Private School Blended Learning Planning

The Learning Collective is working with Berkeley Hall School to determine whether blended learning and/or enhanced online learning is an instructional direction the school should pursue.  This represents a potential new direction for one of the most venerable independent schools in Southern California.   Based on The Learning Collective’s experience presenting at the Online Education […]

E-Portfolios for UCLA Teacher Ed Program

The Learning Collective has built an online portfolio platform for UCLA’s Teacher Education Program.  Teachers in training will use the platform to save, document and share their UCLA projects and experiences.  The Learning Collective will also provide related professional development. This is The Learning Collective’s second engagement with UCLA.  See what we did with the […]

TLC Welcomes The Digital Diva

Joquetta Lynn Johnson, aka The Digital Diva, is the newest Member of The Learning Collective.  Joquetta brings many years of experience and success utilizing, and training others how to leverage, educational technologies.

College Board Hires TLC

Each year, the College Board serves seven million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,800 colleges through major programs and services in college readiness, college admission, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning. The College Board has hired The Learning Collective to help develop College Board’s new online professional development model

Instructional Design Principles That Work

Over time we’ve found that digital learning initiatives are most effective when based on research proven instructional design principles. Rooted in psychology, instructional design refers to the practice of maximizing the appeal of instruction by focusing on the needs of the learner and on the end objective.