Identify the key stakeholders

Re: Identify the key stakeholders

by Jo Ann Hammond-Meiers -
Number of replies: 1
Hi Guadalupe,
In your virtual high school you mentioned some very good reasons that people could choose DE. As a person who continues to be curious about and to examine how people become life -long learners and lifelong contributers, I think that high school students (adults and teens) who have good experiences will likely to continue online learning. I am encouraged by some of the accessibility work in Canada and the future possibilities. Online learning can equalize more -- or at least create some sense of fairness. In the various population groups, including those with diverse health conditions and some special needs, are you collecting data on what works for your students. Do you have some research or are you doing online evaluations? I know that all these applied e-learning situations take time to set up, but I think research data can be more easily collected from students who are already online. This may be another advantage of e-learning. Jo Ann
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Re: Identify the key stakeholders

by guadalupe vadillo -

Hi Jo Ann,

I agrre that DE is an important means to have more equity. In my country, where we have a terrible distribution of wealth (with around 50 million living in poverty and 0.4% possesing the same as more than 20% of the population), ED constitutes hope for hundrends of thousands. We are working with underprivileged people and they cherish the opportunity to continue studying their high school.

We are beginning to research some issues. The first work was on best practices on the use of the forum: we made a discourse analysis of the best tutor (in terms of retention and approval rates) and of the worst one. We found very interesting differences (in the first case, lots on human information, pride in working on line, love towards his subject area -Math-, and almost instant response).

We are now working on the characterization of students' Math and written expression entrance profiles (only teens), and the impact our courses have on both types of abilities.

Best, guadalupe