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New Moodle app presents exciting opportunities for online learning!

Jared Stein from the Utah Education Network compares Moodle with other popular learning management platforms and demonstrates its most important features. Check out Stein’s presentation ( it’s a bit long but a good view).

Over the past few years, open curriculum has gained momentum in K-12 education. In the face of difficult economic circumstances, site administrators are finding their budgets squeezed by severe funding limitations.  In response to these challenges, public school throughout the country are building comprehensive online learning environments that present new and exciting learning opportunities for [...]

According to a new study by the research firm Ambient Insight, the number preK-12 students who will take some or all of their courses online will increase from 2 million to 10 million by 2014.

‘My Access’ Helps Students Write– Trent Toone, Standard Net
Teacher’s Worries Blossom into District’s Online Program– Eva-Marie Ayala, Star-Telegram
Competition Seeks Ways to Transform Learning– eSchool News
10.5M Pre K-12 Students to Take Online Course by 2014– Michael Horn, Disrupting Class
ELearning Conferences– Tony Karrer, eLearning Technology