The use of online classes as either recovery or supplemental courses is growing. This New York Times news article looks at the issues surrounding online courses. Advocates champion them while critics challenge their quality and the financial motives behind them.

To read the article click on NY Times.

In chapter 3 of The School Leadership Triangle, Paul Kimmelman presents several examples of promising innovative ideas in the field of education that include online learning.  One example. Advanced Academics, partners with schools and districts in aproximately 30 states (including Oklahoma) to provide full-time online high schools using highly qualified teachers to work their accredited, web-based learning management system.  

On page 111 Kimmelman predicts, "Online education will be transformational; over time it will radically change how schools operate.  It offers opportunities heretofore not available to students in some very rural areas or in school districts that can't find teachers in hard-to-staff subjects such as physics, foreign language, and special education. Only time will tell whether online education will be the breakthrough that many believe, but it is an innovation that is gaining acceptance on a much larger scale.  Perhaps it will be like the laser in eye surgery and present the first real breakthrough in changing the amount of time students spend in school for classes".