Share Paper: An Open Source Learning System for K to 12 Homeschoolers in Developing Nations

  1. Maria eLiza Cornejo, myhill of St. John Bosco Parish Makati, Philippines, Philippines

Abstract: Googling the key strings "data on the increase of homeschoolers worldwide" will lead you to hundreds, if not thousands, of current data and information that will show the rise in home schooling learners worldwide. Most of the distance learning courses to date cater to post-secondary, tertiary and secondary tertiary education. This is a logical development considering that distance education, which began in the early 1700s and 1800s in Europe and the U.S., catered to technical and vocational forms of learning. Though there is minimal data and research on the growth and history of distance education in the primary and secondary ...