Giving Compass' Take:

• As education prices rise, a lot of today’s students have to work on the side. NAIT is a school that is finding ways to make certain courses accessible for online learning so students can actually complete their required credentials.

• Should donors be looking into funding more online schools?

• Here's another example on learning more about online education. 

One of the great challenges for any educator is how do you teach and test students on real world problems, not just on theoretical textbook examples?

Real world problems are exciting to solve but devilishly hard to assess, especially when there are many students involved. Yet that’s just the approach that Mark Schneider is helping lead at NAIT, a 40,000-student polytechnic school that offers one of Canada’s biggest apprenticeship programs.

All students—not just digital natives—expect learning resources to be rich with animation or digital learning objects that make learning more realistic and relevant.

What’s made the work possible, Schneider says, is a special combination of online learning tools that is helping NAIT educate students so they are prepared for the complexities and responsibilities of real world situations from the day they graduate.

Read the full article about online education by Wendy McMahon at EdSurge