Education Week reports on e-learning opportunities for ESL/ELL students and notes that this is an underrepresented population in the online learning sphere for a variety of reasons. The article also mentions on campus resources that are helpful for the ESL/ELL students.
With the dual challenges of grasping a new language and keeping up with other academic studies, ELLs would seem poised to benefit greatly from the prospect of self-paced study, direct teacher correspondence without other students observing, and an adaptive curriculum. Yet, such students appear to represent one of the smallest slices of virtual student enrollment, and they typically encounter online learning through pathways that differ from the experiences of most online learners.
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