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ON24 Launches Virtual Training Platform

May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Additional features of the virtual training platform include enterprise integration, allowing connection to Learning Management Systems and collateral/document repositories, while training measurement functionality highlights key metrics such as attendance, number of discussions/chats, documents downloaded and time spent in the virtual environment — providing meaningful insight into learner participation and completion rates. Its enterprise-class security ensures that only authorized individuals have access to the environment, and its “roles” feature allows companies to customize the experience and training for a learner’s position within the company. Finally, ON24′s VCU includes geography-specific virtual classrooms that enable country/market localization, with the ability to “toggle” between as many as 15 languages.

“With our innovative new virtual training platform, ON24 has developed an engaging training solution that serves global companies even more effectively,” commented Sharat Sharan, CEO of ON24. “The ON24 virtual learning solution gives the end user unprecedented access to online educational content while enabling employers to scale virtual training quickly, share institutional knowledge more effectively, and save time and cost versus live training.”

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Independent students go virtual

May 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

More than 15,000 K-12 students are enrolled in full-time virtual schools in California, according to the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. That doesn’t include thousands of students who take one or more online courses offered by K-12 school districts.

School districts in the Victor Valley and throughout California are expanding online offerings as they compete with statewide virtual alternatives.

This fall, Snowline Joint Unified School District is launching the first full-time virtual program that will teach students in grades K-12 under the umbrella of a local district. Enrollment is now open for the new program, which will have a home base at the former Desert View Independent School site in Phelan.

“It’s a wave of the future and it’s another option for kids,” Snowline Virtual School Administrator Chad Brooks said. “Some kids in today’s age just can’t sit in the classroom six, seven hours a day.”

Victor Valley High School is in the second year of its virtual “school within a school.” Through the blended program, online students can take some of the school’s traditional electives, join clubs and even participate in athletics, with several students in this year’s program on the football team.

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Parent Report on the Virtual School

May 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Because the mostly online school starts with kindergarteners, parents can’t just seat their kids in front of a computer and expect them to learn.

Administrator Meg Ervais described the K-2 program as requiring more parental involvement.

While Students in K-2 will be guided by a program called “Little Lincoln” the students will use text books and workbooks that directly correlate to the online teachings.

Grades 3-5 will use the “Lincoln” which is a bit more independent. They still use text and workbooks.

While both elementary programs do teach core curriculum, they use different textbooks and workbooks than CUSD brick-and-mortar schools. This would make changing midstream difficult.

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Online learning now essential, speakers say

May 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) hosted the 2012 Educational Summit on online education Thursday at Cal State Fullerton. The event was co-sponsored by CSUF’s University Extended Education.

About 30 people attended the event in the Titan Theatre to hear the panel discuss the future of technology in the classroom.

Judi Carmona, a school board member for Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, was among the attendees.

“I know that Sen. Huff is on the education committee in the senate, so what he has to say about education is of keen interest to me,” said Carmona.

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Virtual academies may not be best fit for our children

May 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Parents make important choices regarding their child’s education, so it is important to have enough information to make good decisions. Perhaps one question parents should consider asking themselves is with regard to virtual schools.
As a parent, is it a good decision to leave your student alone in front of a computer with their curriculum? Are you, as a parent, prepared to supervise your child’s education?
For parents who choose to enroll their children in independent online studies, your choice may translate into spending eight hours a day trying to help them receive the equivalent education they would be getting at a traditional school. The student may only be receiving the parent’s education level, as well as only that parent’s ability to teach and oversee the child’s academic needs in a multitude of subjects.

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SCHOOL NEWS: The Californian, April 30, 2012

April 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

TEMECULA —- Administrators from Temecula Advantage Virtual School will host two meetings Monday to provide students and parents with information about the online school, which will open in August.

Curriculum will be discussed at 5:30 p.m. and a general information meeting will be at 6:30 p.m.

Classes will be offered to children in grades 6 to 12 who will do most of their studying via computer.

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New K-5 charter school enrolling students

April 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Schuetz said parents of students at the charter school will have input in their child’s learning plan and there will be room for flexibility.

Julie Cortez, a parent on the developmental committee, said the flexibility offered in the charter school is one thing that appeals to her. She decided to home school her daughter Hannah, 7, through a virtual private school after realizing that traditional public school wasn’t meeting her needs. Hannah is currently in the fourth grade and Cortez said other students that are outliers in the public school system may be able to benefit from the charter’s flexible format.

“We realized she doesn’t fit into the typical public school mold and we had to meet her needs. She is in a private school right now, but it’s a virtual,” Cortez said. “We are paying full-tuition for an elementary student and we didn’t plan on doing that. I want the money to stay in the district.”

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Virtual school opens enrollment, plans informational session

April 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The academy is accepting students in kindergarten through 12th grades who reside in Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, Alameda, Amador, Calaveras and Contra Costa counties.

Connections Academy offers virtual education programs in 21 states.

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Virtual school to offer information in Visalia

April 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

An online public school will hold an informational session from 6:30-8:30 p.m. today at the Holiday Inn Visalia for parents of prospective students.

The informational session is the first in a series from the Central California Connections Academy, a Visalia-based, tuition-free virtual public school.

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Online Students Hold Virtual Town Hall

April 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

How does a virtual school take field trips? It borrows from the corporate world and hosts a teleconference, of course.

Capistrano Connections Academy is an online K-12 charter school through Capistrano Unified School District that opened in 2004. It allows students to “attend” class via their home computers.

So it recently hosted Q&A sessions with two local politicians the same way.

“It interests me what is happening in our country and how the people who are put into power are handling it,” said Austin Cuevas, a 17-year-old junior who lives in Mission Viejo.

In March, students “met” Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point, and earlier this month, they talked with state Sen. Mimi Walters, R-Laguna Niguel.

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