Blended & Remote Learning Since 2000
The founder of The Learning Collective is also the founder of ICouldBe, which has been providing blended and remote learning services to schools nationally for over 20 years. Since 2000, ICouldBe’s virtual mentoring program has provided 25,000 high school students with an online community of professional mentors, empowering teens to stay in school, plan for future […]
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 […]
10 Free Great Learning Apps
We’re not necessarily saying these are the 10 best free iPad apps for students and teachers. Though they could be. These are 10 excellent apps that are worth your looking into:
TLC Members’ Work Webby Nominated
TLC Members’ Work Nominated for 2011 Webby in Youth Category
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
Thought Leaders vs Company Bloggers
Now that businesses have all rushed to have Twitter and Facebook profiles and to maintain company blogs, has the onslaught of information made it actually more difficult to get your message heard?
Business strategy and information technology consultant Stowe Boyd wrote a blog post on Thursday entitled “Thought Leadership: Beyond Marketing” in which he suggests that the rise of social media might be making us immune to marketing. Boyd suggests that startups might benefit from rethinking how they position themselves online to land on the side of that signal-to-noise ratio so that they’re actually heard.
Vernacular Video Culture in Education
A video by Howard Rheingold discussing collaborative learning and video.
Cloud-Based, Open-Source For Teachers?
A computing device for every teacher and student so they can access the Internet at school or at home? That, along with an embrace of cloud computing, Creative Commons, and open-source technologies is part of a new set of recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education.
Virtual Worlds as Scientific Tools
Virtual worlds have grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years, and their applications in expressing political messages and building competitive online-based businesses seem to expand with each new release. But what about scholars at universities and think tanks who hope to use virtual worlds and the social microcosms they create as part of serious academic study?
Education and Google Buzz…A Match?
It seems, Google has thrown down the gauntlet…Google Buzz is a incredibly powerful attempt to take a piece of Facebook’s market share in social networking. Google Buzz is powerful because if you have a Gmail account you are already a member. Within minutes of logging in to my Gmail account I had followers and I […]