Advanced Placement Courses Online
Gill, Kathy
ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSES OFFERED ONLINE
Several new services have begun to offer Advanced Placement classes to high
school students over the Internet. Only about half of American high schools
offer any AP classes in their curriculum. Since many schools simply don't
have funding for the limited enrollment advanced courses, some are starting
to turn to the World Wide Web to help teach ambitious students. These online
courses are challenging both the abilities of students to pace themselves
and the technical capacities of companies to present complex material to
far-flung students. Elizabeth J. Hanson, a high school senior enrolled in an
Web AP class offered by APEX Online learning, noted that students like
herself "don't have a teacher saying 'You have to turn this paper in next
week or you get an 'F.' You have to be self-disciplined." Sally Narodick,
chief executive of APEX, observed that several schools had experienced
technical problems at the beginning of the semester. "It's a learning curve
for us, too."
[SOURCE: CyberTimes, AUTHOR: Pamela Mendels]
(http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/cyber/education/28education.html)
Kathy
Kathy E. Gill
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