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Is Online Learning Limitless?

Learning in a virtual setting offers many unique and powerful opportunities for learners.  With the explosion of information available daily through online resources, such as the media, companies, government websites, and many others, the Internet is a portal of rich knowledge and understanding.  Does this mean online learning is limitless?

 

Today’s K-12 learners must be able to know and do more than just finding and reciting facts – they have to use the information they find to interpret, analyze, and problem solve. Simply having access to the online world of information and resources doesn’t equate to learning, which is why having state-certified teachers to guide and facilitate the online learning process is key to a student’s academic success. 

 

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To be effective, online learning opportunities must be connected to a purpose.  From online elementary schooling options to graduate degree college programs, the online learner is a part of a planned and purposeful community of learners that explore and learn together.  Teachers facilitating the learning in those communities are charged not with presenting information, but rather guiding the learning process. 

 

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At Great Lakes Cyber Academy, Michigan-certified teachers are able to deliver personalized instruction tailored to fit a student’s needs with options and resources that may not be available in many traditional learning environments, including the flexibility of three pacing options for high school graduation.

 

With online learning, students have access to powerful technology tools, award-winning curriculum, real-time instruction, and flexibility, not to mention multiple resources and viewpoints.  Online learning opens up access, and isn’t limited to one outdated resource or point of view.  Online learning is limitless in its possibilities.  

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