For his first year as principal of a fourth- and fifth-grade campus, Todd Nesloney hired a completely new staff and adopted an entirely project-based learning approach.
The state of Pennsylvania is making a foray into a new program that will allow schools to offer "flexible instructional days," in which students won't have to attend school in person in order for the work to count towards instructional days.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/22/14
A partnership between Pearson VUE and Micrsoft will allow those who do not want to travel to a testing center to take certification exams from their homes or offices.
Ed tech company Sibling Group Holdings will make all of its Blended Schools Network professional development courses available via Udemy.
A new report examines barriers to the implementation of blended learning and solutions districts have found to work around them.
The University of California Office of the President has granted A-G approval for 34 of Edgenuity's online courses.
Michael F. Ruffini, a professor of educational technology at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, provides an explanation of the flipped classroom and its alternative, which offers the best of the flipped class and traditional face-to-face instruction, the face/flip.
- By Michael F. Ruffini
- 09/03/14
A start-up company with an online application that allows people to create and publish interactive courses recently held a "Code for Education" night in its home town of San Francisco.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/02/14
Pluralsight, a company that provides online training for professionals in technology and creatie fields, has added a new coding course to its kids' library, Teaching Kids: Basic HTML Part 1.
Instructure has launched a series of MOOCs that use Minecraft to help K-12 teachers implement gamification in the classroom.