Here are a couple of interesting quotations from a recent article about virtual learning and schooling on Education Week.

‘“We know it’s ‘as good as, if not better,’ in terms of student achievement,” says Rick E. Ferdig, an associate professor of educational technology at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, who runs the Virtual School Clearinghouse research project. The project enables states to analyze their own statistics and pool data, making it publicly available for researchers to conduct studies.’

‘Cavanaugh says some of the states that are starting to see good results are also using adaptive-intelligence technology that allows students to skip over content they’ve already mastered and move on to the concepts that give them trouble.’

The article also goes on to mention that there is still a lot to be learned in terms of which methods work and which don’t.

If you have any experience with virtual schooling, please share!