Karen Vitek's List: Online Learning

"The mission of the Flipped Learning Network™ is to provide educators with the knowledge, skills, and resources to successfully implement Flipped Learning. "

"The Institute defines blended learning as a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace; at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home; and the modalities along each student’s learning path within a course or subject are connected to provide an integrated learning experience."

"About Global Classroom

Global Classroom provides the technology, course content, and services for businesses, K12 schools, and government agencies to address the educational needs of the next generation of learners.

The Global Classroom platform is in the cloud and that means that there is no software or hardware to purchase, it works on PC's or Mac's, and the software is updated for free as new features are developed."

The mission of the Northeast Comprehensive Center (NCC) is to develop the capacity of the state education agencies in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont and their networks and agencies to assist districts and schools in improving achievement outcomes for all students. In doing so, we strive to engage with state education leaders in:

"Just in time to bust a myth that reared its ugly head in the closing keynote at the ASU/GSV Summit, Digital Learning Now! today released the “Blended Learning & The Teaching Profession.” The infographic shows how blended learning is not about replacing teachers with technology, but rather empowering them with new opportunities. The infographic previews the next DLN Smart Series paper “Improving Conditions & Careers: How Blended Learning Will Improve the Teaching Profession” that will be released later this month."

"EduStruct is the first educational software program that integrates a secured social media platform directly into the classroom while syncing it with other educational tools. This creates an educational community where administrators, teachers, students and parents can share information in real time. It gives teachers the power to extend their reach outside of the classroom, which will break down traditional barriers, and prepare students for the next level of their education. This user friendly software gives administrators the tools they need to run an efficient and effective school district without putting constraints on their budget. EduStruct is creating a blended virtual educational network which will enable schools all over the world to share digital resources and information, in the process enhancing the quality of education through greater access and communication."

On April 4, 2001, MIT announced it would publish educational materials from all of its courses freely and openly on the Internet. Ten years later, OCW has shared materials from more than 2000 courses with an estimated 100 million individuals worldwide. Join us in celebrating the 10th anniversary of this groundbreaking effort.

2U is an education-techcompany that partners with universities to offer online degree programs.

Udemy helps students make moves. Whether you want to get promoted, break into a new industry, start a company, further a passion, or just accelerate your life, Udemy helps you learn from the amazing instructors in the world, so that you can get there and get there faster.

"Take the world's best courses, online, for free."

"Learn. Think. Do
Invent your future through free interactive college classes.

Discover free online classes from top instructors and industry experts. Take courses at your own pace. See what we have to offer."

"Take Free Courses. Earn College Credit. "

Includes GED and AP courses.

"Over the past year, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation has awarded nearly $20 million to nonprofit organizations advancing "blended learning" technologies, according to a foundation release. Combined with earlier investments, the foundation has granted nearly $23 Million in funds to education technology nonprofits to date."

"4.0 is a design lab for curious people committed to unprecedented innovation in education. "

"A teacher can only teach one lesson at a time. In a classroom filled with students, how can one teacher effectively meet the diverse needs of each student?"

"Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic. "

EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. Based on a long history of collaboration and their shared educational missions, the founders are creating a new online-learning experience with online courses that reflect their disciplinary breadth. Along with offering online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning–both on-campus and worldwide. Anant Agarwal, former Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, serves as the first president of edX. EdX's goals combine the desire to reach out to students of all ages, means, and nations, and to deliver these teachings from a faculty who reflect the diversity of its audience. EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard.

"Turn Your Content Into Apps, Instantly

OpenMinds instantly converts your worksheets (or the content you choose) into engaging quizzes, flashcards, puzzles and games for mobile devices and the web. "

"Connecting students, teachers and institutions, through an open, online course network."

" We all have had many years of experience in learning in face-to-face settings in both classrooms and seminar rooms. Although the face-to-face learning environments are often complex and unpredictable, we are very familiar with them and have developed high levels of skill in working in these environments. We cannot assume, however, that the skills, strategies, and techniques that we so effectively use in face-to-face learning environments will also work well in online learning. David McConnell (2000) has developed the following table that provides an excellent comparison of some of the differences that exist between online and face-to-face learning. Among the important differences that you will note on this table are differences in the nature of time, group dynamics, access to others, openness of system and discussions, and amount of effort required for both types of learning,"