Now is the time for educators to develop online course work. That way, they next time bus driver/teacher strike, students won't be penalized.

Online courses have been around for quite some time.

My daughter's college shutdown last Monday and is planning on online courses this coming Monday. Wondering myself how it will go, as they have never done it before.

Elearning is fairly common these days. I had several on-line classes in college and really enjoyed the flexibility and not having to drive to campus. I found on line classes typically required much more work and because of that I preferred classroom instruction.

My district has Elearning days in the schedule already(election days), we also use them for snow/inclement weather. I have put a huge chunk of my coursework on line but that is not the same as a long term plan For 100% on line instruction.

I will say, it's a crap ton more work than face-to-face teaching, but our pilot day today went really well from both the student and faculty perspective.

There are a LOT of learning tools out there, so the curve is very steep if you haven't used them and have to suddenly confront them all on short notice. They also are quite time consuming to create online content. Really easy if you use it from year to year and can port it over, but creating it anew is arduous.

I'm very happy that we shifted our schedule to accommodate online learning, so we only see kids 3 times a week instead of 4 in our normal schedule, and there are only 4 periods a day instead of the usual 6.

Granted, we're only one day in and spring break starts on Friday, but we're out until at least April 14, so, based on the reactions I saw today, we might have a good time with this new endeavour during the Coronageddon.

Next September should be interesting. I'll have one in high-school and two in college. Maybe.

My aikido dojo will be continuing classes via live webinar.

Specifically High School and Middle school.

I know. I just kind of tossed that in. They will be doing even the childrens' classes by webinar. That should be interesting.

It is a good point you brought up. Although online learning has been around a while, implementing it on a universal contingency basis is quite a quantum leap up.

"Mommy can you do my homework for me?"

The biggest disadvantage to E-Learning is access to quality high speed internet. Most of the country is not set up with fiber optic internet, so the impact on rural populations is tremendous. I've been working with my local government to get access throughout the county in which I live, but they'd rather spend 40 Million dollars on a joint water pipeline project that would only service a small part of the county's population. We need to build the infrastructure to allow access for all, not just densely populated portions of the country. This should be a public utility.

We used to have to do mandated annual training via a program called “moodle”. It was run by county community college. Completely sucked.

It took all of one year before everyone figured out how to defeat its required time spent on screen. We all just opened different windows and opened all the subjects, went to the end and took the quizzes.

The state or the brass figured it out and the next year the quizzes were unavailable until the lecture had played. We all just opened them, let them play while we went to the streets and worked and in an hour came in and took the quizzes.

I personally learn better in a classroom with a live human type product teaching.

I did an entire degree online. It allows a lot of flexibility.

My kids have been doing Virtual School the entire year.

Too expensive ... just email them diplomas!

My wife has been doing E learning for 3 days now. She puts in 10 hours a day for her 3 math classes. If the students don't want to do the work in school, then for some, learning at home will fail. She has set class hours, video lessons, corrected the work and sent it back. Now, she has been getting too many emails stating the students were busy and didn't get to do the work. I have observed in class that a number of students will always try to do their best, some will try sometimes, and some will never try and blame everyone but themselves for their lazyness.