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...what is ‘design’ actually? Is it a logo? A Wordpress theme? An innovative UI? It’s so much more than that. It’s a state of mind. It’s an approach to a problem. It’s how you’re going to kick your competitor’s ass. This handy guide will help you understand design and provide resources to help you find awesome design talent.
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Idaho Digital Learning is a state-sponsored, accredited, online school created to provide students with greater access to a wide variety of courses taught by highly qualified faculty. Our goal is to provide choice, accessibility, flexibility, quality, and equity in curricular offerings for students in Idaho. Our mission is to serve the students, school districts, and the State of Idaho by providing a high quality public school education, aligned with state achievement standards, utilizing innovative e-learning methods of delivery. Delete the scoop?
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“European Union funding to add impetus to the Virtual School is imminent, not in Africa but in the UK, where top teachers and schools are combining resources to leverage their own knowledge both for mutual benefit and to make the highest possible quality materials available to people who have no other hope of access to good quality learning.” Delete the scoop?
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25 websites featuring awesome virtual learning experiences. Just because you’re online doesn’t mean that you can’t experience the world first-hand — or as close to first-hand as possible. Here are websites that feature virtual learning experiences, exposing online visitors to everything from history to geography, astronomy to ana Delete the scoop?
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Check out these really impressive virtual high schools, including tuition-free and even 3D virtual world schools. Delete the scoop?
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This item showed up in my inbox yesterday. Thursday Churn: Online roadmap Education News Colorado … by the institute and the Donnell-Kay Foundation and featuring Susan Patrick, CEO of the Int... Be sure to read Michael Barbour's commentary on this report! Delete the scoop?
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Yesterday I began the week with an entry on the rhetorical question of Why Do Cyber Charter Proponents Lie? (although one person did feel the need to answer). Later in the day, these two items ... Provocative and interesting commentary from Professor Michael Barbour Delete the scoop?
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Clark, T. (2001). Virtual schools: Trends and issues – A study of virtual schools in the United States. San Francisco, CA: Western Regional Educational Laboratories. Retrieved from http://www.wested.org/online_pubs/virtualschools.pdf Delete the scoop?
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As the nation's oldest and largest state virtual educator, the Florida Virtual School is often held up as a model for similar state-backed endeavors to follow when crafting a funding system and putting e-school accountability measures in place. Delete the scoop?
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Starting with the AOA blogs, which include AOA Today Blog, AOA Announcements Blog, School Newsletter Blog, AOA Update Blog, and Trends and Tips Blog. How Social Interaction Enriches Learning Studen... Delete the scoop?
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Online K-12 Education in Iowa? Students take classes over the Internet from teachers employed by the corporate partner, not by the physical schools. Representatives from K12Inc. say this new-wave educational approach is perfectly tailored for students who are either home-schooled, like Theo had been, or struggling in traditional schools. Critics say the schools are not only illegal but also a way that for-profit companies can siphon off millions in tax dollars while delivering dubious results. Delete the scoop?
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Expanded learning time schools, after-school and summer programs offer the ideal time, places and conditions to equalize and advance technology-enabled learning. Community organizations such as Y’s and Boys and Girls Clubs typically operate these programs or partner with these schools, which overwhelmingly serve students with great academic and economic needs. Delete the scoop?
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This piece follows two teenagers in PA -- Courtney Dunn and Nate Kusich. Dunn is a student at PA Cyber School, and Kusich is a former student at another cyber school. Their experiences as cyber students were drastically different. This is a companion piece to a look at cyber charters that aired on PBS NewsHour in February of 2012; it was produced by John Tulenko of the Learning Matters group. Delete the scoop?
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has granted more than $1.8 million to the Indiana University School of Education to expand the immersive le... Via Naomi O. Delete the scoop?
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You probably never thought you could attend a virtual lecture, discussion, exam, or lab in 3D. In fact, this is already possible. Virtual worlds have clear advantages over traditional classroom settings. Delete the scoop?
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e-Learning for Kids is a global nonprofit foundation dedicated to free and fun online learning for kids of all ages. Via Gust MEES Delete the scoop?
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By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist A while back, I asked what the future of higher education might look like with the advent of distance learning. Delete the scoop?
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This is the question that was posed to me when I was invited to write this article for eLearn magazine. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, michel verstrepen Delete the scoop?
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Update: This afternoon the House Education Committee passed the online learning bill with the mandate removed. Now, the bill urges school systems to maximize digital learning rather than mandating that students take at least one online course to graduate. Delete the scoop?
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Watson, J. F., Winograd, K., & Kalmon, S. (2004). Keeping pace with K-12 online learning: A snapshot of state-level policy and practice. Naperville, IL: North Regional Central Educational Laboratory. Retrieved from http://www.kpk12.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/KeepingPace_2004.pdf Delete the scoop?
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"In this special webinar, brought to you by K12 Inc., Kim McClelland, Assistant Superintendent of Falcon School District 49 in Colorado Springs, will discuss how her district leveraged lessons learned from the implementation of a full-time, online virtual school to address a much broader spectrum of student needs. Opening the district’s Falcon Virtual Academy in 2010 helped tackle the challenges of a crowded district and improve student performance.
"Based on the success of that experience, McClelland and her team took online learning to the next level. Now, as Innovation Leader for the district’s iConnect Innovation Zone, McClelland and her team have developed nine additional part-time and blended learning schools and programs, meeting more individualized learning needs of more students. Next up for the district is the addition of online credit recovery, RTI interventions, gifted-and-talented enhancement, and foreign-language programs." Via Jim Lerman Delete the scoop?
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As districts move in this direction, they are taking a harder look at how they will evaluate their local models of virtual education. Delete the scoop?
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In innovation-friendly pockets across the country, the number of hybrid charter schools—those that blend online and face-to-face instruction—has been growing over the past five years. But now, the educational model seems to have shifted into overdrive.
Major philanthropies—most notably, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—have launched funding initiatives directed specifically at hybrid school models, which because of their unorthodox ways of allocating resources often are able to operate best as charter schools. Via Jim Lerman Delete the scoop?
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Two Iowa school districts will face heavy scrutiny next school year as they begin offering virtual academies to state students, said Jason Glass, Iowa Department of Education director.Connections Academy, based in Baltimore, and K12 Inc., of... Delete the scoop?
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