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__**The Social Impact of Online Learning**__
With the internet becoming a more widely integrated tool into our daily lives, the popularity of online learning and online classrooms are experiencing considerable growth across the nation. Educators in favor of online learning list a number of advantages including convenience, more personalized instruction and more openly interactive discussions. However, our current models of schooling often rely heavily on personal student-teacher interaction and live discussions to make up the classroom dynamic. Considering such large social context differences between the online and real life classrooms, one may naturally wonder about the social development implications of moving to online schools. How does moving towards e-learning systems possibly affect the social development of its students in positive and negative ways? In this paper we seek to understand how our educators, scientists and administrators have sought to answer this question.
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