North Carolina Virtual Public School and Learn and Earn Online National Models for Elearning

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North Carolina Virtual Public
SchoolandLearn and Earn Online National
Models for E-learning
E-Leadership for Innovative NC School Boards
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Top 5 Designs in Challenging Times

• 21st Century Leadership Growth
• 21st Century Learning Engagement
• 21st Century Professionals Rifting or best in
  class
• 21st Century Environment Title I, II, and
  infrastructure
• 21st Century Systems Strategic leadership

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World Future SocietyTop 10 Breakthroughs
Transforming Life over the next 20-30 yearsBest
forecast data ever assembled(2007)

• Alternative energy
• Desalination of water
• Precision farming
• Biometrics
• Quantum computers
• Entertainment on demand
• Global access
• E-Learning
• Nanotechnology
• Smart Robots

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International Examples

• China K-12 Digital Curriculum
• Mexico Teacher Laptops
• European Union IB Diploma Program Online
• Singapore Secondary Schools 100 Online

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But in the United States?

• 70 Graduation Rate in the U.S.
• 50 in urban areas
• 34 of high school graduates require remediation
• U.S. spends 500 billion annually in K-12

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The solution.

• 29 states have state virtual schools (Keeping
  Pace, 2008)
• 44 states have significant state e-policies (KP,
  2008)
• 18 states allow 173 full-time virtual charter
  schools
• 30 of all employers use e-learning 5 years 50
• 1 in 5 undergraduate/graduate student enrolls in
  online
• 1.7 million online course enrollments in K-12
  (2008)
• K-12 Online Learning growing 30 annually
  nationwide
• 50 of all high schools online (2019)

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• Education over the Internet is going to be so
  big it is going to make email usage look like a
  rounding error.
• John Chambers, Cisco CEO

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• So how is North Carolina Virtual Public School
  Doing?
• 43,000 students enrolled since Summer 2007
• 81 course performance average
• 400 increase in credit recovery
• Learn and Earn Online
• 11,300 students since Fall 2007
• 2.7 G.P.A

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• NCVPS composite course trends
• Summer 2007 51
• Fall 2007 62
• Spring 2008 74
• Summer 2008 77
• Fall 2008 81
• Spring 2009 82

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So what did it look like?
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21st Century Blended Classrooms and Web 2.0
And now?
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Are your people engaged?
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Are your interfaces age appropriate?
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Do you have both/and options for 2.0/3.0?
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21st Century Classrooms Virtually Blended
Do you lurk and learn?
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Are you mobile?
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The strategic instructional strategy not the
technology lies in beta development
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Title II dollars?
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Free!
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Free!
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Free!
Updates in a classroom?
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Do we really need the 60 million dollar high
school?
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The Alternative Education Center?
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Best practices for Title I
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Meet the kids where they are!!!
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NCVPS Lab Districts

• Teacher quality and shortages
• -Alamance Burlington and Cumberland County
• Access to AP, Learn and Earn Online, and
  Languages
• Iredell-Statesville, Edgecombe, Pitt, and Gaston
  Counties
• Student engagement
• -Chapel Hill, Onslow, and Durham Counties
• Remediation for on-time graduation
• -Catawba, Montgomery, and Union Counties

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