Not even a ride on a yellow school bus. A group of enterprising Internet educators have been waiting a year to give Georgia public school students and teachers the state’s first virtual K-12 experience – the chance to work and learn from home in their slippers full-time. Friday, they get an answer. The Georgia...
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Students will soon have access to a new kind of school with web-heavy curriculum, thanks to a charter school recently authorized by Grand Valley State University trustees. The Virginia-based K-12 Inc. will launch a charter school this fall that will require students to do half of their schoolwork over the Internet. The other half...
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Designing Digitally, Inc., a full-service interactive design company and virtual world developer, was recently awarded a long-term contract with the United States Air Force Academy to completely develop, host and maintain a browser based virtual campus tour. This virtual campus allows the academy to reach interested high school students regardless of their geographic location....
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“The iPad may prove to be a useful tool to put in the hands of cyber school students,” said Dr. Nick Trombetta, CEO and founder of the 9,000-student Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School. Dr. Trombetta attended the Apple Education Leadership Summit 2010 in Dallas, Texas, April 21-23. “We attended the summit to begin a conversation...
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Students aren’t getting enough instruction in school on how to use technology and the internet in a safe and responsible manner, a new poll suggests. Released by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and supported by Microsoft Corp., the survey found fewer than one-fourth of U.S. teachers have spent more than six hours on...
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North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS) has announced it has signed an agreement to offer free access to Discovery Education streaming, the company’s digital video-based learning system, to educators and students throughout the state. The school has also chosen the company to provide professional development services for its educators. With partnerships with several companies...
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State education officials and local school districts are working to use technology money from the federal economic-stimulus package to develop initiatives that do everything from consolidate data systems to create high-quality digital content for school laptops. But much of the $650 million in stimulus funding for Enhancing Education Through Technology—the federal government’s main educational...
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The three-and-a-half-year court battle between learning management system (LMS) giant Blackboard Inc. and competitor Desire2Learn ended Dec. 15 when the companies agreed to license each other’s patents and drop long-standing lawsuits. But some observers believe the truce comes too late to stem the growing movement toward open LMS technologies in higher education. The...
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Elluminate, Inc., the leader in web, audio, video and social networking solutions that support 21st century teaching, learning, and collaboration, announced today that its Fire and Ice initiative was awarded iNACOL’s Best and Most Innovative Online Learning Practice award, which was announced at the organization’s annual Virtual School Symposium held November 15-17 in Austin,...
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Students at a Baltimore County high school this fall will explore the area surrounding Mount St. Helens in a vehicle that can morph from an aircraft to a car to a boat to learn about how the environment has changed since the volcano’s 1980 eruption. But they’ll do it all without ever leaving their...
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