BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS
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Benefit to Students:
• Designed to teach required subjects for graduation
• Student’s learning experience is enhanced via flexible approaches to learning, teaching, and assessment, developed to meet the needs of students.
• Tailored to fit all learning styles, interests, and needs of students and families
• Lessons enhanced by graphics, stereo sound, and multimedia pictures
• Virtual courses allow students to study at a time and location that suits them.
• Virtual Learning Academies have shown improvement in student motivation and engagement, development of higher learning styles, and increased independent learning skills.
• Responsibility for learning placed with the student – essential ingredient for lifelong learning.
• Integrated feedback tools provide increased learning opportunities, build learning skills, and enhance student’s ability to think critically.
• Virtual Learning Academy’s provide opportunity for students who may have fallen behind.
• Individualized element of Virtual Learning ensures students do not fall through the cracks amidst a crowd of students.
• Instead of textbooks, students learn from the best libraries, museums, and information archives in the world.
• Students have more control over how and when they work
• Students find the work “easier and quicker to do,” despite the fact it is the same work they previously did with pen and paper.
• Students like the fact that they cannot forget to bring their work in, or lose it.
• User-friendly, comprehensive, and equitable access to high-quality Virtual Curriculum for students who need it most
• Virtual Learning Academy’s benefit students who cannot spend their days on campus when most classes are offered
Benefit to Parents:
• Parents are more able to engage in the school community, and in their child’s education
• Parents can easily monitor their student’s progress in real-time.
• Access to online content supports homework studies out of school hours.
