Mounds View high schools will take one step further into the computer age next year.

The district plans to offer several online classes to juniors and seniors. Students who have registered for those classes will spend 60 to 80 percent of their course time on the computer, either at home or in a computer lab at Mounds View High School in Arden Hills and Irondale High School in New Brighton. Classroom time will be arranged by the instructor and might take the form of a once-a-week seminar, said RoAnne Elliott, Mounds View schools director of curriculum and instruction. Elliott calls the online courses “hybrid” because they combine classroom and online study.

“The teacher might say, ‘If I’ve got 30 kids in this hybrid course, instead of meeting all of them, I’m going to break the class into smaller groups, or meet all at the same time, ” Elliott said. “You can have a day where the teacher can meet with individual students, or small groups of students.”

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