Are we headed toward a time when all textbooks will be digital? Absolutely. Will this happen soon? Define “soon.” Several universities have been test-driving the Amazon Kindle this year to see how well it works for their students. Some thoughts from a USAToday.com article: Now, as several major universities finish analyzing data from pilot programs [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an opinion piece about the myths that are still around about distance/online learning. It is perplexing to those of us who work in the field that we can still be having these sorts of conversations. The first distance education courses were offered, what, 150 years ago? Granted, they were [...]
Two questions: How do I know that this is a school with quality instruction and quality administration? How do we replicate this for our online students? Ocoee Middle School Gotta Keep Reading from Michael Cardwell on Vimeo.
I had an interesting exchange with an online high school teacher who shall remain nameless. He works full-time in a school district that has a policy against “friending” current students on social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), but also works part-time for an online high school that has no such policy. He asked my opinion [...]
Simply Brilliant Solutions created the Best Online High Schools website and set it up with search engine optimization. They are a major reason for why the site gets the amount of traffic it gets. I was recently contacted by them to see if they could use my experience as a case study for their efforts. [...]
Bill Gates spent all of 2009 as the full-time co-chair of the Gates Foundation. One of the things that he now does is an annual letter. It is always interesting to read/hear his unique take on the economy, the world, and the foundation’s projects. Something that caught my eye is an on-going project for online courses. [...]
I do get that if you look for online high schools on the Internet that it is entirely possible that you will eventually work yourself to me. I do have that online high schools site that so many seem to come to as well as other sites. That being said, this site even took me aback. [...]
