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April 24, 2006
Michigan Online Course Requirement
The Michigan legislature has enacted a law requireing that alll high school students take an online course or learning experience, or have the online learning experience incorporated into each of the required 16 credits of the Michigan Merit Curriculum. (Science, Mathematics, English, Foreign Languages, Physical Education or Health, and the Arts provide the curriculum framework for the requirement.) [1]
A Michigan Virtual High School (operating as the Michigan Virtual University, http://www.mivu.org/) currently provides some of the required courses and experiences.
An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a Michigan requires online attendance, has sparked a discussion about the merits and not of the plan. The discussion follows the normal discourse : it's not the right answer for everyone (nothing is the right answer for everyone); we didn't have this requirement when I was in school (neither did any of us), etc.
[1] PNNOnline, Michigan First State to Require Online Learning, Monday, April 24, 2006/ http://www.pnnonline.org/article.php?sid=6678&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
[2] Wired Campus, Michigan Requires Online Attendance, The Chronicle of Higher Edcatuibm April 20, 2006. http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1193/michigan-requires-online-attendance
Posted by sjc at April 24, 2006 1:44 PM
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