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Students go extra mile in distance learning

February 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Lynn Honeycutt, foreign language department chair, teaches German to her students at UCHS, and Greeneville High School. Last year, Lisa Lyle taught AP Calculus on distance learning to her UCHS students and to students at Johnson County High School.

On Saturday, The Erwin Record met with Jason Horne, the virtual learning coordinator from the Greeneville City School system. He explained that virtual learning is just in its early stages, saying that “it keeps growing.”

“With the new graduation requirements from the Tennessee Diploma Project, virtual learning is able to offer elective and other courses at no cost to the school system,” he said.

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Federal grant brings rigorous distance learning opportunities to rural TN students

October 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

It will give rural students access to rigorous classes through online and distance learning.

Greene County Schools is one of 15 Tennessee school systems that will share the grant. They’ve formed a consortium to serve 28 high schools and 26,000 students.

Christy Hoeke teaches Latin to classes at four Greene County High Schools at the same time.

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Virtual learning

October 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The video-conferencing technology makes it possible for schools of any size to offer classes to which they might not otherwise have access.

“Being a small school, we didn’t have a certified physics teacher,” said Fox, who teaches chemistry and biology at Cascade. “But we have students who wanted to take it.”

Cascade principal Sharon Edwards helped others change that, bringing the Central High School physics class to Cascade via the schools long-distance learning equipment, purchased earlier with a grant.

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THS asst. principal leads distance learning effort

July 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

BRISTOL, Tenn. – Tennessee High School Assistant Principal Blair Henley admits that when he was first assigned to make Bristol’s school district a regional leader for online learning, the early results were humbling.

“It wasn’t smooth, instant success,” Henley said. “When we started, only 40 percent of the students who started [an online] course would actually finish it.”

Some three years later – with 97 percent of students completing their online classes and 71 students across Northeast Tennessee taking “eLearning” courses this summer alone – Henley sees a promising present and future.

“I think eLearning has become an area that’s set to explode here,” he said.

Henley was recently promoted to regional distance learning coordinator by the Bristol school district and the Niswonger Foundation, a Greeneville, Tenn.-based nonprofit organization that promotes education across Tennessee.

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