Summary of Research into K-12 Online Learning

While answering the blog question at the end of the report on Research into K-12 Online Learning, I covered the summary portion of this topic. In this blog I want to discuss the importance of this topic. The most important thing in this topic is for researchers to understand the direction that needs to be taken in regards to online learning. The fact that most of the past research has been asking is it successful, has only helped the critics case against online learning. We need to focus the research on what makes these programs successful or unsuccesful. We need to make those that fear this type of education understand that it is a means to aid the current way education is presented, as well that it is a way to reach those students that we are losing to things such as dropping out of school, falling behind, etc. In order to make current online programs better, teachers and students alike need to be trained for this type of education!