Tag: Scaling Workgroup

Scaling Quality Topic 5Authorship: What is the teacher role in scaling high-quality courseware? Is s/he developing curriculum and designing the course, or using off-the-shelf courseware and using the efficiency to work one-on-one with students? We recognize that teachers do not have the time or ability to create every piece of high-quality courseware that they need…

Scaling Quality Topic 4Standards and Information: What type of information do students and parents, teachers, and districts need to evaluate quality? What is the best way to get that information: a quality standard, Consumer Reports, word of mouth? Do we need standards at all and how do they evolve in a post-CCSS world? The education…

Scaling Quality Topic 3Choice: Who chooses courseware: districts, teachers, students and parents? How does the selection process affect quality? What would a healthy selection process look like and what impact would it have on courseware development and use? Quality courseware is highly engaging to the learner, embedded in a domain, connected to a learning community.…

Scaling Quality Topic 2 Cost: Is cost a scale barrier – or an indication of value? OER vs. paid … Or does it even matter? With regards to online learning/courses, we believe decisions and discussion must consider quality, scale, and costs in tandem with each other and as a collective. This holds true in both…

Scaling Quality Topic 1 Adoption & Implementation: What are the biggest pain points of adopting new tools? How can we overcome them? What would school look like if testing and implementation were fun? For a quality online program to be scaled it should include the capability to: Integrate into existing data systems Follow a locally…