Is Online Learning for Everybody?.

Kearsley, Greg

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Publication Date: 2002

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Is Online Learning for Everybody?

Kearsley, Greg

Educational Technology, v42 n1 p41-44 Jan-Feb 2002

Suggests reasons why online learning may not be appropriate for all situations. Discusses barriers for students, including self-discipline, initiative, and convenient access to computers and the Internet; barriers for teachers and administrators; suitability for course content; organizational and institutional barriers; cultural differences; and K-12 educational problems. (LRW)

Descriptors: Access to Computers, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Appropriate Technology, Course Content, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Online Courses, Organizational Climate, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Characteristics

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Language: English

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