The Future Of Online Education

Parent Choices for Struggling Teens featured the CEO of Blueprint Education-AZ, Doug Covey.  He talks about his experience in developing a business providing a wide variety of educational opportunities largely using the developing potentials of Online Education and what the future of education might be.

“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 http://www.latalkradio.com/Players/Lon-092611.shtml.

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.

Parent Choices for Struggling Teensis an internet talk radio show hosted by Lon Woodbury on www.LATalkRadio.comevery Monday noon PST. Each show has a guest(s) who is working on cutting edge methods and ideas to help struggling young people and their families. The archive of all the shows can be found at www.latalkradio.com/Lon.php.

Woodbury Reportswas founded in November 1989, by Lon Woodbury, MA, IECA, CEP, as an Independent Educational Consulting firm to help parents of teens making poor decisions select a private, parent choice program that would help return the family to normalcy.  Through interviews with parents, communication with professionals who know your child well, and then thoroughly researching viable options, we can help parents make the right choices that will help your child get back on the right path.  For more information about Woodbury Reports Inc., call 208-267-5550, or email to [email protected], or visit the web site www.strugglingteens.com.