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OER and Collaborative Content Development
This report provides educational leaders with a guide describing the benefits of OER, a framework for planning, and strategies for successful collaborative content development. Open Educational Resources (OERs) are tools and techniques used to...
OER State Policy in K-12 Education: Benefits, Strategies, and Recommendations for Open Access, Open Sharing
This report helps policymakers promote collaboration and deeper learning with Open Educational Resources (OER). The authors demonstrate how policymakers are helping teachers to build resources, share educational materials, and personalize...
Blended Learning: A Wise Giver's Guide to Supporting Tech-Assisted Teaching
This guidebook by Laura Vanderkam provides crucial guidance to savvy philanthropists looking to transform schools through blended learning. While still very much in its infancy, blended learning is demonstrating promising results, driving a flurry...
Is K-12 Blended Learning Disruptive?: An Introduction of the Theory of Hybrids
This report, fourth in its series, analyzes blended learning through the lens of disruptive innovation theory. The goal of this paper is to help education leaders anticipate and plan for the likely effects of blended learning in classrooms. The...
Transforming K-12 Rural Education through Blended Learning: Barriers and Promising Practices
This report describes the implementation of blended learning programs in Idaho, and three key takeaways are apparent: Blended learning has a positive impact on teachers.Self-pacing enables students to take ownership and achieve mastery.Teachers...
Mean What You Say: Defining and Integrating Personalized, Blended and Competency Education
This paper provides a scan of the literature to expand the knowledge base for the field of online, blended, and competency-based education. The goal of the paper is to explain the nuances of key terms used across the field of K-12 education related...
Partnering for Success: A 21st Century Model for Teacher Preparation
This report studies the best practices necessary to rethink the skills, methods and pedagogical evolution that teacher education must address. If we are to ensure great teachers are trained, mentored and retained for our students — the programs...
iNACOL's New Learning Models Vision
This brief summarizes iNACOL’s New Learning Models, which personalize learning using competency-based approaches. Supported by blended and online learning modalities, teachers use technology to differentiate instruction and engage students in deeper...
Fast Facts about Online Learning
Explore the latest data concerning online and blended learning, enrollment, access, courses, and key policies indicators. Review online learning statistics, trends, policy issues, and iNACOL strategic priorities. Obtain a snapshot view of state...
RETHINK: Planning and Designing for K-12 Next Generation Learning
This toolkit from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is for K-12 district, charter, and school leaders to use in the very early stages of conceptualizing and designing a...
Lessons Learned in Teacher Mentoring: Supporting Educators in K-12 Online Learning Environments
This report provides a detailed look at how mentoring occurs in various virtual school business models. All 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, have supplemental and/or full-time K-12 online programs, and teacher mentoring structures...