Online Learning: Introduction to E-learning

<h1>Online Learning: Introduction to E-learning</h1>Author: <a title="Mimi Rothschild" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/mimi-rothschild/21745.htm">Mimi Rothschild</a> E-learning is a fantastic technology that allows The Jubilee Academy to provide home-schooling curriculum to thousands of families across the globe. But how did we get to the point where technology gave us this capability? Let's take a look at the history of e-learning.

The PLATO System was the first e-learning system developed for use in a higher learning setting. Since then, e-learning has been used in every level of education, from elementary schools all the way up through graduate programs and even in corporate training. Online home-schooling technology has only been around for the last few years. The Jubilee Academy was one of the first schools offering this type of learning.

By 2003, over a million students were using e-learning technologies in colleges and universities. At the time, almost all public institutes of higher learning utilized online learning software while only half of private colleges offered similar programs.

Today, more than just colleges use e-learning. The Jubilee Academy, for instance, offers K-12 home-schooling curriculum that is accessed online. The advent of streaming video and other high-level technologies allow us to offer a rich variety of multimedia presentations through our curriculum. This way, students in even the most remote locations are able to receive a quality K-12 home-school education.

What will be the future of e-learning? What can we say about e-learning vs traditional public schooling or home-schooling? This nascent technology appears to have some major advantages over the classroom environment. Only time will tell if e-learning will replace the classroom entirely.

About the Author: Mimi Rothschild is a homeschooling parent, children's rights activist, author, and Founder and C.E.O. of online education company Learning by Grace, Inc. Rothschild and her husband of twenty-eight years reside in suburban Philadelphia with their eight children. 
 
Feeling that "our current system of education has broken its promise," Rothschild co-founded Learning By Grace, Inc. to provide families with Internet-based multimedia education to PreK-12 children all over the world. 
 
In addition to her twenty years of experience as a homeschool mother, Rothschild has written a number of books dealing with education published by McGraw Hill and others. Her 
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E-learning is a fantastic technology that allows The Jubilee Academy to provide home-schooling curriculum to thousands of families across the globe. But how did we get to the point where technology gave us this capability? Let's take a look at the history of e-learning.

The PLATO System was the first e-learning system developed for use in a higher learning setting. Since then, e-learning has been used in every level of education, from elementary schools all the way up through graduate programs and even in corporate training. Online home-schooling technology has only been around for the last few years. The Jubilee Academy was one of the first schools offering this type of learning.

By 2003, over a million students were using e-learning technologies in colleges and universities. At the time, almost all public institutes of higher learning utilized online learning software while only half of private colleges offered similar programs.

Today, more than just colleges use e-learning. The Jubilee Academy, for instance, offers K-12 home-schooling curriculum that is accessed online. The advent of streaming video and other high-level technologies allow us to offer a rich variety of multimedia presentations through our curriculum. This way, students in even the most remote locations are able to receive a quality K-12 home-school education.

What will be the future of e-learning? What can we say about e-learning vs traditional public schooling or home-schooling? This nascent technology appears to have some major advantages over the classroom environment. Only time will tell if e-learning will replace the classroom entirely.

Mimi Rothschild is a homeschooling parent, children's rights activist, author, and Founder and C.E.O. of online education company Learning by Grace, Inc. Rothschild and her husband of twenty-eight years reside in suburban Philadelphia with their eight children.

Feeling that "our current system of education has broken its promise," Rothschild co-founded Learning By Grace, Inc. to provide families with Internet-based multimedia education to PreK-12 children all over the world.

In addition to her twenty years of experience as a homeschool mother, Rothschild has written a number of books dealing with education published by McGraw Hill and others. Her
Home Education Websites Blog consists of helpful online content and activities for Christian homeschooling families

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