While established education has resisted and debated engaging online knowledge and lessons, the commercial training industry has quietly moved in great part into the virtual environment. For example, the construction industry offers dozens of excellent free courses here. While Dads and Moms who are door/windows installation company managers or workers can learn their stuff online, their kids spend most schooldays trying to understand stuff found in the same paper and chalk media their parents and grandparents used. Dad and Mom can get certified online; the kids get report cards.
As GoldenSwamp.com features daily, there are bountiful free, open websites for school subjects. The difference is that K-12 in general views online resources as suplementary, if they expect students to engage them at all. For more and more of the training industry, the online material is primary.
