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Distance Learning Options for Smaller Montana Schools

Link: Distance learning: Partial answer for Montana students at smaller schools - billingsgazette.com.

Distance Learning: Partial Answer for Montana Students at Smaller Schools
November 7, 2005
Last modified November 7, 2005 - 12:23 am
By LORNA THACKERAY of The Gazette Staff

Meghan Combs loaded her final year at Fromberg High School with eight credits. She juggles government, English, calculus, art, band, choir, chemistry and agriculture technology in classrooms surrounded by other students. But for her physics class, it's just her, her computer and an online instructor 250 miles away at C.M. Russell High School in Great Falls.

Distance learning classes seen as boon to state's rural schools - billingsgazette.com

Link: Distance learning classes seen as boon to state's rural schools - billingsgazette.com.

HELENA - More than 40 school districts will offer dozens of online courses to public, private and home-schooled students across the state starting next month under a new distance learning program. Class registration for the Montana Schools E-Learning Consortium began recently and runs through Sept. 15, although students can sign up throughout the school year, project manager Leanne West said. Some 35 courses will be offered by 44 participating districts. They will primarily be taught over the Internet, with students attending classes and interacting with teachers through streaming video on a computer. Tests and assignments will be downloaded off the Web.