blended learning
ExcelinEd Summit Focused on Students
The sessions at this year’s National Summit on Education Reform reflected growing recognition of the potential of personalized, digital learning to improve student access to high-quality educational options across the board.
The Digital Learning Opportunity & What it Means for School Finance
Learning opportunities are expanding and improving around the country. With online and blended learning, students are gaining access to personalized learning and expanded options.
Next-Gen World Language Learning
As the paper shows, there is no reason why all American students shouldn't have access to high-quality language instruction, thanks to advances in technology and the potential of blended learning to bring new tools for language instruction to the classroom.
Buenas Dias, Bonjour, Hello
“The Next Generation of World Language Learning” discusses the opportunities that blended learning creates to improve the numbers of students who can access high-quality world language instruction by describing a vision of the next generation of world language learning.
Navigating the Digital Shift: Implementation Strategies for Blended and Online Learning
A DLN Smart Series ebook comprised of eight white papers and complementary infographics that address key implementation challenges at the intersection of digital learning and Common Core.
Video: Funding the Shift to Digital Learning
Digital Learning Now!’s paper, “Funding the Shift” lays out policy strategies and easy ways to help make the promise of digital learning a reality. Together, the paper and video are an essential resource for today's forward thinking school leaders.
Framing the Learning in the Blended Learning Environment
In a high quality competency based learning model, competencies are designed on conceptual understandings within and between a content areas. These ‘big ideas’ provide the deep, rich, conceptual connections across disciplines that invite strategic and extended thinking.
Navigating the Digital Shift
Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida from 1999-2007 and Chairman of ExcelinEd, says that Navigating the Digital Shift "provides policymakers and education leaders the tools they need to use digital learning as a catalyst for improved student achievement."
Hot Off The ePress: DLN Ebook
Navigating the Digital Shift” offers updated versions of white papers originally released in the DLN Smart Series including contributions from 11 authors representing leading organizations such as Public Impact, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL), CompetencyWorks and The Learning Accelerator. Topics include strategies for blended learning implementation, how technology can improve teaching conditions and careers, the potential of competency-based learning, the opportunities of secure student data to empower personalized learning, and the reality of online learning for students and teachers.
K¹² Focused on Academic Outcomes, Improved Outreach & Enrollment
“We’ve renewed our commitment to academic outcomes,” said Nate Davis, Executive Chairman of K¹² after a tough couple of weeks of criticism. “We have improved the quality of our outreach and enrollment practices, and focused on improved outcomes as measured by traditional state tests.”