Month: September 2014

Dr. Joe Cozart is guest blogging today. Joe is the Associate Director of Strategic Planning at Georgia Virtual School. Here he discusses learning analytics. Using Data to Improve the Management and Operations of an Online School Administrators of online and blended schools have access to more data than ever before, but the time and expertise… Read more

If you missed our last MVLRI webinar about Florida Virtual School Research, we have archived the recording and slides. The links are below: Slides If you have any questions, contact us at [email protected]

Teresa King, Instructional Programs Manager, and Jodi Marshall, Executive Vice President, Business and School Solutions, of Florida Virtual School (FLVS) presented FLVS Research in an MVLRI webinar on Sept. 16. Florida Virtual School, the nation’s largest state K-12 virtual school, engages in multiple instructional research partnerships each year. In this presentation, members of the FLVS… Read more

The Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) has opened the call for speakers for the 2015 Conference. The conference runs March 18-20, 2015, and will be held at the Cobo Center in Detroit. MACUL has over 14,000 members and the conference draws on average over 4,500 educators from around the region. The 2015… Read more

It’s hard to believe, but it’s not too soon to start thinking about SITE 2015 conference in Las Vegas, NV, March 2-6, 2015. As co-chairs of the Virtual Schooling Special Interest Group, Kathryn Kennedy (MVLRI) and Leanna Archambault (Past Fellow, MVLRI, and Assistant Professor of Educational Technology in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at… Read more

Today’s post is by one of our Institute Fellows, Dr. Susan Lowes, who is the Director of Research and Evaluation at the Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University. Enjoy her post about Learning to Learn Online. In the early days of online learning at the K-12 level, one of the biggest concerns was… Read more