online may further encourage or allow the continuance of misbehavior such as trolling. Online schools may be too lenient or disengaging, thus may potentially encourage or harbor potentially damaging and undisciplined behavior that could threaten a student's future or career. Not using the physical tools might diminish a student's ability or competence. Online can be potentially limiting since physical activities or hands on activities, specifically for courses like Physical education, Art, and Chemistry, may be more difficult to engage in or occur less frequent. Online classes might take away the value of the active elements that some courses require, and do not offer the same teacher-student relationships. Students might also not experience the same critical thinking, observation, creating, and creative skills. Studies Online Education providers in the United Kingdom are not currently eligible for accreditation by the Department for Education and therefore it is difficult to measure quality of providers. Following a consultation process that began in 2019, The DFE and Ofsted are currently working towards a pilot online education provider accreditation scheme using a variation of the Independent School Inspectorate Inspection framework. As claimed in a study done by Eric Bettinger and Susanna Loeb, on average, online students "do substantially worse than students in the same face-to-face course". Furthermore, students who attend K-12 online consistently perform worse on state tests than their peers in brick and mortar environments, even when taking into account prior achievement. See also Educational technology List of virtual schools School website Virtual campus Virtual learning environment Virtual school library Online university University of the People References Alternative education Distance education Educational technology Internet culture