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Commercially Available Or Home-Grown: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of K-12 Online Courses, Susan Proffitt
Commercially Available Or Home-Grown: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of K-12 Online Courses, Susan Proffitt
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Online learning in K-12 education is becoming a familiar option for students. By the end of 2011, all 50 states and the District of Columbia offered some form of online learning as an option for some students (Watson, Murin, Vashaw, Gemin, & Rapp, 2011). Online courses are appealing to students for a variety of reasons. The five most common reasons schools are currently offering online courses are for: meeting the needs of specific groups of students; offering courses not otherwise available; offering AP or college level courses; permitting students who failed a course to take it again; and reducing scheduling …