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Who we serve

Providing Quality eLearning Services to New Mexico Our mission is to reduce geographic and capacity barriers to educational opportunity while increasing the digital literacy skills students and adult learners need to participate in a global economy. Who we serve.

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Who we serve

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  1. Providing Quality eLearning Services to New MexicoOur mission is to reduce geographic and capacity barriers to educational opportunity while increasing the digital literacy skills students and adult learners need to participate in a global economy.

  2. Who we serve • P-12 Schools/Districts and regional education cooperatives • Higher Education Institutions • State Agencies

  3. GoalsMajor strides have been taken to address the following program goals: • Expand education opportunities, close achievement gaps, support college and career goals and prepare students for global competition • Reduce the cost of technology access to P-12 schools, higher education institutions, and state agencies • Reduce the travel and personnel costs of state agency trainings and P-12 teacher professional development via online courses • Increase technology application skills of New Mexico youth and adult learners. • Facilitate more cooperation between P-12 schools, higher education institutions and state agencies playing an integral support role to educators and learners throughout New Mexico.

  4. To accomplish these objectives, IDEAL-NM provides eLearning services for P-20+ learners in the following ways: • IDEAL-NM is NM’s eLearning Service Center • Statewide Virtual School (Cyber Academy) • Statewide Learning Management System (Infrastructure) • Repository of online courses (grades 6-12) and other instructional resources • Web Conferencing System (P-12 and state agencies) • Higher Education Clearinghouse

  5. New Mexico’s eLearning Service Center: IDEAL-NM provides • training, technical assistance and help desk support to P-12 schools and other P-12 entities, higher education institutions, and state government agencies in the deployment and management of their portals. • IDEAL-NM provides the following trainings: • portal administration • course design • online teacher training

  6. Statewide Virtual School/Cyber Academy • Virtual School • >3,500 course completions to date • 89% Pass Rate • Highly qualified teachers • Quality online courses aligned with NM content standards and benchmarks/performance standards and national standards for quality online courses • High quality support services for students, parents and site coordinators/learning coaches • THE SCHOOL: • Enrolls students ($200* per enrollment) • Designates site coordinator/learning coach • Provides space and technology for online students • Supports and monitors students • Transcripts final grade • IDEAL-NM • Provides a highly qualified teacher and course content • Provides support to school site coordinators/learning coaches • Academic watch to ensure student success • Submits final grades to site coordinators • Participation: • 72 districts, 2 BIE, 26 charters, 5 private and 2 JJS

  7. Statewide Learning Management System • IDEAL-NM provides a single, statewide eLearning Management System that is available for use by all colleges, universities, school districts, charter schools and state agencies. Participation: • 12 IHEs • 62 K-12 • 42 State Agencies

  8. Higher Education Spring Snapshot User Base: To Date User Base:

  9. State Agencies

  10. P-12

  11. Repository of online coursesIDEAL-NM has developed 59 quality, online, and standards-based courses for grades 6-12 and other educational resources. The repository is continually expanding by IDEAL-NM and partners contributing to the repository.

  12. Web Conferencing System (P-12 and state agencies) Higher Education Clearinghouse

  13. Higher Education Online Learning Clearinghouse • Collaboration of NM’s colleges and universities that provides: • The ability to search a catalog of online courses • A schedule of online courses • Links to colleges and universities providing these online courses • Information for college students about getting started in eLearning, answers to FAQs, and a list of programs offered online • Updates are made to the clearinghouse by the colleges and universities

  14. Issues IDEAL-NM faces • Insufficient funding to support LMS Contract • Questionable program sustainability • Reliance on temporary funding models • Need for partnerships • Increasing demand P-20

  15. Staffing

  16. Budget FY 08-11

  17. Project Close Out Disposition

  18. Statewide Contract vs. Individual Contracts with Blackboard The following table is a comparison of the statewide contract for the fourth year ($1.6M) with the cost sharing (each of the 11 institutions and IDEAL-NM paying an equal percentage of the contract) vs. the cost for each institution and collectively if the contract were broken up into independent contracts. Statewide vs. Individual

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