Rob Darrow CUE/ADEC Summit March

 Today from 4:30-6:00  Snowcreek Boardroom  And Join the Ning: elsighome.ning.com/elsighome.ning.com/ ¡Viva el Sig!

 Clovis, CA – Central California  20 year old daughter – in college  California Educator, 32 years (Grades K-8)  Teacher-Librarian/Coordinator, 10 years  Project Director, Teaching American History Grant, Partnership with CSU Fresno, 6 years  Doctoral Candidate, CSUFresno, May  Research: At-Risk high school students, online learning and charter schools.  Principal, Clovis Online School (a charter school in Clovis Unified), 1 year

 Online Learning has increased at every level in every way – K-12, community college, four-year colleges, public, private, adult education in the past 10 years.  Number of schools  Number of courses  Number of students

 Growing almost 10% a year  Most growth at 2-year institutions (Parsad, NCES)  66% of all colleges offered online courses in the school year  Over 3.9 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2007  20% of all U.S. higher education students were taking at least one online course in the fall of (Allen, 2008) Allen, I. E., & Seaman, J. (2008). Staying the course: Online education in the Parsad, B., & Lewis, L. (2008). ED. Distance education at degree-granting postsecondary institutions: 2006–07.

 1,030,000 K-12 students in  Represents a 47% increase since  63% of the public school districts in the United States had at least one student enrolled in either a fully online or blended course (Picciano & Seaman, 2008) A sample of K-12 OL growth across the U.S…. Picciano, A., & Seaman, J. (2008). K–12 online learning: A 2008 follow-up of the survey of U.S. school district administrators. Wellesely, MA: Sloan Consortium, Olin and Babson Colleges.

State/organization Full-time or supplemental enrollment enrollment Annual increase Florida Virtual SchoolSupplemental120,000154,12525% Idaho Digital Learning Academy Supplemental6,6199,64646% Alabama ACCESSSupplemental18,95528,01448% Michigan Virtual SchoolSupplemental11,00016,00045% Minnesota (state)Both23,72228,33219% Colorado (state)Full-time9,23811,64126% Ohio (state)Full-time24,01127,03713% Arizona (state)Both15,00023,00024% Connections Academy (across U.S.) Full-time charter 13,00020,00054% K12, Inc. (across U.S.) Full-time charter 39,50056,00042% Watson et al, Keeping Pace.

40% Increase 101% Increase 85% Increase CBEDS Data from Online Charter Schools.

The online learning movement is bottom up  Which means the people in this room and others like you are the ones who will move the vision forward If we are truly going to collaborate, then it is our responsibility to implement what we learn today.

 Money  Position  Power  Ownership / Copyright

 More bang for the buck when more people use the same resource  More people educated in the use of online resources  More college graduates when institutions have a more collaborative and articulating learning system  Online resources not bound by space or time  A more educated educator work force regarding the use of online resources

 Need vertical collaborations vs. horizontal collaborations  All students belong to all of us  Online learning is the place this can happen because time and space is limitless

 Educating and advocating  Online teacher professional development/training  Online skills for students so they complete online courses  Course management systems / technology back end use (e.g. use of Moodle, etc.)  Common way to count and report online students  Common standards for course development  Online learning friendly legislation  UC/CSU online learning friendly policies and articulation

 Ongoing communication  Place to meet and talk and dream  Technologies are nice, but it is people to people interaction that cause transformations to occur in teaching and learning

 Today from 4:30-6:00  Snowcreek Boardroom  And Join the Ning: elsighome.ning.com/elsighome.ning.com/ ¡Viva el Sig!