Online learning and the need for social opportunities
In a Wall Street Journal article titled “Online High Schools Test Students’ Social Skills,” Paul Glader writes about the challenges online schools and students have […]
In a Wall Street Journal article titled “Online High Schools Test Students’ Social Skills,” Paul Glader writes about the challenges online schools and students have […]
Nov 12, 2009
Areas of nonconsumption are often the most promising places to look for disruptive innovations. What’s hard about looking for these places is that, by their […]
Nov 5, 2009
There has been some buzz in the media (here and here for example) about a new school that opened this year in New York City […]
Oct 30, 2009
This blog picks up from where I left off in my previous blog. Once a viable strategy and solution had emerged for the Florida Virtual […]
Oct 22, 2009
Last week Innosight Institute published its second case study. This one profiled the rise of Florida Virtual School (FLVS), an online public school in Florida […]
Oct 15, 2009
According to an article in eSchool News, online programs are seeing a dramatic spike in teaching applications. Specifically, K12, Inc. and Connections Academy are reporting […]
Sept 24, 2009
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is beginning to announce details of the $650 million Investing in Innovation Fund that Jim Shelton is leading for the […]
Sept 17, 2009
If you have not yet read Cathy Cavanaugh’s white paper titled Getting Students More Learning Time Online: Distance Education in Support of Expanded Learning Time […]
Sept 4, 2009
I am excited to write today about Innosight Institute’s first published case study. You can read the executive summary here and download the full version […]
Aug 28, 2009
Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn opine on how to use the Race to the Top funds to not only reform education, but transform […]
Aug 26, 2009