digital learning
Leadership
Seven Trends Impacting Edu-Jobs
Seven Trends. As we explore in a new free e-book Navigating the Digital Shift, a confluence of forces has created the best opportunity we've ever had to dramatically boost achievement and completion rates.
Ed Policy
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.
EdTech
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."
Personalized Learning
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.
Personalized Learning
Blended Learning Guide: Bigger, Better Version 2.0
These updates, coupled with the feedback we collected from schools and districts using the guide, necessitated the release of version 2.0. Because we wanted to make the guide the go-to source for any leader looking to implement blended learning, we expanded our cadre of contributing authors to nine - bringing together the expertise and experience of staff from Digital Learning Now!, The Learning Accelerator, and Getting Smart.
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New Assessments for New Skills
Without measurement the teaching of collaboration is extremely difficult. The current challenge is how to develop Collaborative Assessment tasks, particularly formative assessments that align with local curriculum, contexts and needs.
Personalized Learning
Meet Generation Z, Revisited
Using Adam's original post, we created a Haiku Deck to compliment his astute insights and descriptions of the students we work to help change the education world for everyday.
Personalized Learning
The Laptop Used Around the World
My challenge for you is to find a child somewhere who has slipped into the crevices of the digital divide and make a difference by putting a working device in that child’s hands. If you don’t know someone who can deliver your device personally, as I did, ask around at your child’s school, at your church, or at organizations you can trust. Surely, someone you know will know someone who knows someone who is making a journey somewhere children are in need.
Personalized Learning
Distributed Workforce: Better Conditions, Costs, & Outcomes
Organizations that effectively manage a remote workforce are clear about their goals, focus on outcomes more than activities, provide extensive training, make a variety of collaboration tools available, and, finally, they plan the work and work the plan.
Personalized Learning
Key Definitions for Blended Learning
Terms such as “online learning,” “blended learning,” “personalized learning,” “customized learning,” and “competency-based learning” are flooding our educational dialogue, and they are often used interchangeably. The ideas are related, but they are not the same. It’s important to understand the differences.