What School Boards Should Know About Online Learning
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2. Joint Annual Conference of IASB/IASA/IASBO Presenters: Cindy Hamblin Illinois Virtual School Jeffrey Hunt DuPage Regional Office of Education Philip Lacey Niles Township High School District 219 Kathy Tracey-Olesen Center for the Application of Information Technologies
33. DIGITAL LEARNING COUNCIL 1. Student Eligibility: All students are digital learners. 2. Student Access: All students have access to high quality digital content and online courses. 3. Personalized Learning: All students can customize their education using digital content through an approved provider. 4. Advancement: Students progress based on demonstrated competency. 5. Content: Digital content, instructional materials, and online and blended learning courses are high quality. 6. Instruction: Digital instruction and teachers are high quality. 7. Providers: All students have access to multiple high quality providers. 8. Assessment and Accountability: Student learning is the metric for evaluating the quality of content and instruction. 9. Funding: Funding creates incentives for performance, options and innovation. 10. Delivery: Infrastructure supports digital learning. Each element includes recommended actions for lawmakers and policymakers! http://digitallearningnow.com/
Numbers for Multi-district fulltime schools: Available in 31 states and Washington DC Estimated 250,000 full-time online students 25% annual increase
State Virtual School programs 536,000 course enrollments in state virtual schools. 19% annual increase FLVS and NorthCarolina account for much of the total increase in 2011.
Welcome and thanks for joining me today. Cindy Hamblin Have heard of IVS or IVHS? Background and 2 nd birthday this April of our new program IVS 5-12 side of operation – provides online courses to enhance or supplement course offerings at the local private or public school IVS-PD – NEW ISBE want a system for delivery online pd to IL educator for certificate renewal Regional partners
A little more about the IVS-5-12 program IVS partners with local public and private schools throughout Illinois. As part of the partnership agreement, IVS provides the online course (ILS aligned) with a IL certified teacher facilitating the course. The online course is delivered through the IVS LMS, which is Desire2Learn. The online course is asynchronous for the most part however, the instructor does have access to Elluminate (webconference) if synchronous communication is needed. many of our AP course typically meet once a week with instructor some of the world lang courses (German) IVS LMS is integrated with a custom SIS that * manages the users and their course requests provides local school representative, parent and student with ongoing progress or grade to date AND attendance IN RETURN, the local f2f school grants student credit for the course. We ask for 3 types of contacts at the local school 1. Registar 2. Mentor 3. Technical contact
Passed 2011 Contains 10 elements of Digital Learning Council Funding follows student Funding based on successful completion Parents and students choose provider and class. Mastery trumps seat time 2011-12 -- students can take 2 classes