.

Online courses appeal to universities because they can yield higher profits.

The classes have higher student-teacher ratios, meaning the cost of paying teachers is spread out over more students. Also, building and maintenance costs are lower because online doesn’t use classrooms.

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Mercury Online Academy blends online learning with charter school environment

August 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Mercury Online Academy of Arizona is a blended learning program — a combination of online courses and charter-school curriculum.

“The beauty of this program is it’s online learning, which you can customize for every child,” explained Gene Eidelman of Mercury Online Academy of Arizona.”With online options, you can, first of all, find out what level students are in all different subjects.”

With the blended charter school component, students go one day a week to a learning center for project-based learned and to interact with his or her teacher and other students.

“That is the uniqueness of this program — the online component and the in-classroom component,” Eidelman said.

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Sunnyside clamping down on truancy

July 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Some parents need to be taken to court because they are not seeing to it that their child is in school, said Board President Louie Gonzales.

Under state law, “it is unlawful for any child between 6 and 16 years of age to fail to attend school during the hours school is in session,” states the policy. If a student has five unexcused absences from school, he or she is considered to be a habitual truant.

An attendance officer can enforce the law and give a student a ticket requiring him or her and a parent to appear in court, states the policy.

STAR, which stands for Students Taking Alternate Routes, is recognized as one of six exemplary dropout-intervention programs by the Arizona Department of Education.

The district is working on a proposal to increase the academic center’s enrollment from 200 to 400 under a redesign plan that includes a virtual high school, a dropout-recovery center and a dropout-prevention center. The plan will be phased in over two years.

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Peoria Unified School District’s eCampus provides alternative learning

July 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Students interested in taking high school courses from English to personal fitness outside of the typical school day to accommodate their schedules or other needs can do so through Peoria Unified School District’s eCampus Virtual High School.

Significantly different from attending a brick-and-mortar school, students enrolled in the eCampus have the flexibility of completing assignments and watching video lectures on a computer from home at their leisure.

Completing classes online is a boon for students with inflexible work schedules, physical disabilities or missing course credits.

Although courses such as English or math are standard fare for online learning, a personal fitness course isn’t something done solely with a computer.

Students are required to log the time dedicated to physical activity just as they would record time spent on other online courses every week.

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