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The more established cyber charter schools offer students a full range of supplemental programs which not only enhance the curriculum choices that are offered, but they also provide support for students so that they can become as successful as possible in an on line environment. Some of these supplemental programs include: Student Assistance Program for students who may be struggling with other areas in their life and not just academics. Open tutoring for those students that require extra support, Guidance Counseling, Title 1 Reading, Gifted Education Services, Special Education Services, Field Trips to enhance socialization in a cyber environment, Study Island to help students improve their math and reading skills to prepare them for state testing, and Early College Scholarships. Students are also assigned to a supervisor shortly after enrollment. This supervisor is the main point of contact initially, and acts in a an advisory capacity to support students throughout their on line education. They monitor student progress and act as liaisons for students, families, staff, and administration to provide continuous communication and guidance.

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E-Learning has now been adopted and used by various companies to inform & educate both their employees and customers. Companies with large and spread out distribution chains use it to educate their sales staff as to the latest product developments without the need of organizing physical courses. Compliance has also been a big field of growth with banks using it to keep their staff's CPD's level up.

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In the early 1960s, Stanford University psychology professors Patrick Suppes and Richard C. Atkinson experimented with using computers to teach math and reading to young children in elementary schools in East Palo Alto, California. Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth is descended from those early experiments. In 1963, Bernard Luskin installed the first computer in a community college for...