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Hedy Lowenheim

How Online Learning Is Revolutionizing K-12 Education and Benefiting Students - 0 views

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  • Students appear to be benefiting from online learning programs. While evidence about the effectiveness of K-12 online learning programs is limited, there is reason to believe that students can learn effectively online. In 2009, the U.S. Department of Education published a meta-analysis of evidence-based studies of K-12 and postsecondary online learning programs.[3] The study reported that "students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction."[4] In addition, online learning has the potential to improve productivity and lower the cost of education, reducing the burden on taxpayers
  • Whether students have access to online learning options will largely be determined by policymakers' willingness to reform education funding to facilitate greater parental choice. This factor largely explains why the Florida Virtual School enrolls 154,000 students while the Maryland Virtual School enrolls only 710 students. If policymakers want to open the possibilities of online learning to all students, they must reform school funding mechanisms to allow the money to follow the students to their providers of choice.
  • Federal policymakers should consider using online or virtual learning to improve effectiveness and efficiency of these programs. For example, the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) currently educates approximately 85,000 children of military personnel[22] and is developing plans to create an online virtual high school for the 2010-2011 school year.[23] A virtual school for the children of military personnel would likely expand their educational opportunities and minimize disruptions caused by transferring to new schools when their parents are transferred to new assignments.
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  • Online learning has the potential to revolutionize American education. Today, as many as 1 million children are participating in some form of online learning.
  • Hedy Lowenheim on 30 Jun 13
     
    "How Online Learning Is Revolutionizing K-12 Education and Benefiting Students"
Danielle Melia

Preparing Teachers to Teach Online - 0 views

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shared by Danielle Melia on 29 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Online teaching effectiveness The following behaviors are associated with effective online teaching: n     providing timely and meaningful feedback, n     creating learning activities that engage students, n     keeping students interested and motivated, n     ensuring students interact with each other, and n     encouraging students to be critical and reflective. These behaviors constitute criteria for evaluation of online teaching. For each behavior there needs to be a definition of minimal acceptable performance as well as exemplary performance. To assess online teaching effectiveness, these behaviors need to be evaluated during the delivery of online classes. Most existing teaching evaluation does not assess these kinds of factors.
  • Online teaching
  • Online teaching effectiveness The following behaviors are associated with effective online teaching: n     providing timely and meaningful feedback, n     creating learning activities that engage students, n     keeping students interested and motivated, n     ensuring students interact with each other, and n     encouraging students to be critical and reflective. These behaviors constitute criteria for evaluation of online teaching. For each behavior there needs to be a definition of minimal acceptable performance as well as exemplary performance. To assess online teaching effectiveness, these behaviors need to be evaluated during the delivery of online classes. Most existing teaching evaluation does not assess these kinds of factors.
    • Kristina Lattanzio
      Kristina Lattanzio on 29 Jun 09
       
      Nessary characteristics to create a nurturing classroom environment. Feedback, both timely and meaningful, shows a dedicated instructor.
  • Danielle Melia on 29 Jun 12
     
    Online courses have become very popular in higher education and with the emergence of virtual schools are becoming common at the K-12 level (see Clark, 2001; Vail 2001). While most universities and colleges have established training programs to prepare their faculty to teach online, school systems are just beginning to address this need.  As McKenzie (2001) notes, preparing teachers to teach online needs to involve a lot more than the short workshops typical of inservice training. Hannum (2001) describes an extensive state-wide initiative in Colorado. The Concord Consortium and Illinois Online Network both have successful online teacher training programs. A number of online learning system vendors such as Apex Learning, Blackboard Inc., and eCollege also offer online teacher training programs, although these tend to be tailored to their systems.  
Gary Bedenharn

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  • Gary Bedenharn on 06 Jul 12
     
    The effectiveness of K-12 learning versus face to face learning.
Danielle Melia

Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning: Program Overview: California State Univers... - 0 views

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  • Danielle Melia on 04 Jul 12
     
    University and college faculty, K-12 teachers, corporate and military trainers, educational administrators, curriculum designers, technical support staff, and others who want to learn how to convert teaching or training materials currently delivered face-to-face into a completely online course or program. Educators and trainers who already design, implement, or teach online courses who seek to update their skills and knowledge of evolving best practices in online learning.
Lisa Martin

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  • Lisa Martin on 25 Jun 12
     
    Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning
Jessica M

Enabling Students with Disabilities with Computing Interaction and Empowerment though E... - 0 views

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StudentsWithDisabilities Online Need Benefits

