tcnixon on June 23rd, 2010

I have often wondered if we do ourselves a disservice by touting online learning’s ease of use. Bruce Friend of SAS Curriculum Pathways offers an article on that very topic over here.

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tcnixon on May 15th, 2010

I just now reserved my room for iNACOL‘s Virtual School Symposium in November. This year it will be in Glendale, Arizona. If you work in online learning, if your school district is considering online learning, if there is the remotest possibility that you need to learn more about online learning, this is the one conference [...]

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tcnixon on May 9th, 2010

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tcnixon on March 28th, 2010

Well, if you had asked me, I could have told you. There is an opinion piece in the Washington Post that asserts that traditional schools are not working and recommends that we move learning online. Here’s the first part: Deep within America’s collective consciousness, there is a little red schoolhouse. Inside, obedient children sit in [...]

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tcnixon on February 24th, 2010

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 [...]

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tcnixon on February 14th, 2010

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. [...]

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tcnixon on January 29th, 2010

You may recall that I mentioned a large website project currently underway. While there is still some branding to be done, the websites are all in place and you can see them below. There is still much work to be done, but, as you can see, there are fifty brand-new websites specifically tied to the [...]

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tcnixon on January 22nd, 2010

If you are looking for videos about online high schools on Youtube, I would like to suggest the Best Online High Schools channel. I have begun to scour that site for videos that would be of interest to you. I would encourage you to subscribe while you are there. If you do that, Youtube and I [...]

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tcnixon on December 30th, 2009

I have been thinking lately what I have planned for 2010 in terms of writing and writing-related activities. Since I have a new day job that takes up a significant amount of time, I find that I need to pick and choose more carefully than I have in the past. That being said, what can [...]

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