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Hoover Institution - Education Next - How Do We Transform Our Schools?

www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/18575969.html

categories: disruptive_innovation ed_reform online_education online_learning

“The way to implement an innovation so that it will transform an organization is to implement it disruptively—not by using it to compete against the existing paradigm and serve existing customers, but to let it compete against “non-consumption,” where the alternative is nothing at all.”

submitted by John Hardy on Jun 4 2008 | report problem w/link | 1 save


NACOL Forum -> By 2019, half of high school courses taught online

www.nacol.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=8163&st=0&#entry9610

categories: disruptive_innovation ed_reform online_education online_learning

“Author and Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen and his colleagues are predicting that 50% of high school courses will be taught online by 2019.”

submitted by John Hardy on Jun 4 2008 | report problem w/link | 1 save


Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask

www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

categories: information_literacy internet online_learning research search

This site will help you:
1. Train your eye and your fingers to employ a series of techniques that help you quickly find what you need to know about web pages;
2. Train your mind to think critically, even suspiciously, by asking a series of questions that will help you decide how much a web page is to be trusted.

submitted by Stephen Coker on Nov 5 2007 | report problem w/link | 1 save


Quia Web

www.quia.com/company/company_info.html

categories: online_learning online_teaching

Quia Web is one of the world’s most popular educational technology Web sites. It pioneered the “create-your-own” concept, giving instructors the ability to create customized educational software online, built around their own course materials and made available to students over the Web. In addition, Quia Web offers assessment and analysis tools and classroom management features, like class pages, calendars, and grade books.

submitted by John Hardy on Oct 1 2007 | report problem w/link | 1 save


KC Distance Learning, Inc.: Home

www.kcdistancelearning.com/index.html

categories: online_learning

Non-DLC provider of online courses and other distance learning options for K-12 schools.

submitted by John Hardy on Jul 6 2007 | report problem w/link | 1 save