E-Learning in America : A Brief Overview of Its Development and Place in Education

This article examines the present day trends of e-learning on American high school and university campuses. Traditional four-year universities with a mostly traditional student population are gradually incorporating e-learning or online courses into their degree programs and various curricula offered. Community colleges are more and more offering online instruction to their less traditional student population. Beyond the university level of education,online learning,through cyber classes and even cyber high schools are making an impact across the United States in high schools and high school education. Perhaps the biggest change though can be noted in the incorporation and use of online textbooks at the junior high and senior high school levels. As e-learning increases at the secondary level of education,the university level will need to change to meet the needs and demands of the young students who will be entering university campuses across the country in the near future