Faculty members from UNC-W and teachers from the Duplin county schools are looking at programs around the state designed to improve education. Learn concepts, not steps and skills, try to generalize, don t be scared to try new things and most of all - keep in touch with peers or mentors who know more. Certainly teachers won't have as much time for retraining, so school districts will need to develop ongoing programs to retrain teachers. It won't do a whole lot of good to supply teachers with the technology without a clear idea of how it can be used to enhance the educational process. Once programs are set up, schools will need to determine what teachers know, what they want teachers to know, and what they need to learn.
Virtual classrooms are recent developments.
There will be improved stage setting in K-5 such that students in 6th grade up will be positioned to use the tech for collaboration projects, distance offerings, etc. Relatively few faculty members are using Web-enabled delivery systems. Just a small knowledge base and people in a comfort zone with older methods of instruction. A major challenge is to get faculty members interested in being Web-based learning providers. I would say for students who grew up in the Nintendo generation, this would be apparent.