In Jonathan Zittrain's class on Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, students respond each week to a question posted on the Web, and the answers are automatically routed to another student -- or, perhaps, the author of the pertinent article -- for comments.
Parents can also boost their computer skills with a class on Internet safety, setting up email accounts and communicating with teachers through those accounts.
Now it's getting to the point where you can take classes on the Internet".
"I decided to be more of a generalist, taking a term of classes on the internet, a term on finance and on entertainment and marketing, for example.
Darwitz left high school in her junior year to train in Lake Placid for the world championships, taking correspondence classes on the Internet, earning honors.
I have taken college classes during my summers off, but it's tough to fit traditional learning into my work schedule so I take classes on the Internet when I can.
"Other families have their girls home-schooled or taking classes on the Internet, but we never put Rachael's education on the back burner for skating," Jody Flatt, her mother, said.
"This is like, prime time," said Evan Barton, 17, a competitive surfer who takes high school classes on the Internet, thus allowing him to begin his surfing day at 8 a.m.
"What formerly required significant overhead to be successful is now trivial," said Nicco Mele, who teaches classes on the Internet and politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and is the author of the book "The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath".
MOOCs literally offered college classes on the internet.
