Thursday 15 October 2015

Essentials for Effective Online Courses in K-12

by Nicole Gorman, Education World

Quality Matters, a nonprofit that aims to improve the quality of online education in both the higher education and K-12 sphere, has produced a guide for K-12 schools to follow when creating and offering online courses. How Can Online Education Reflect High Quality Teaching? “When you walk into a classroom, you have an instinctual feel for the quality of teaching and learning happening there, along with standards and expectations that have developed over decades. How can we do the same for online education? ” asks WeAreTeachers.com. Quality Matter’s rubric aims to help strengthen online courses that might otherwise be ineffective busy work through several recommendations that administrators and educators should familiarize themselves with.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_news/essentials-effective-online-courses-k-12-1397811894

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