K12 Inc. Annual Survey Examines Online & Blended Learning Implementations
K12 Inc. announced today that their annual survey of district and school leaders reports that school districts offered significantly more online learning opportunities during 2013 than were offered in 2012.
Teacher spotlight: Tom DeRosa
Tom DeRosa is a teacher, writer and blogger living in in the Rio Grande Valley. His blog I Want to Teach Forever is a great online resource for teachers -- and a good read too!
Vote Now for the #SchoolInfo Challenge
ExcelinEd and Getting Smart urge parents, teachers, and policy makers to vote in the My School Info Design Challenge as we work to reimagine the school report card.
It’s Time to Build a Better Transcript
There's a growing chasm between the information institutions capture about students and the type of information useful to students and future employers. Anecdotal evidence suggests that leading entrepreneurial businesses don’t even look at college transcripts, because the long list of cryptic course titles and credit hours don’t reveal what students actually learned.
PLATO Launches New STEM Courses & Customer Support
PLATO Learning, an online learning provider, announced this week the launch of its winter product release, which will expand its course offerings in STEM, language learning, and college preparedness as well as a support site for customers.
How Do I Blend My Network? And Other Great Questions From an Ohio Safari
The good news is that I was in good company at the Ohio Alliance of Public Charter Schools annual conference. Here are a couple of the topics we discussed.
Data, Evidence and Digital Learning
Have you noticed lately that MOOCs are all over the news? It’s hard to imagine that just a year ago, most people had never heard of Massive Open Online Courses—courses that hundreds of thousands of people all over the world take online, free of charge and that are rapidly growing in number.
How to shift kid's media time to learning?
Three strategies to shift a portion of the time young people spend on entertainment/media to productive learning activities
Executives & Academics Partner to Advance STEM Education & Careers
Most secondary students are bored and there aren't enough STEM graduates from college. These problems are related.