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Dawn Nordine

Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning - 0 views

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online blended learning keeping pace

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  • stevesanders on 10 Nov 11
     
    K-12 online and blended learning have evolved in new directions in the past year. While nowfamiliar segments of the field, such as online charter schools and state virtual schools, have continued to grow, relatively new forms such as consortium programs and single-district programs are expanding even more rapidly, as is the range of private providers competing to work with districts. As of late 2011, online and blended learning opportunities exist for at least some students in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, but no state has a full suite of full-time and supplemental options for students at all grade level.  See page 164 for WI.
  • Dawn Nordine on 15 Nov 11
     
    This is an annual report on policy and practice across the nation...state by state. Empahsis on quality of online and blended learning this year. You'll find this to be very informative and factual. Note the "Planning for Quality" section pages 50-62...well done.
Kurt Kiefer

Supporting The Three New Pillars of 21st Century Learning | Learning the Now - 0 views

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blended learning flipped classroom personalized_learning

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  • Kurt Kiefer on 15 Apr 12
     
    Good practical exemplar of blended learning
Kurt Kiefer

Khan Academy Blends Its YouTube Approach With Classrooms - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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khan academy approach

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  • computers cannot replace teachers. But the computer, she recognizes, can do some things a teacher cannot. It can offer personal feedback to a whole room of students as they work. And it can give the teacher additional class time to do more creative and customized teaching. “Combining Khan with that kind of teaching will produce the best kind of math,” she argued. “Teachers are more effective because they have a window into the student’s mind.”
Kurt Kiefer

Some top colleges offer free online classes; what does that mean for UW? - 0 views

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colleges offer free online classes personalized learning

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      Kurt Kiefer on 07 Jun 12
       
      The Google Apps for Education WI state liaison just left Google for Coursera.  She LEFT Google for Coursera.
  • announcing a similar initiative in April called Coursera.
  • but students who complete the classes don't earn university credit toward a degree. Instead they receive a certificate of completion, sometimes referred to as a badge.
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  • if credits were to someday be awarded for these courses — or if significant numbers of employers were to start accepting these badges as a means into the workforce — higher education could be quickly and significantly altered
  • the tipping point has arrived where the university must seriously examine its current enterprise and rethink what kind of educational experience it wants to offer in the decades to come
  • We really need to start thinking differently about what we do and how we support that
  • until recently there was little pressure — either from outside the institution or from within — to significantly change
  • "flipping" the classroom, a technique in which students generally amass information outside of class by taking in recorded lectures or reading. And when students are in class, they work with professors, teaching assistants and peers on solving problems or other forms of homework.
  • "Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately necessary.
  • The plan now is to accelerate this process by moving 75 percent of engineering's core courses to a blended learning model over the next five years
  • "It's not for everything," Moses says of making use of online tools. "But it's for an awful lot."
  • instruction combining both online and face-to-face elements was even more successful.
  • I'm a coach in the midst as opposed to the sage on the stage."
    • Kurt Kiefer
      Kurt Kiefer on 07 Jun 12
       
      What is making our situation desperate in K-12?
  • implemented by Stanford last year to host free online classes for more than 350,000 enrollees from nearly every corner of the globe
  • The courses feature online lectures broken down into concepts and delivered in 10- to 15-minute snippets. Those who sign up can take frequent, interactive quizzes to help increase retention of material and track progress. Exercises are graded automatically to give instant feedback. And although there is no one-on-one interaction with professors, students can connect with others in the class by posting questions and comments online, and having others vote on how helpful the comments are.
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