Professional Learning
Personalized Learning
8 Key Elements to Supporting Online Educators
Managing an online classroom can be a departure from traditional teaching methods and teacher preparation needs to be customized to meet the specific needs of online educators. Here are 8 ways to effectively support online educators.
Leadership
5 Lessons Learned in the Transition to Blended Learning
Five blended learning workshop takeaways and seven resources that support blended implementation and #raisingblendedlearners.
Personalized Learning
New Competency-Based Professional Learning Model for Educators
A new approach to blended, competency-based professional learning aims to give teachers "access to the right materials, to support the right competency development, at the right time, through a shared system for competency-based educator development" across seven skill areas.
EdTech
New at 2015 iNACOL Symposium: Voices Hub, P2P Exchanges & the App
As you begin gearing up for the 2015 iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium on November 8-11, we want to make sure you know about some new and exciting opportunities being offered that you’ll definitely want to add to your “must-do” list. This year’s theme is “Connecting Powerful Innovators” and these new features will help you do just that.
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23 Questions that Cultivate Deeper Learning Mindsets
How can educators model deeper learning mindsets they seek to cultivate in students? Taking the time to reflect on their own learning, modeling growth mindset and lifelong learning, and genuinely involving students in problem solving, to name a few. Ponder these 23 questions in your next professional learning session and model deeper learning in your classroom, school, or organization everyday.
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Transformative Professional Learning: Getting Better is Getting Easier
By: Irvin Scott. Widespread adoption and integration of new, teacher-powered approaches to professional development has real promise to end the practice of siloing teaching innovation and improve teaching everywhere in ways we didn’t dream about before.
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Professional Development: Technology’s Key to Success
By: Lucy Kosturko. Tomorrow’s classroom has arrived, and it’s an exciting place. But, the revolutionary teaching required to meet that goal demands adequate time and training. We must recognize that adequate PD is a necessary condition for the success of innovative educational technologies.
EdTech
Micro-credentials for Personalized, Powerful Professional Learning
A new report from Digital Promise further explores the potential of micro-credentials for educators. Digital Promise released Making Professional Learning Count: Recognizing Educators’ Skills with Micro-credentials -- a report that shares the results of a survey of teachers on their views on professional development and micro-credentials.
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Next-Gen Professional Learning: Online, Personalized and Collaborative
By: Dr. Mark Porterie. Knowledge Delivery Systems uses social learning tools and unique content to personalize learning and encourages teachers to build relationships, share experience and collaborate in ways that just weren’t possible before.
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Connecting to Powerful Innovators: iNACOL Symposium 2015
Register today for the education industry’s leading K-12 online, blended and competency-based event -- The iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium, November 8-11 in Orlando, Florida.