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Posts tagged with "blended-learning"

VSHOOLZ Partners With Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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by edReformer Staff August 11, 2011

Virtual school provider VSCHOOLZ announced today that it is partnering with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), an educational products and services provider, to provide traditional course content online to schools or districts looking for blended learning programs. More »

NACSA Releases Viewpoint On Authorizing Online Learning

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by Sarah Cargill August 10, 2011

The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) released today “Authorizing Online Learning,” a Viewpoint article by iNACOL President and CEO Susan Patrick and Chair Tom Vander Ark that targets key questions around authorization, enrollment and funding of online learning. More »

Managing the Mobile Learner

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by Bryan Setser August 9, 2011

This week’s blog looks at managing mobile learners who will be equipped with smart devices and expectations of support that are going to go well beyond anything Goodlad could have imagined. More »

Students deserve access to quality digital content & online courses

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by Tom Vander Ark August 8, 2011

Digital Learning Now released a video on Element 2, student access. It recommends that all students have access to quality content and courses. More »

All students are digital learners

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by Tom Vander Ark August 3, 2011

“All students are digital learners.” Digital Learning Now recommends a statewide multi-provider environment with no barriers to enrollment and it suggests that states should be proactive about sharing content and resources with schools and students. More »

Edtech Roundup: Online Learning, Deeper Learning Assessments and Digital Learning Growth

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by Sarah Cargill August 1, 2011

This week in edtech, TheNextWeb announced its hub in the Silicon Valley, Texas approves new all-digital and online learning programs, NBC donated its “NBC Learn K-12″ resource to Delaware, AEE called for deeper learning assessments in its policy brief and Pearson poised for more acquisitions. More »

Blended Learning & Community Based Organizations

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by Tom Vander Ark July 28, 2011

Community based organizations and new learning technologies will be part of the quest for more and better learning time in America. More »

Christensen and Eyring Assess the Future DNA of Education in The Innovative University

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by Sarah Cargill July 27, 2011

Clayton Christensen and Henry J. Eyring’s forthcoming book “The Innovative University” tackles the question of how to increase quality, performance and demand for higher education while continuing to cut costs to reduce tuition inflation by changing the DNA of colleges and universities. More »

Promoting Quality Online Learning

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by Tom Vander Ark July 26, 2011

Fordham is launching a series of working papers on digital learning. Rick Hess makes an important contribution with the first paper focused on quality More »

How to shift kid’s media time to learning?

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by Tom Vander Ark July 22, 2011

Three strategies to shift a portion of the time young people spend on entertainment/media to productive learning activities More »

Do the Classroom Flip: Humanizing School Through Technology

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by Chris Sturgis July 19, 2011

Chris Sturgis discusses many of the advancements in regards to technology in the classroom. More »

Parents Promote Disruptive Innovation

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by Tom Vander Ark July 18, 2011

Michael Horn spoke to the National Coalition Public School Options–an extraordinary network of parents that advocate for educational options for families particularly online learning. More »

Contenders

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by Bryan Setser July 14, 2011

School districts are no longer just competing against the local private school; rather they are competing with education over the net and the global market place as well. Now more than ever we need contenders. More »

KIPP Blend Promising

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by edReformer Staff July 14, 2011

KIPP Empower Academy in Los Angeles presented some amazing results from their blended learning pilot at the New School Summit. More »

County Superintendents Consider Innovation

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by Tom Vander Ark July 12, 2011

ASA County Superintendents meeting in Washington DC was sponsored by the Pearson Foundation. They considered learning tech and school improvement today. More »

Vision 1 – Stay the Course

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by Mickey Muldoon July 11, 2011

No, classrooms don’t look dramatically different than they did a century ago. But who can we blame? Once you build a school, it’s not too easy to “reimagine” the classroom when the physical space and walls are a certain size and furniture has already been bought. More »

10 reasons teachers love blended learning

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by Tom Vander Ark July 11, 2011

Here’s 10 ways that incorporating online learning into the school day can benefit teachers as well as students More »

You’re Already BYOT But You Won’t Admit It

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by Tom Vander Ark July 9, 2011

Jill Hobson told superintendents at ERDI in Atlanta that kids are contributing to a high access computing environment whether we want to acknowledge it or not. More »

The Pivot to Personal Digital Learning in OK

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by Caroline Vander Ark July 8, 2011

Opening with the famous first sentence of The Road Less Traveled, Tom Vander Ark spoke to an audience of superintendents, administrators and teacher’s this morning in Oklahoma City, OK at Innovation 2011. More »

2x Time with Digital Learning

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by Tom Vander Ark July 8, 2011

Personal digital learning and partnerships with community based organizations have the potential to double learning time for kids that need it most More »

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TASC Reports After-School Programs Equalize Tech Access For Students

tvanderark: SLC launches Innovations High School; very cool model,