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Keynote Address: “A Great Time to Be Learning Online”
Monday, November 16, 2009, 8:30 a.m.

Tom Vander Ark is a partner in Vander Ark/Ratcliff, an education public affairs firm, and a partner in a private equity fund focused on innovative learning tools and formats. He was the first business executive to serve as a public school superintendent and was the first Executive Director for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. See his daily blog at www.EdReformer.com. Contact him at Tom@VARpartners.net.

Revolution Learning http://revlearning.com/about-us.php

Super Low Cost blended model can help close the global learning gap

What is new? Innovation and challenge often take a long toime to develop

New Conditions:

Change is accelerating because of cost and access to broadband and access to platforms  adaptive content

Second generation content is easier to create

New investors; Stimulus, Publishers., Private equity and India, China and Middle East

There are 20X more venture funds will look at education (more than in the past)

Exciting time to be in the space of online learning

Leading the Big Shift: Creatin the future of learning

Learning 2.0: Personalized Learning in global communities

These can change learning in not only for kids but for teaching as well

The emerging blended World:

Blended Defined: Shift in Delivery

Traditional to blended

Blended charters

Credit Recovery to Alternative Schools: Best example of performance based learning

Computers have not made a difference until recently in how learning takes place

How do we close and restart struggling schools?

Online and virtual

There are about 80 charter management cos but most will only do a grade at a time

How do you get really good teachers into poor rural areas or high crime urban areas? You wont.

25 states allow virtual charter schools

45 states with with online programs

Is there a good written policy of a high quality example: INacol report.

What is next: Next 24 months are going to be dynamic:

Common standards and Assessments ARRA

Adaptive LContent Learning Games

Learnign Networks Consumer Learning

Blended Learning Charter Networks

New paradigm: Social Learning Platform

I 3 grants opportunity:

Leveraging Federal Funds:

Karen Cator

Race to the Top

New Schools Ventures Fund

Invest in Innovation

“Exceptionally Unique and not widely adopted.”

ARIS Social Learning Platform NYC Schools 

http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/505278E9-3714-4E75-8D83-2B378AE7FB7C/66374/WhatsNext081409.pdf

Online Learning 2.0  High Tech High in San Diego

Platform Plays:  I dont understand that concept

Ecosystems around content and content platforms

Weird ending