ACCESS

The Alabama Department of Education has created a program called Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide (ACCESS) Distant Learning. This program ws incorporated to allow public high school students to take classes at other schools via the internet which are not offered at their particular high school. The purpose of this program is to provide an infrastructure that delivers quality learning oppurtunities for all citizens.

This program is a great asset to the public school system. It allows schools to create more competively motivated students. Students are able to learn more diversely about a wide range of subjects due to the program. This also creates a new uique approach to learning and communication. By offering the course via internet the student is able to become more responsible because he will be responsible for completing the work on his own and will become more technologically advanced because he will have to learn how to navigate through any programs that are used.

Although the program is awesome and creates new advancement for public schools and the students that attend those schools, it has a costly budget. The budget may cause an increase in taxes. Also, since the program offers course that are avaliable at certain schools, this may also lead to job cuts. Teachers can be replaced by online sessions. Students being taught by online sessions may hinder them from effectively learning. They may not be encouraged to work as hard because they may not form a personal bond with the teacher, which would be easier to create with one-on-one human contact. The students may not complete assignments or feel compelled to work hard. Some students may be intimidated by the method of teaching. For more information folow the provided link. http://accessdl.state.al.us