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revolution learning

iNACOL 2009: A Great Time to be Learning Online. revolution learning. Tom Vander Ark VANDER ARK/RATCLIFF.  Open it. Go ahead, it won’t bite. Well…maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It’s pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in.

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  1. iNACOL 2009: A Great Time to be Learning Online revolutionlearning Tom Vander Ark VANDER ARK/RATCLIFF

  2.  Open it. Go ahead, it won’t bite. Well…maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It’s pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it’s hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you’ll never reach bottom. It’s not like it’s the end of the world- just the world as you think you know it. The First Book • Rita Dove

  3. My online learning journey Superintendent • Internet Academy (1995) • Anytime Anywhere Learning: 1:1 secondary schools (1995) Vander Ark/Ratcliff (EdReformer.com) • Public affairs for edu-innovators & entrepreneurs • Clients: EIA, EEP, Parent Revolution, CISGA, GCSA, AIE revolutionlearning 2 early stage funds focused on innovative tools & formats Portfolio: Gazillion, AdvancePath, City Prep, Edmodo

  4. Online Learning 2.0: Overview 1. Online Traction 2. Leveraging the Feds • Changing Conditions • Leading the Big Shift • Blended World • Policy • Race to the Top • Invest in Innovation • Online Opportunities

  5. Online Traction: Changing Conditions New Conditions New Investors • More broadband • Cheap access devices • Powerful app platforms • Adaptive content • Stimulus • Publishers • Private equity & VC • India, China, Middle East

  6. Online Traction: Leading The big shift Online Learning 2.0: Personalized learning in global communities Batch Print Personal Digital Age cohorts Textbooks Sequential Annual tests Institutions Individual students Digital content Adaptive Instant feedback Networks An opportunity to boost learning, staffing & facilities productivity

  7. Online Traction: The Emerging Blended World Blended Defined Traditional to Blended Virtual to Blended • Shift in delivery • Seeking productivity: staff, facility, & learning • More online offerings • More 1:1 schools • More use of online content • Virtual operators opening Brick-n-click • Social learning platforms Blended Charters • New models • Turnaround & restarts Credit Recovery to Alt Schools • Competency-based • High support

  8. Online Traction: Policy We are within reach of ensuring that every US student has access to quality education • 25 states allow virtual charters • 45 states with state schools/resources/programs • iNACOL advocacy gaining traction • Promising Practices

  9. Online Traction: New levers Common Standards & Assessments Stimulus/ARRA Adaptive Content Learning Games Learning Networks Consumer Learning Blended Learning Charter Networks/EMO

  10. Leveraging the Feds: Race to the Top ED Leadership • Most aggressive ever Standards Race to the Top • Common Core should benefit virtual providers • Extraordinary opportunity • Not much about online • Competency focus • Turnaround/restart potential Invest in Innovation (i3) • Amazing leadership • Jim Shelton & Shivam Shah EdTech • Karen Cator • EdTech Grants

  11. Leveraging the Fed: i3 (draft guidelines) Categories Must • Development: up to $5m • Validation: up to $30M • Scaling: up to $50m • Focus on high need kids • Focus on teachers, data, turnarounds, college prep • Have 20% match Eligible Applicants Bonus • Districts and Non-profits • Strong track record • Big grants need evidence • Rural, college access, special needs, early learning Selection Key Language • Design, research, experience, scalability, sustainability, management, evaluation • “Exceptionally unique and not widely adopted”

  12. Leveraging the Feds: i3 Opportunities LEA Applicants Platforms • Blended transitions • Social learning consortium • Online learning 2.0 • Blended restart CMO • Adaptive Content: • OER (& proprietary) • Recommendation engine • Level, mode, motivation, interest, popularity Nonprofit Applicants • Blended alt school (CIS PLC) • “School of One” pilots

  13. Leveraging the Feds: Platform Plays Open & proprietary library organized by level, subject, theme, modality with developer tools & incentives Smart search engine considers level, interest, mode, motivation, popularity Recommendation Engine Supplemental tutoring services Professional development Common Core Standards & assmt Implementation assistance School/district improvement New school development Social learning network Service economy of regional and specialty support vendors Widget rich social learning platform supports content & service economies.

  14. ...each of us has known mutations in the mind When the world jumped and what had been a plan Dissolved and rivers gushed from what had seemed a pool. For every static world that you or I impose Upon the real one must crack at times and new Patterns from new disorders open like a rose Mutations, Louis MacNeice

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