Colorado Online Education: Fix the System
An investigative report and a requested legislative audit have shined a negative light on K-12 online education in Colorado. Michael Horn, executive director of education at the Innosight Institute, makes the case that students will benefit far more from updated funding, accountability and teacher policies than from an additional regulatory burden. Colorado can learn from recent changes made in Utah and from the new Nation’s Digital Learning Report Card that promote blended and full-time online learning options.
[http://audio.ivoices.org/mp3/iipodcast510.mp3]
Michael Horn expounds on his interview in an Innosight Institute blog post.
Posted by ben
on Oct 24th, 2011 and filed under Online Education, Podcasts.
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