Online Learning is Catching on Across Texas
Contributor: Brian Caudill, Connected Texas
It’s official - more Texas schools are now offering online learning options!
Online courses and “virtual classrooms” are popping up on computers all across the Lone Star State. Two primes examples are Sharemylesson.com and the Virtual High School Collaborative.
Sharemylesson.com offers teachers an invaluable resource with more than 250,000 instructional tools and lessons for all grade levels. The site actually allows teachers from across the nation to share their lesson plans with each other. It’s a gold mine of ideas and inspiration that teachers in El Paso are using to boost creativity in a time of severe budget cuts and increasing federal accountability standards.
Meantime, the Virtual High School (VHS) Collaborative is also making a huge online impact. VHS Collaborative is a nonprofit, allows high schools to join up in order to offer online courses to their students. Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth is one of the Texas schools now offering classes through the program.
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"It's a great experience that I will definitely take with me into the working world!"
Texas college students are learning online too! In fact, Texas universities like Midwestern State and Vernon College are offering students online courses. At Midwestern State, as many as 900 students take classes that are exclusively online while Vernon College now offers one quarter of its classes as fully-online courses.
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