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The Future of
Online Education

"There are six different types of models evolving in which online education is blended with face-to-face education to better serve the individual needs of the students," said Doug Covey, CEO of Blueprint Education headquartered in Phoenix Arizona, on Lon Woodbury's Internet Talk Radio Show "Parent Choices for Struggling Teens" on September 26, 2011 on LATalkRadio.

"Evolving out of yesteryear's correspondence courses, online education has grown from about 45,000 enrolled in the year 2000 to an anticipated 10 million enrolled by the year 2014", continued Covey, "and it now includes rapid adoption of dual enrollment programs allowing high school students to access college level courses and receive college credit even when they are still a high school junior."

"The image of the online student being socially isolated has never been the typical online education experience because the blended models include face to face time with a teacher, experienced mentor or parent," pointed out Covey, "and blended learning models are adopting community based learning labs where students take online courses facilitated by a teacher, join neighborhood discussion sessions, and/or participate in service learning projects for a holistic education experience".

"It is this flexibility and meeting individual needs that might be duplicating the best from the old 'One-room schoolhouse' so famous in our nation's education history," concluded Covey, "to the extent that Online Education might just well be the 21st century equivalent of that old One-room schoolhouse that was so successful in its 19th century era."

To listen to the full interview with Doug Covey go to LATalkRadio.

Lon Woodbury, MA, IECA, CEP, is the owner/founder of Woodbury Reports Inc. and www.strugglingteens.com. He has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984 and is the Host of Parent Choices for Struggling Teens on LATalkRadio Mondays at 12:00 Noon, Pacific Time.

Doug Covey is the CEO of Blueprint Education, a 40 year old non-profit company providing curriculum and programs with over 220 fully accredited courses for students in all 50 states and 20 countries around the world.