1. California eLearning Framework
California County Superintendent’s Educational Services Association

2. eLearning Framework Overview
Online Learning
Blended Learning
eLearning Framework Overview (

3. Top 2 Resources

4. Definition: Online Learning
online learning (“virtual” = “online” = “cyber” = “e”):
Teacher-led instruction delivered primarily via
the Internet that includes software to provide a
structured learning environment, and where the
student and teacher are separated geographically.

7. Full-time online schools (students enroll full-time)
Available in 30 states and Washington DC
Estimated 250,000 full-time online students
25% annual increase
California Virtual Academy (CAVA) estimated 10,000 – 19,000 ADA

8. State virtual schools (students may enroll part-time)
536,000 course enrollments in state virtual schools
19% annual increase
FLVS and North Carolina account for much of the total increase

9. Definition: Blended Learning
Blended learning is… a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace And at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home.

10. Blended Learning Blended Learning IS NOT:
Where teacher uses electronic white board with online curriculum to lecture
Where student uses online textbooks instead of hardcopy ones
1:1 laptops/devices in and of themselves

11. Blended learning dimensions

12. Blended learning dimensions

13. Blended learning dimensions

22. Resources: Keeping Pace 2011 Classifying K-12 Blended Learning
Classifying K-12 Blended Learning
California eLearning Framework

23. Questions?

24. Discussion Question 1
What is your district doing now with online and blended learning?

25. Discussion Question 2
What would you like to do, and what limits you from providing it?
(Funding/staffing are not sufficient responses)

26. Discussion Question 3
What policy barriers are in place that block or hinder your efforts to create online and blended opportunities for students?
What policies would you change at the state or district level?