>>14277555A friend from high school ended up back at our high school as a teacher but a few years ago transition to 'Online Learning Facilitator'. Each school period she has about sixty students come into her classroom and learn through online courses. These are all things that the school wouldn't have been able to offer on its own due to too few students interested or capable of doing the coursework.
Her job is to check everyone in, make sure the equipment is working properly (and help if it isn't), ensure no one is disturbing anyone else, proctor exams, and if a student gets to a lesson that they're not able to understand, connect them with a remote teacher of the subject for one on one tutoring until they're able to master that particular lesson. She says it works really well.
I suspect there is some selection bias here in that the students most likely to take these courses tend to be the more motivated and capable students but there's nothing wrong with that. Education shouldn't be a one-size-fits-all endeavor. We used a mass production strategy in the past because it was economical but with advancements in computer based learning, more can be done to individualize teaching and stop trying to force everyone to the mean.
