Digital Learning Now has released the 2013 Digital Learning Report Card, which grades K-12 education policy in each of the 50 states against the group's 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning. This year only two states, Utah and Florida, received As, while 14 states received Fs and another 13 received Ds.
Hobsons has launched the Naviance College and Career Readiness Curriculum in an effort to help schools close the "aspiration gap."
Easygenerator has released an online subscription-based version of its e-learning authoring tool, dubbed the Easygenerator Starter Plan.
Both the number of online virtual schools and the number of students enrolled in those schools grew substantially last year, according to a new report out of the University of Colorado Boulder. But the numbers aren't as high as you might expect.
Lawmakers should stop the proliferation of virtual schools until significant quality issues have been addressed. That's just one recommendation from a report released this week that evaluated the growth and performance of full-time virtual schools in the United States.
Massachusetts will get its second virtual school when the TEC Connections Academy Commonwealth Virtual School opens in fall 2014.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/03/14
Netop has added a Web-based assessment tool designed to support personalized learning environments to its Web-based classroom management software, Vision Pro.
Students at Del Valle High School hold a moot court with students in the Czech Republic, a debate with students in Iran and discuss drug trafficking and the legal system with high schoolers in South Australia, thanks to video conferencing technology.
When high school students refused to attend their speech therapy sessions, Sommer Jones, director of special education, set out to find a new option. The solution: online speech therapy.
The University of Houston System is introducing its first three massive open online courses (MOOCs), two of them targeted to high school seniors preparing for advanced placements tests and one for K-12 teachers.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/20/14