Boise State’s College of Education is seeing strong demand to train students to teach online. The college’s EdTech department is one of the largest university-based providers of training for K-12 online teachers in the country and has provided professional development for many virtual and supplemental programs, including Idaho Digital Learning Academy, Connections Academy, K-12 Inc. and California Virtual Academy.

A recent article in ReadWriteWeb talks about all the different uses that educators are finding for Skype and how the classroom walls are actually breaking down as teachers bring in lecturers, artists and other professionals to speak to their pupils through this website.