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| Online Education vs. Public Schooling | Critical innovation in education 
Progress is unavoidable and sometimes it is difficult to reflect on its future impacts. Notwithstanding all its ulterior dangers and unexpected consequences progress and technological advances are moving onward, affecting all spheres of our life.
Virtual schooling or online education is a case in point. It is mainly impossible to predicate the future of this innovation, because the concept of online education is still emerging, related technology is constantly changing and there is no one single model of virtual school.
Such unconventional form of education became one of the most controversial and moot educational issues in the 21st century, which still raises heated debate and forms an apple of discord between scholars. Rapid, spontaneous development of virtual schooling and its blended use of traditional content and technology has garnered much interest and raised many new questions.
Some studies determine virtual schooling as a "critical innovation in education", which still needs serious consideration and examination, and underline that online education is a work in progress, which is exceptional by a wide range of educational opportunities it offers to learners.
Although, some students attending virtual schools looks fairly small right now, the numbers enrolled are expected to grow quickly to more than half a million students this academic year.
The attractiveness of virtual education can be easily explained by the minimum requirements for students to participate in online course. The only thing a virtual student needs is access to a computer, the Internet, motivation and courage to succeed in nontraditional form of education
Find out how you can benefit from studying online:
• Learning is unscheduled: you don't have to attend classes on regular basis. Choose to work and study at any time of the day you like. A good responsibility, though, for education falls on your shoulders and you are to be very self-disciplined and have a desire to succeed in your studying.
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