Success in online Learning

1. Success in online Learning John canuel, VP of education strategy, blackboard

2. Headlines • Themes in K-12 Education • Financial stress • Innovation • Accountability • Compliance • Reform • Student Achievement & Attendance • Personalized Digital • Content “Urban Students Lag in Science Learning” Teachers face unprecedented challenges to their profession -ASCD “Educators Back Personalized Learning” “MO Law Makers Call for End to Teacher Tenure” “Duncan: Most schools could face 'failing' label” “N.Y. Gov. Must Use Budget Power to Spare Schools from Layoffs”

3. 21st Century Students and 21st Century Challenges

4. Achievement Gaps Still Exist National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

5. Teacher Demographics – Age(In 1987-88) National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future Source: Richard M. Ingersoll. University of Pennsylvania, original analyses for NCTAF of Schools and Staffing Survey.

6. Teacher Demographics – Age (In 2007-08) National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future Source: Richard M. Ingersoll. University of Pennsylvania, original analyses for NCTAF of Schools and Staffing Survey.

7. Teacher Demographics – Experience (In 1987-88) National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future Source: Richard M. Ingersoll. University of Pennsylvania, original analyses for NCTAF of Schools and Staffing Survey.

8. Teacher Demographics – Experience (In 2007-08) National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future Source: Richard M. Ingersoll. University of Pennsylvania, original analyses for NCTAF of Schools and Staffing Survey.

9. Disrupting Class (2008) Customized learning will help more students succeed in school • Student-centric classrooms will increase the demand for new technology • Computers must be disruptively deployed to every student Disruptive innovation can circumvent roadblocks that have prevented other attempts at school reform In 2019, 50% of high school courses will be delivered online

10. S Curve of Innovation and Success New, disruptive innovation Success Current innovation Time

12. Is There an Answer?

13. Project Tomorrow Survey (2009) STUDENT RESPONSES: Benefits of taking a class online? • 63% of students identify online learning as a must-have component in their “ultimate school”

14. Districts are Challenged to Meet Student Demand for Online Learning Total % Agreeing Statement 89% 96% 51% 80% StronglyDisagree SomewhatDisagree SomewhatAgree Strongly Agree Source: Blackboard/Education Week Survey of Online Learning Preparedness (2010). n=1,962

15. Online Learning Research #1 Online Learning is Growing • 30% per year #2 Online Learning is Effective • U.S. Department of Education Report of Online Learning Better than Face-to-Face (USED 2009) #3 Online Learning Improves Teaching • Teachers who teach online reported positive improvements in face-to-face, too. “Of those who reported teaching face-to-face while teaching online or subsequently, three in four reported a positive impact on their face-to-face teaching.”

16. Traditional Educational Technology Models Formative Assessments Live meetings - Admin Digital Textbooks Content Management 1:1 Device Initiatives Credit Recovery Teacher Professional Development Live classroom collaboration Communications Web 2.0 tools Gifted Student Course support Interventions Technology Integration Organizational Core Business and Information Systems Virtual School

17. Core Mission Teaching and Learning Technology Live meetings - Admin Content Management Formative Assessments Digital Textbooks 1:1 Device Initiatives Credit Recovery Teacher Professional Development Live classroom collaboration Communications Web 2.0 tools Virtual School Interventions Technology Integration Gifted Student Course support Core Mission Teaching and Learning Platform Organizational Core Business and Information Systems

18. Blackboard Cost Efficiencies IMPLEMENT: REMOVE: Online PD Substitute Fees and associated T&E Digital Curriculum Guides Printed Curriculum Binders Third Party Plagiarism Resource SafeAssign Protected Community Site Printed/Mailed Letters and Forms to Families Cost and travel time Online Meetings Printed Communications (Newsletter) Electronic Delivery of Information

19. Blackboard Educational Efficiencies IMPLEMENT: REMOVE: District-wide Standards-Aligned Lessons Lesson/Instructional Inconsistency Semester-Long Online Lessons Wasted Student Time with Substitutes and Absences Hold real-time collaboration sessions Unproductive days to due weather closure Targeted, personalized academic support (live tutoring sessions) Students Struggling Without Resources at Home Access to Courses Anywhere, Anytime Restrictions to Learning Based on Access

20. Many Ways to Get Started DISTRICTIMPERATIVE TARGETED USE EXPLORATORY EXPANSION Community and Parental Engagement Collaborative Curriculum Management Effective and AffordableProfessional Development District Benefits District-wide Virtual School Primary Focus Blended Learning

21. Online Professional Development Attributes

22. The Impacts of a PLCs Stoll (2004)

23. Who is the “Typical Online Student? Traditional Public/Private Accelerated Students Credit Recovery Medically Fragile Need to work and/or support family Rural Students Aspiring athletes and performers Special Education and ELL Home Schoolers

25. Blended Learning Models

27. Who Owns the Work? Student Needs Parent – Community Needs Individual School Needs

28. Our Mission To Build a Better Education Experience

29. Our Community BLACKBOARD SERVES MORE THAN 4,500 K-12 INSTITUTIONS