K-12 Online Learning: A Survey of U.S. School District Administrators
The Sloan Consortium’s first ever survey of online learning in elementary and secondary education, K-12 Online Learning: A Survey of U.S. School District Administrators, predicts rapid growth in online education. The nationwide survey, conducted during the 2005-2006 academic year, finds that almost two out of three (63 %) school districts had one or more students enrolled in either a fully online or a blended course, which combines online learning with traditional face-to-face instruction.
The new study estimates that 700,000 K-12 students were engaged in online courses in the 2005-2006 academic year…Survey results show online learning is meeting the specific needs of a range of students including those who need extra help, those who want to take more advanced courses and those whose districts do not have enough teachers to offer certain subjects.
+ Almost two-thirds of the responding public school districts are offering online courses:* 63.1% had one or more students enrolled in a fully online or blended course.* 57.9% had one or more students enrolled in a fully online course.* 32.4% had one or more students enrolled in a blended course.
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Source: The Sloan Consortium