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  • or many centuries, education has been focused on the learning of course content, but the learning styles of the students have been ignored .
  • While most of the academic approaches have been centered on the mastery of course content knowledge, not all learners learn in the same way.
  • As a result, different teaching techniques, strategies, and tools may be needed to help all students acquire, understand, and apply learning gained from the course content.
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  • visual learners were able to benefit from applications in PowerPoint and Flash Multi-Media technology.
  • students with disabilities are finding technology to be more enabling than disabling at times.
  • us, more students with disabilities are enrolling in online courses. O
  • Auditory learners could benefit from online classrooms with auditory lectures, Podcasts for students, as well as live chats
  • Jessica M on 03 Jun 14
     
    - need to teach students use of technology for future - work place - needs of different type of learners - online classes offer varying opportunities (accommodate different learning styles and strategies) - increase in students with disabilities enrolling in online courses - less barriers for students with disabilities
Catherine Strattner

Online learning costs for K-12 schools « California Dreamin' by Rob Darrow - 0 views

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  • Some researchers suggest that teaching online costs less than teaching face-to-face, while others suggest that teaching online costs about the same.
  • Catherine Strattner on 09 Jun 12
     
    Addresses cost differences in f2f and virtual learning.
efleonhardt

Rise in Online Classes Flares Debate About Quality - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “It’s a cheap education, not because it benefits the students,” said Karen Aronowitz, president of the teachers’ union in Miami, where 7,000 high school students were assigned to study online in computer labs this year because there were not enough teachers to comply with state class-size caps. “This is being proposed for even your youngest students,” Ms. Aronowitz said. “Because it’s good for the kids? No. This is all about cheap.”
  • But administrators insisted that their chief motive was to enhance student learning, not save money in a year when the 108,000-student district is braced for cuts of $100 million and hundreds of jobs. “What the online environment does is continue to provide rich offerings and delivery systems to our students with these resource challenges,” said Irving Hamer, the deputy superintendent.
  • Teachers’ unions and others say much of the push for online courses, like vouchers and charter schools, is intended to channel taxpayers’ money into the private sector. “What they want is to substitute technology for teachers,” said Alex Molnar, professor of education policy at Arizona State University. In Idaho, Gov. C. L. Otter and the elected superintendent of public instruction, Tom Luna, both Republicans, promoted giving students laptops and requiring online courses. The State Legislature, pressed by critics who said the online mandate would cost teachers jobs, rejected it, but Mr. Luna said in an interview that he would propose it this summer through the State Board of Education, which supports him. “I have no doubt we’ll get a robust rule through them,” he said. Four online courses is “going to be the starting number.”
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  • Sherri Wood, president of the Idaho Education Association, the teachers’ union, strongly disagreed. She said Mr. Luna’s 2010 re-election campaign had received more than $50,000 in contributions from online education companies like K-12 Inc., a Virginia-based operator of online charter schools that received $12.8 million from Idaho last year. “It’s about getting a piece of the money that goes to public schools,” Ms. Wood said. “The big corporations want to make money off the backs of our children.”
  • Mark Prelewicz on 01 Jun 12
     
    online classes costing teachers their jobs
Danielle Melia

Digital Media and Learning Competition - 0 views

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  • Danielle Melia on 05 Jun 12
     
    Learning can happen anytime, anyplace, at any age. Learning happens in K-12 and college classrooms, adult education and in professional development programs. Learning also happens in an array of other online and in-person environments: in afterschool programs and online tutorials, through mentoring, playing games, interacting with peers in person and in social networks, with smart phone apps, in volunteer workshops, at sports camps, during military training, and in countless other ways and other places.
alexandra m. pickett

Reflections - 0 views

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  • “This is not going to be easy and it is going to take a lot of time and energy, but I want to do this and I know I can!”
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 11 Jun 12
       
      yes, i am so glad, i know you can too!
    • Catherine Strattner
      Catherine Strattner on 16 Jun 12
       
      Thank you!
  • What I do believe is that it will be increasingly important to maintain our own learning. 
  • I am truly surprised to see how many students from other states and countries are part of SLN. 
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jun 12
       
      if you look at the numbers it is really only about 2% that come from outside NYS.
    • Catherine Strattner
      Catherine Strattner on 16 Jun 12
       
      I did recognize that the portion of students wasn't that large, but I am still surprised that it is even 2%. I think I could have communicated myself better by noting the number of countries and states outside of New York which were represented.
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  • I would expect that most students would be located in New York
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jun 12
       
      yes. 98% come from NYS.
  • Especially with younger students, this feeling of uncertainty can lead them to completely shut down.  If students trust in their guide, the teacher, they are much more likely to persevere through the uncertainty and attain resolution.
  • I realize that online teaching includes continuous reflection, assessment, and development of yourself as an online instructor and of the course itself.
  • K-12 online instruction does exist. 
  • Ultimately, I have learned that being learner-centered involves much more than making students do most of the work.  It involves understanding the needs of each of your individual students, both academically and personally.  It involves striving to meet those needs on an individual basis, while promoting self-directed learning.  It involves being empathetic and addressing the specific limitations each student may have and striving to break through those limitations together.  In my mind, that is what true interaction is all about, and it is one of the best ways to engage students in learning more deeply.
    • diane hamilton
      diane hamilton on 19 Jul 12
       
