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Expanding Student Horizons

Expanding Student Horizons. The Issues. Broadband capacity doubles every year, increasingly impacting students’ lives We must ensure that rural schools have every opportunity to be competitive With access With quality content With support. Rural Distance Education Survey.

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Expanding Student Horizons

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  1. Expanding Student Horizons

  2. The Issues Broadband capacity doubles every year, increasingly impacting students’ lives We must ensure that rural schools have every opportunity to be competitive • With access • With quality content • With support

  3. Rural Distance Education Survey Policymakers must help increase rural districts’ effective use of distance education This led to Act 1280 of 2013

  4. Act 1280 of 2013The Digital Learning Act

  5. The Digital Learning Act Beginning with the entering ninth grade class of the 2014-2015 school year, each high school student shall be required to take at least one (1) digital learning course for credit to graduate.

  6. APSRC Plan for Digital Learning Based on research from the National Research Center on Rural Education Support APSRC based all of our planning around addressing these issues: • Creation of a comprehensive curriculum • The need to address the small numbers of students in specific coursework • Fiscal restraints

  7. Issues and Outcomes

  8. Final Outcome… eResources Digital Learning Portal

  9. eResources Digital Learning Portal • Hundreds of teacher-led and teacher-facilitated courses • High quality courses from nationally recognized digital providers • Available to any student • 5th through 12th grade courses • Meets and exceeds the requirements of Act 1280

  10. eResources Digital Course Providers Aventa Brigham Young University Edison Learning Florida Virtual School K12 Northwestern University University of Nebraska

  11. How are schools using digital courses? Advanced Placement Courses Enriching local curriculum Remediation Homebound students Homeschooled students Expelled students

  12. eResources Digital Learning Portal www.elearning-resources.net

  13. Questions? Barbara Hunter Cox Director of Teaching and Learning APSRC bhuntercox@apsrc.net Brook Singletary Instructional Technology Specialist APSRC bsingletary@apsrc.net 501-492-4300

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