“Digital learning has the potential to leverage technology to transform our educational system by providing students, parents, and educators more flexibility over the time, place, path, and pace of learning. In other words, it individualizes each student’s educational experience and shifts the teacher’s role from being the source of information to being a guide alongside…
Digital Learning Now! Statement on Georgia’s Digital Learning Task Force
WASHINGTON – On April 30, 2012, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed an executive order creating a task force to implement digital learning in Georgia’s K-12 schools. Since November 2012, the Digital Learning Task Force has engaged a wide variety of innovators, experts, and educators to develop a framework for using digital learning efforts to improve…
18 Dec 2013
Digital Learning Scores Big in Ohio
Note: State activity around digital learning continues to move at a rapid pace. One of the more exciting ideas is Ohio’s Straight A Innovation Fund. We’ve asked a voice on the ground in Ohio to dig into the applications and unpack what this might mean for Digital Learning in Ohio. Michael Harlow specializes in legislative and community…
11 Dec 2013
New FCC Chairman Praises Digital Learning in New Speech & E-Book
Policy either restricts or encourages innovation and growth. Now, more than ever, it is crucial to have leadership in government which recognizes the changing nature of our education system and understands that old models of support and regulation are not sufficient for the new normal in schools. This week, in a new e-book and his…
5 Dec 2013
Digital Learning Recap: 2013 National Summit on Education Reform
Mistletoe and George Bailey may make this the most wonderful time of the year, but for Digital Learning Now! and the rest of the Foundation for Excellence in Education team, this has been the season for conferences, travel and exciting organizational developments. Last week, we announced that DLN would be growing, adding staff and developing…
3 Dec 2013
Come Work for Digital Learning Now!
Position: Instructional Design Lead for MOOCs Contact: John Bailey, John@ExcelinEd.org Leaders at the state and local level continue to drive innovation, helping to make the promise of high quality digital learning a reality for students across the country. In 2012, states considered over 700 bills impacting digital learning and enacted over 150. Legislatures are doing…
25 Nov 2013
In Plain English: OK SB 559
Summary SB 559 (Open States or Oklahoma Legislature) establishes alternative methods for high school students to demonstrate mastery of the state academic content standards in subject areas for which alternative tests have been approved and directs the State Board of Education to adopt rules providing for the designation of students as proficient or advanced based…
22 Nov 2013
In Plain English: AR HB 1785
Summary HB 1785 (Open States or Arkansas Legislature) expands access to blended learning and digital learning opportunities for students by creating a pathway to a new requirement that every student be provided with one digital learning course. It eliminates seat time for digital learning courses and sets up an approval process and public list of…
21 Nov 2013