Education experts say school week could be cut, online lessons added

[Bri MT]

Hey! I am doing Distance Ed for English Language, and have met my teacher once as we had a seminar where we met up and spent the day learning Eng Lang. In chatting with the teacher she mentioned that "Not all students are cut out for distance ed", to me, this indicates that having everyone do online learning is a bad idea. I don't regret doing distance ed at all, and nor do many of my peers, but I have noticed that many students are months behind, some people at the conference reported having "no idea of the course", and it takes a while to get feedback. Some students also find it difficult to learn from the site, as in some ways it is similar to learning from a textbook. Accountability and motivation is definitely an issue for many, and some students who did distance ed in year 11 have admitted to cheating on their SACs.

If online learning was to be implemented as standard, there would need to be a major shift in student attitudes and skill sets. Maybe this online environment would be good as homework, or could be (sometimes) used in class, but I do not see it effectively replacing in-class learning. The effectiveness on online learning would also vary based on the subject, consider learning coding  versus a spoken language this way.