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Innovative Digital Education and Learning A joint program of the NM Public and Higher Education Departments Amy Jaramillo, Curriculum & Instruction Director. District Level Online Learning. NMSTE Conference April 29-30, 2011. www.ideal-nm.org. Presentation Agenda.
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Innovative Digital Education and Learning A joint program of the NM Public and Higher Education Departments Amy Jaramillo, Curriculum & Instruction Director District Level Online Learning NMSTE Conference April 29-30, 2011 www.ideal-nm.org
Presentation Agenda • IDEAL-NM Overview and Accomplishments, Plans • Options for P-12 Schools • Blended Learning Research • Building your own local level online learning programs
YOUReLearning Service Center New Mexico is the first state in the nation to create a statewide eLearning system that from its inception encompasses all aspects of learning from traditional public and higher education to teacher professional development, continuing education and workforce education. Member Entities include: • PK-12 schools • Colleges & Universities • Government Agencies. We help PK-12 schools to: --Expand course offerings --Resolve scheduling conflicts --Provide highly qualified teachers --Increase student technology skills --Meet graduation requirements We reduce geographic and capacity barriers to educational opportunity…
P-12 Accomplishments • Center for Digital Education-Ranked 6th in the nation (2010) • Council for State Governments Innovations Award (2009) • Virtual School Pass Rate: 88% • Dual credit pilot with Dona Ana Community College • Over 3,500 course completions
How are schools using IDEAL-NM? • Las Cruces Public Schools (portal and virtual school) • REC 10 Board uses Blackboard community • REC 9 cross district professional development/training eLearning technology • REC 2 uses portal for elementary (blended learning) • Reserve High School dual credit pilot with Dona Ana Community College • Many schools use IDEAL-NM to fill the “elective gap,” scheduling conflicts, credit recovery, and accelerated learning
P-12 Options • Portal Development • Learning management, community, and content systems. • Full access to IDEAL-NM’s growing catalog of courses. • Full access to a multitude of resources and tools (software, web conferencing, wikis, blogs) • Training and technical support (portal development and course design) • Virtual School • 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
National Education Technology Plan—Goals 1. Learning: Engage and Empower 2. Assessment: Measure What Matters 3. Teaching: Prepare and Connect 4. Infrastructure: Access and Enable 5. Productivity: Redesign and Transform
The Rise of Blended Learning Blended Learning is any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path and/or pace. --Horn, M.B. & Staker, H. (2011). The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning.
Revolutionizing K-12 Education Virtual or online learning is revolutionizing American education. • Potential to dramatically expand educational opportunities of students; • Overcome the geographic and demographic; restrictions; • Improve quality instruction; • Increase productivity and lower costs; • Expand access to highly qualified teachers; As many as 1 million children (roughly 2% of the K-12 student population) are participating in some form of online learning. --Lips, D. (2010). How Online Learning is Revolutionizing K-12 Education and Benefitting Students. NO. 2356.
Small School Opportunity Gap According to a Fall 2007 survey, some small high schools offer fewer than 50 courses whereas large schools can offer more than 200 courses. This “opportunity gap” is due to the geographic isolation and lack of economies of scale in New Mexico’s small schools.
Course Authoring and Management Teaching and Learning Tools Communication and Collaboration Tools Built-in Data Tracking and Assessment Tools Content and File Management Shared Learning Objects Workflow and Versioning What can a portal do for you? Portal Multi-domain branding Distributed administration
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