Schools already offer more than 200 courses online, and students have had the option to take them since 2004. The province also plans to increase average high school class sizes from 22 to 28 students and online courses will have 35 students, cutting at least 3,500 teaching positions. Under the province’s changes, as many as 630,000 high school students will be enrolled in e-learning at any one time, a tenfold increase. At some schools, eight students share one computer, at others there’s a computer for every student. She found that online courses left out the emotional part of learning that often motivates students to succeed.

Source: Huffington Post May 16, 2019 12:11 UTC