Standards for the 21st-Century Learner offer vision for teaching and learning to both guide and beckon our profession as education leaders. They will both shape the library program and serve as a tool for school librarians to use to shape the learning of students in the school.

To serve as a catalyst to position 21st century readiness at the center of US K12 education by building collaborative partnerships among education, business, community and government leaders.

The writer discusses an innovative teacher certification program offered through Voyager Expanded Learning and the University of North Texas that models a new way of teaching and learning with technology at the core. With online curriculum, differentiated instruction, project-based learning, and team learning at its heart, the program aims to improve the quality of instruction by providing a model of learning that was not available when the majority of current classroom teachers received training.

The competition requires youths with endless curiosity who are willing to admit their weaknesses, says the coach at Granada Hills. They have to learn to push themselves and develop the mind-set of a champion.

Students with disabilities are drawn to online courses for many of the same reasons as everyone else, but it's often the anonymity that makes learning online particularly attractive to someone who's spent his or her life trying to mask a disability. For online instructors, this can present new issues.

Every disability can be named, but you may be surprised by your student's abilities.

Flexibility in learning provides a student room for volitional control and an array of strategies and encourages persistence in the face of difficulties. Autonomy in and control over one's learning process can be seen as a condition for self-regulated learning. There are a number of categories and dimensions for flexible learning; following professional publications, time, location, lesson content, pedagogy method, learning style, organization, and course requirements are all elements to consider. Using these categories and the dimensions of flexible learning, we developed and validated a questionnaire for an open and distance learning setting. This article reports on the results from a study investigating the relationship between flexible learning and self-regulated learning strategies. The results show the positive effects of flexible learning and its three factors, time management, teacher contact, and content, on self-regulated learning strategies (cognitive, metacognitive, and resource-based). Groups that have high flexibility in learning indicate that they use more learning strategies than groups with low flexibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Groups that have high flexibility in learning indicate that they use more  learning strategies than groups with low flexibility.

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Featuring a collection of top articles from Distance Education Report, this new Faculty Focus special report provides practical strategies for improving online student retention, engagement and satisfaction. Articles include: * 11 Tips for Improving Retention of Distance Learning Students * Understanding the Impact of Attrition on Your School * Taking a Holistic View of Student Retention * Eight Suggestions to Help You Get Your Retention Act Together Now * Online Mentoring Builds Retention * Nine Truths about Recruitment and Retention * Finding Helpful Patterns in Student Engagement

"Cognitive theory suggests more interaction in learning environments leads to improved learning outcomes and increased student satisfaction… Using a sample of 359 lower-level online, undergraduate business courses, we investigated course enrollments, student and faculty time spent in interaction, and course completion rates… Our key findings indicate that increased levels of interaction, as measured by time spent, actually decrease course completion rates. This result is counter to prevailing curriculum design theory and suggests increased interaction may actually diminish desired program reputation and growth."

Online teaching is increasingly common at many types of higher education institutions, ranging from hybrid courses that offer a combination of in-person and online instruction, to fully online experiences and distance learning. The following resources provide guidelines for creating an online course, best practices for teaching online, and strategies for assessing the quality of online education.

I remember that short, powerful statement shared by a mentor early in my career as a classroom teacher. I could comprehend it then, but I could not understand it as I do now as an online teacher.

Definitions of Information Literacy Information Literacy: a Critical Skill and a Strategic Commitment Plattsburgh State is committed to graduating students who are information-literate. The definitions below clarify the meaning of this critical skill and indicate why it is important for individuals as students, scholars, and citizens.

The Information Fluency Triad The terms for this model have been chosen carefully. It is information, not digital. Many parts of the information fluency model are analog, or comprised of characteristics for which the digital/analog terminology isn't germane. It is fluency, not literacy.

Illustration used under CC license. Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danahlongley/4472897115/ Five presenters discussed the ways in which each implements transliteracy in their libraries. Transliteracy is often defined as the ability to read, write, and interact across a range of platforms, tools, and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio, and film, to digital social networks.

A cooperative enterprise such as SCLS cannot be articulated just through a list of services or with information about the service center itself. The strength of our System lies in the diversity, experiences and knowledge of each of its members as they work together for a common purpose. We believe that local control, coupled with aggressive cooperation, is the best organizational model for the libraries and their System.

Līve-brary.com consists of the 56 public libraries of Suffolk County collaboratively going digital. On Live-brary ebooks, videos, and audiobooks can be downloaded, access to databases and homework help are provided.