TIES+-+December+2010+-+Renee's+notes

**International Trends in Online Learning**
· IB Diploma Program Online serving students in 125 countries · Turkey: 15 million students enrolled in online courses · India: Digitized content: $10 Laptop project Goal: universal access to K-12 · China: K-12 digital curriculum · Singapore secondary schools 100% online All teachers know how to teach online · Pisa test results came out today. First year China has participated. China is #1 T= technology platforms P People/Pedagogy/PD: Teachers need new skills to teach online; administrators need new skills to manage online programs; new response to intervention models through blended need student support services: online tutoring; technical support; registration counseling A= Assessment: Online/adaptive; Personalization engines; Performance-based C= Online content: Online courses/ dual enrollment; credit recovery; common core curriculum · 83% of districts offer at least one online course · 40% o US high schools do not offer AP courses 75% of districts use online learning to offer AP or college level courses · Teacher shortages: 40% of p.s. districts in US today say they need online learning resources because certified teachers are not available for traditional face-to-face instruction · 60% of schools and districts say they need online learning for credit recovery · More than 50% need online learning to reduce student scheduling conflicts to graduate on time. · Diverse student needs: urban, suburban, rural) e.g. gifted students; college-readiness; students with physical disabilities or prolonged absences from school because of illness; help at-risk students  · Teachers: increase access to highly qualified teachers through online learning; Providing new professional opportunities to teach online and blended instructions   · Benefits to Student of taking online class:   ü 51%said it allows them to work at their own pace   ü 49% to earn college credit   ü 44% said it allows them to take a class not offered on campus   ü 35% said it was to get extra help   ü 19% said they took online classes to get more access to teachers   · Currently 2, 000, 000 students in US in online courses: blended: 4 million; 2009: 27 of h.s. students took online; 10.5 M students projected to take courses by 2014
 * __TPAC for online and blended learning:__**
 * __Solutions through Online Learning__**

**__Trends in K-12 Education: Next Generation Models of Online and Blended Learning__** **1.** Buffet Model: 4 course face to face 2 online **2.** Emporium model: f2F with blended approaches to learning. **3.** Blended Learning: the convergence of online and face to face00the best of both worlds. Should be approached as not only a temporal construct but rather as a fundamental redesign of the instructional model with these characteristics: **4.** Shift from lecture to student centered instruction where students become interactive learners; increases in interaction between student and instructor; student -student; student and content student and outside resources. **5.** Need digital content/ shift in instructional mode.

· Global outlook at a younger age · Mobile media · Customization and personalization · Ability to scrutinize and provide feedback · Integrity and openness · Project-based; team oriented learning · Clear guidelines goals rules · Involvement in community and volunteer opportunities · Responsiveness and fast feedback · Develop online learning communities; online discussion boards; for discussion and analysis · Experiential learning, field experiences simulations and case method approaches · Strong writing skills · Focus time Problem: we’re spending $$ in this country but on the wrong things—old models e.g. textbooks 1) Alternative energy 2) Desalination of water 3) Precision farming 4) Biometrics 5) Virtual Education **__Futurist Outlook: 2011__**  Computers: Skinput  Energy: Solar Glitter (gold jacket can power the computer on your arm!)  Education:  1. Class time & non-class time interlaced. Self directed learning becomes the most important skill  2. China may be the 1st country to succeed in educating most of its population on the Internet  3. Social networking could facilitate more collaborative learning  4. Next generation of students will be living wherever they want and taking many if not all of their course online. They’ll earn degrees accredited by international accrediting agencies.  **__2010 Horizons Report by Educause__**  1. Mobile computing  2. Open Content (Algebra I and II course already available through Gates Foundation grant). Also see Open High School of Utah  3. Visualization; data analysis  4. Gesture based computing (e.g., WII): Kinesthetic learning __Global Trends in ICT:__ · Mobile · Cloud computing · 1:1 computing · Ubiquitous learning · Gaming as learning tool · Personalized · Redefinition of learning spaces · Teacher generated open content · Teachers as mentors and managers · Students advance upon mastery · Explicit Goals · Assessment is meaningful and positive
 * __Millenial Mindspace:__**
 * __Recommendations__**
 * __World Future Society: 10 breakthroughs transforming life in the next 20-30 years: (my battery power went out so I only got down a few)__**
 * __Moving away from ‘seat time’ toward competency based learning__**
 * CHALLENGE: Be boldly innovative or badly irrelevant!**