Advertisements Image Credit Blended Learning: First, in all of the blended programs, the students learn in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home at least
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Starting an Online Program: The Target Student Group
Advertisements Image Credit School administrators are being bombarded with encouragement to use digital learning in their classrooms. Neighboring districts may be employing blended learning or
Read moreInnovation and Democracy
Advertisements Image Credit Is innovation a democratic process? Innovate: to introduce something new; make changes in anything established. (reference) In Disrupting Class, author Clayton Christen informs school boards that introducing digital learning
Read moreStudent-Teacher Interaction Essential in Online Courses
Advertisements (Click the image to see it larger.) Student-teacher interaction is essential in online courses. Online courses require rich content that includes many modalities for
Read moreGood Advice for School Technology Leaders
Advertisements Image Credit In the May 21 issue of Forbes, the article “Thrifty Does It,” describes how Christian Gheorghe Hates started a billion dollar company
Read moreDeregulation of Education 3: Show Me The Money
Advertisements Image Credit Wes Freyer recently reported on a digital learning conference in Oklahoma. In this report he included a video about the money potential
Read moreNormal is Revolutionary
Advertisements Image Credit “What’s revolutionary for adults is normal for kids,” stated Jaime Casap of Google to technology leaders at a meeting of the Illinois Chief Technology
Read moreTechnology is Distraction in Schools
Advertisements Image Credit Ron Packard of K12.com spoke today at an Illinois Policy Institute program today in Chicago. He thinks technology is a distraction in schools because
Read moreOnline learning: Shouldn’t We Do better?
Advertisements Image Credit With online learning, shouldn’t we do better? Shouldn’t we have higher expectations? Shouldn’t we stop telling partial truths? Partial truths don’t help
Read moreNotes From the Virtual School Symposium 2011
Advertisements Over 1,900 conferees assembled in Indianapolis for the Virtual School Symposium November 9-11, 2011. My notes from the day follow. A wiki is available for
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