      Catherine, I love the metaphor! Nothing to add - you said it well. Diane
    • Catherine Strattner
      Catherine Strattner on 22 Jul 12
       
      Thanks!
  • What I am realizing is that there really is a significant difference between creating an online course from scratch and converting a face to face course.
  • I want my students to understand that these activities have a true purpose.  I want to remind them of that purpose each time they engage in these activities. 
  • I kept finding myself asking “How can this contribute to higher levels of cognitive presence?  Isn’t that ultimately the point of developing teaching and social presence?” 
JJ Wagner

University of Florida News - Online classes can save schools money, expand learning tim... - 0 views

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  • JJ Wagner on 06 Jun 11
     
    "Based on a 2008 survey of 20 virtual schools in 14 states, UF researchers found that the average yearly cost of online learning per full-time pupil was about $4,300. This compared with a national average cost per pupil of more than $9,100 for a traditional public school in 2006 (the most recent year in which such data was available). Their cost estimates covered course development and teaching, and administrative and technical expenses. "
Teresa Dobler

K12 | Online Public School, Online High School, Online Private School, Homeschooling, a... - 0 views

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    • Teresa Dobler
      Teresa Dobler on 30 May 14
       
      Here are some of the many benefits of the online K-12 program.
  • Individualized learning customized
  • online interactive and offline hands-on learning
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  • powerful, personalized connection with teachers
alexandra m. pickett

I am a high school librarian continuing my education to keep my library updated with tr... - 2 views

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  • introduction post counted (which apparently it didn’t) that now I am behind.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jun 12
       
      Most initial posts are personal opinion/social and so don't generally get high ratings according to the rubric. I like to give you the first couple of posts as low pressure intros so that you can get the hang of the rubric and my feedback.
  • I did that wrong too
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jun 12
       
      my hope is that you will push through your feelings and look to see what insight you can gather that will help you succeed as a student and as an educator.
    • Danielle Melia
      Danielle Melia on 12 Jun 12
       
      I'm trying but just when I feel like I have a grip I realize I did something else wrong!
  • I enjoyed being able to observe the exemplary courses also.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 25 Jun 12
       
      what did you learn from your observations?
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  • The cool thing is that I was able to show him some things that Alex showed me that he didn’t know, I looked like a rock star:)
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 25 Jun 12
       
      that is awesome!
  • I know it hasn’t been utilized much or for a long period
  • research
  • Research is a difficult topic to entice high school student with.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 09 Jul 12
       
      question that assumption
  • I think the digital age is reducing the amount of human interaction and students are losing out on the social aspects of school.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 09 Jul 12
       
      question that assumption
  • online learning in k-12 students
  • part.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 22 Jul 12
       
      self assess!
  • am having a hard time picturing my unenthusiastic, too cool for that, high school students being responsible enough to take an online course.
  • community.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 22 Jul 12
       
      There are guiding questions for these reflections that i don't see in your posts for this module and you need to self assess.
  • August 4, 2012
  • Right now I am very frustrated. I have tried very very hard to listen to all of Alex’s comments throughout the semester and make changes based on her criticisms. My course when reviewed needed a lot of work but she expressed being frustrated that I didn’t take her advice when I am always careful to do that. I am not sure if I misunderstood or maybe it was the way things were worded. She had mentioned changing the names of my module’s during one of the previous assignments but in my course review she said she was frustrated because I didn’t listen about changing names of discussions and forums, when in fact, I changed the names of the modules like we had discussed. We never discussed discussion or forum names. I think these issues are issues that need to be addressed when learning about teaching online. Without having a face to face discussion misconceptions are not always cleared up right away and could cause problems later.
alexandra m. pickett

Promising Practices in Online Learning - iNACOL - 0 views

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  • The most well established K-12 online learning programs are more than ten years old
Tina Bianchi

The Beginner's Guide to Virtual Field Trips - 0 views

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  • Tina Bianchi on 23 Jun 12
     
    Provides a listing of programs and award winning providers of K-12 Virtual Field Trips in the arts, sciences, and history
alexandra m. pickett

A National Primer on K-12 Online Learning, Version 2 - 0 views

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    "A Nation"
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