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VSS NACOL
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Welcome
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International Perspective on Online Learning

• China 1.3 billion people
• 20 million 18 year olds
• 2.5 million college slots
• With online learning increase educational
  opportunities to 100 million new students
• India
• Universal Access for K-12 Education in 10 years
• Need 200,000 more schools
• Shortage of good teachers
• Leverage teachers using technology to bring to
  scale
• Educomp Program digitizing learning resources
  (online content) in K-12 education
• View as export opportunity
• Turkey 10 million students in K-12 taking online
  courses
• Middle East
• Start from scratch and rebuild K-12 Education
  systems

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

• Alternative energy
• Desalination of water
• Precision farming
• Biometrics
• Quantum computers
• Entertainment on demand
• Global access
• Virtual education or distance learning
• Nanotechnology
• Smart Robots

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High Speed Coming Soon WiMax 3G/4G

• Internet access
• China 4 million Internet connections in 1999
• China 137 million Internet connections in 2006
• WiMax 50 km radius of high-speed, wireless,
  broadband Internet (100 Mbs), mid-to-end 2009
• 3G/4G Wireless 2010

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• Using the Internet to deliver courses seems to
  contain great disruptive potential. It could
  allow a radical transformation to happen in an
  incremental, rational way.
• - Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School

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Exploring the Gaps in K-12 Education National
Overview

• Spending on K-12 education
• Average 9,969/per pupil in 2007-08 (more than
  any country in the world, except Switzerland)
• International Rankings in Science and Math (PISA
  2006)
• Science US ranked 25 out of 30 countries
• Math US ranked 21 out of 30 countries
• U.S. Math curriculum full 2 grade levels behind
  international counterparts by 8th grade

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K-12 Education Graduation Rates

• High School Graduation Rates
• Average 70 in 4 years
• Latino/Hispanic students 58
• African-american students 55
• 15 of high schools produce 50 of drop outs in
  country

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K-12 Education College-Readiness Remediation

• High school graduates accepted into college
• 43 of community college students require
  remediation
• 29 of public four-year college students required
  remediation
• Cost of 2.7 billion/annually
• American businesses spend 60B annually on
  education and re-education of workforce

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Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM)

• U.S. shortage of students prepared for STEM
• 77 million engineers in the United States ready
  to retire
• We are going to rely on every child out there to
  fill the gaps.

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A History of U.S. Competitiveness
Internationally

• In 1960s, the United States was 1
  internationally in the adult population with a
  high school diploma
• 86 of adults had a HS diploma
• In 2008, the US is 10th internationally
• 87 of adults in the US have a HS diploma
• Compare Korea
• In 1950s, 35 of adults in Korea held HS Diploma
• Today, Korea has 97 of adults with HS Diploma
• In summary, other countries are moving faster.

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Does every child in the U.S. have access to a
world-class education today?
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K-12 Online Learning National Overview

• The K-12 online learning market is growing
  rapidly at 30 annually
• In 2007, estimated 1,000,000 enrollments in K-12
  online learning in the U.S.
• In K-12
• 30 states with statewide virtual schools 44
  states with significant policies/programs
  (Watson, Keeping Pace, 2008)
• More than 50 of all school districts across the
  United States offer online and distance learning
  (Americas Digital Schools Report)
• 18 states with 100,000 students enrolled in
  full-time virtual school programs (Center for
  Education Reform)

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Blended Learning Best of Both Worlds

• Blended learning should be approached as not
  only a temporal construct, but rather as a
  fundamental redesign of the instructional model
  with the following characteristics
• -A shift from lecture- to student-centered
  instruction where students become interactive
  learners (this shift should apply to entire
  course, including face-to-face sessions)
• -Increases in interaction between
  student-instructor, student-student,
  student-content, and student-outside resources
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• -Integrated formative and summative assessment
  mechanisms for student and instructor. -
  Educause, Blended Learning (2004)

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Blended/Hybrid Learning

• Combining face-to-face with fully online
  components optimizes both environments in ways
  impossible in other formats -Educause Research
  Bulletin, 2004
• Digital content, curriculum, LMS, online
  assessments, data system, AI, simulations
• Shift in instructional model and training

Self-direction, high engagement, (Less direct
student support needed)
Struggling student, low-engagement, (More direct
student support needed)
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Bridging the Gaps through Online Learning

• E-learning strategy for addressing school reform
• Teacher quality and shortages
• Access to a high quality, rigorous curriculum for
  every student
• Science, Technology, Math and Engineering (STEM)
• Foreign languages (Chinese, Arabic, Spanish,
  Latin, etc.)
• AP and advanced courses
• Student engagement
• Engaging, multi-media, emphasis on writing and
  interaction
• Remediation for on-time graduation
• Core courses
• Online credit recovery and remediation
• Cost-effectiveness
• Every state model is different and may include
• Supplemental programs - State or district virtual
  school programs help meet the need for more
  middle grades and high school academic courses
• Full-time K-12 virtual schools - cyber charter
  schools help meet choice options for parents in
  18 states
• Both or all of the above

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