Freemium U
Scott Hines is the president of World Education University (WEU). He's also mayor of the city of Rancho Mirage, CA. While this may turn out to be University Mirage, you should pay attention to this business model.
SMARTER Balanced and PARCC to Launch New Technology Readiness Tool to Support Transition to Online Assessments
The SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) in assistance with the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) announced today a contract with Pearson to develop a new, open source Technology Readiness Tool with federal Race to the Top (RTTT) Assessment Program grants.
If Online Courses Support Personalized Learning, Then Why Aren’t We Using Them?
We say that we want students to own their education, to be invested in what and why they are learning, but are we realistically putting them in a position to want to learn? Online courses provide an opportunity for schools across the country to offer a larger variety of courses with expert teachers.
@NewSchools Summit, Three Reasons We Can Never Turn Off the Web
At the first day of the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit, a question about schools being safe havens from the wired and wireless world made me think of the three reasons we cannot steer kids from a wired learning environment.
A 2020 Vision for Riverside Unified School District
By: David Haglund The introduction of information technologies into virtually every aspect of our lives has led education leaders, parents, and students to think differently about where and how learning takes place. Traditional concepts of schools, classrooms, and learning are being challenged as technologies introduce new ideas and capabilities into the system and new school models are emerging (e.g., Riverside Virtual School www.rvslink.net). Beyond the school walls, the global business market is demanding a new set of skills from college graduates and has an increasingly growing pool of workers from which to draw the best qualified employees.
I don’t read books
After 28 years of reading a book a week, I’ve only read a handful in the last two years—none in print format. I’m reading more than ever, just not the hardbound books that line my library. It’s a case study of one but part of a…
Video and Q&A: Barbara Dreyer, CEO, Connections Academy
Barbara Dreyer talks with edReformer in the curriculum headquarters at Connections Academy, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Identifying & Meeting Student Needs Is Getting Easier With lookred
After spending a day with Microsoft Innovative Schools and before visiting BETT, I toured Cornwallis Academy, a K-12 school outside of London and managed by the Future Schools Trust. The leadership team demonstrated lookred®, an information system key to their approach to "personalise" learning and "pastoral care."
Good Work: Making Tough Decisions
Decisions define an organization. Before you fill an open position, step back and look at the decision. It is often a great opportunity to reconsider the structure, to ensure that the organization still meets the challenges at hand. Avoid budgeting processes that assume that everything should be allocated the same way that it was the year before. Spending money and hiring people are often important crossroads.