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Online education discussed at Steubenville Rotary Club
Posted: March 31, 2012 at 6:29 am
STEUBENVILLE - The advances in online education were discussed during Friday's luncheon meeting of the city Rotary Club at the city YWCA.
Nick Trombetta, chief executive officer of Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School; Mike McVey, superintendent of Steubenville City Schools; and Chuck Kokiko, curriculum director for the Steubenville Cyber Academy, told Rotarians cyber schooling for education was the wave of the future.
Trombetta said the Midland, Pa.-based cyber school had approached the Franciscan University of Steubenville about developing an online program for its online instructors to further their education.
"We asked (several colleges and universities) if it could put together a master's program," he said. "Franciscan University was the only school to say yes. Franciscan University embraced it."
Trombetta said the program was growing, and 50 graduates recently completed the university's online program. He also briefly discussed how the online charter school was a model for others throughout the nation, including how it took a small steel town and turned the area into an major, widely-respected educational hub.
Before introducing Kokiko, McVey told Rotarians establishment of the school district's cyber school was necessary if the district was to thrive in the future.
"We have to go this way," said McVey, adding the district was losing too many students and state funding to charter schools. "It's now competitive. This is where education is going. It's also the fiscally responsible way to go."
In discussing the district's cyber school, Kokiko cited statistics on the rise of online learning nationally and internationally.
"There will be a 158 percent increase in online learning in the next five years," said Kokiko, adding $2 billion was spent on online learning in 2011-12.
He said the Steubenville Cyber Academy was purchasing online curriculum through the National Network of Digital Schools, which serves more than 300 school districts nationwide.
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Florida education news: Twitter, school grades, online education and more
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TWEETING: USF's underwater research robot is sending reports back to shore via Twitter. (USF photo)
LESS STRESS: Gulf High principal Steve Knobl quits his post for a job that will give him new challenges and more family time.
NO MORE: Sacred Heart Academy in Tampa will close after 81 years because of low enrollment.
TOP OF THE CLASS: Kindergartners get a first peek at career options Stuffed animal pet show teaches Winding Waters Elementary students about real life creatures Springstead High students begin a humanities club to learn more about other cultures and religions
LOW EXPECTATIONS: Leon school officials brace for school grades to decline under new FCAT scoring guidelines, WFSU reports.
AT ODDS: The State Board of Education overrules the Duval School Board's denial of an online-only charter school, setting up a possible lawsuit, the Florida Times-Union reports.
BE SURE: Florida education leaders should ensure that online education offers at least comparable results to classroom learning before jumping more deeply into that arena, the Orlando Sentinel editorializes.
EXTRA HELP: A Stuart church begins its Homework Angels program to help children whose parents don't speak English to complete their school work, the Stuart News reports.
LABOR NEWS: The Palm Beach Classroom Teachers Association has ousted its executive director, the Palm Beach Post reports.
STILL SHRINKING: The Flagler school district looks for ways to continue cutting its spending in order to keep its reserves sound, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports.
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Posted: March 30, 2012 at 1:27 pm
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Will Online Education Replace College?
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Will great free courses drive down applications to places like Stanford? That's doubtful. It's more likely that these offerings will help build a stronger university brand.
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A well-run university is a machine. And as a saying used to go, attributed to a boss of my native Chicago, "Thank God we're a machine. If we lost, we'd be an organization." The old big-city machines served the interests of the powerful, but they stayed in power by delivering services to the 99 percent. And private universities could indeed share their fate if they're inflexible. But actually they're highly sophisticated and adaptable, or else so many high-school students and their parents wouldn't be going to such great lengths to get into them. It's actually the public universities that have been bureaucratically hidebound, passing up opportunities under their noses. As Bill Breen has written in Fast Company, it was Stanford's chief fundraiser who helped John Sperling launch a new style of education:
In 1972, he was chosen to run a series of workshops at San Jose State that would prepare police officers and teachers to work with juvenile delinquents. He built the program around some of the same pedagogical tools that he would later employ at the University of Phoenix: He brought in teachers who were experts in their fields, divided the class into small groups, and challenged each group to complete a project. He was surprised when the enthusiastic students lobbied him to create degree programs. Which is exactly what he did.
Sperling sketched out a curriculum for working adults and pitched it to the academic vice president at San Jose State, who promptly slapped it down. "My university said they didn't need no more stinkin' students, that they had all they could handle," Sperling acidly recalls. "They told me to go back and behave -- be a professor." Naturally, he ignored that advice. Even though he held business in contempt -- as would any right-thinking, left-leaning humanities professor -- the marketplace intrigued him. And he sensed an enormous market for degree-based programs targeted at working adults who were anxious to take the road to higher education.
Gambling that he could take the adult-education curriculum that San Jose State had rejected and make it succeed elsewhere, Sperling set about putting his ideas to work. He sought out the vice president of development at Stanford University, a man named Frank Newman, who threw a dash of reality onto his ambitions. Newman warned that educational bureaucracies innovate only out of fiscal desperation. In a letter, he advised Sperling to "find a school in financial trouble and convince the people running it that your program will generate a profit." Sperling found the University of San Francisco, a cash-strapped, Jesuit-run institution that became his first client.
And none of this is really new; it goes back to the university extension movement of over a century ago and to project like Harvard President Charles W. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, read by Malcolm X in prison.
Will great free online courses like Thrun's drive down applications to places like Stanford? To the contrary, I think they will increase competition to get in, just as electronic music helped live concerts and online art museum galleries make most people more eager to visit and see the actual original, even when (as with the Mona Lisa) security measures mean that they could see it more clearly on line or in a printed book.
Instead of bashing higher education some Journal contributor should study it as an example of an institutional survivor that weathered the crises of 1893 (during which the University of Chicago was founded), 1929, the Vietnam era, 1970s stagflation, and the continuing recession. How many other great organizations have continued to grow? Online courses, far from the beginning of the end, are another validation of a flexible strategy.
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Posted: March 29, 2012 at 10:14 am
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