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Study highlights blended learning
Michigan VirtualA new 178-page study by Innosight Institute and the Charter School Growth Fund reveals a broader picture of the emerging blended-learning market. The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning: Profiles of Emerging Models highlights 40 influential blended-learning organizations across the…
New Michigan history course available in Michigan LearnPort
Michigan VirtualA new, flexible, facilitated course for elementary teachers, Michigan History for Third Grade Teachers, is available in Michigan LearnPort. This course allows users to take some or all the course content, any time that works for them, in a…
Michigan Virtual presented and exhibited at MACUL
Michigan VirtualMichigan Virtual was well represented at the 2011 MACUL conference in Detroit. As one of 14 major sponsors of the event, Michigan Virtual staff participated in nine presentations and staffed a booth in the exhibitors’ area, showcasing Michigan Virtual…
Muskegon paper profiles Michigan Virtual teacher
Michigan Virtual“I believe I was selected as a finalist not because I am the best online teacher,” Andrew Vanden Heuvel said, “but because of my enthusiasm for online education and its power to transform how we approach teaching and learning…
Michigan Virtual instructor finalist for national award
Michigan VirtualMichigan Virtual for Students online teacher Andrew Vanden Heuvel of Grand Haven is one of five finalists for the 2011 National Online Teacher of the Year. The announcement of the 2011 National Online Teacher of the Year will be…
Mackinac Center study says online learning can improve student outcomes and save money
Michigan VirtualA study released by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy recommends that Michigan expand its leadership role in online education in light of research that indicates students can perform as well or better in online learning environments, and online…
Education Week article says ‘Online Credit Recovery Emphasizes Personalized Learning’
Michigan VirtualCredit recovery is one of the fastest-growing areas of online education, and the way course providers and developers are crafting those courses is changing quickly as well, an Education Week article reports. “We continually try to figure out what…
Interest in online learning continues to grow
Michigan VirtualAlong with the significant growth in online learning – Education Week reports that the percentage of high school students taking at least one online course in 2009 was nearly double the amount in 2008 – the available amount of…
Online teachers of the year invited to join Network of Michigan Educators
Michigan VirtualFour past and current Michigan Virtual Online Teachers of the Year have been invited to participate in the Network of Michigan Educators (NME). The invitees are 2008 Online Teacher of the Year, Lorri MacDonald; 2009 Online Teacher of the…
A Report to the Legislature, 2010
Michigan VirtualThis report is submitted in compliance with Section 98 (6) of Public Act 196 of 2014, which requires Michigan Virtual to provide, not later than December 1 of each fiscal year, a report to the House and Senate Appropriations…
Reports address dropout recovery and professional development for online learning
Michigan VirtualMichigan Virtual worked collaboratively with Dr. Richard Ferdig of Kent State University to produce two reports that provide educators with insights into two key areas of online learning: online professional development for teachers and the student dropout problem. Both…
Online teachers of the year selected
Michigan VirtualTeachers from opposite sides of the state were named Michigan Virtual’s Online Teacher of the Year at an awards presentation dinner at the Kellogg Center at MSU on Monday, Nov. 8. Molly Bruzewski of Bay City and Andrew Vanden…
Review of the Quality Assurance Review Team for Michigan Virtual
Michigan VirtualThe purpose of the Quality Assurance Review is to: Evaluate the school’s adherence to the AdvancED quality standards and policies. Assess the efficacy of the school’s improvement process and methods for quality assurance. Identify commendations and required actions to…
Michigan Virtual joins seat time waiver program
Michigan VirtualMichigan Virtual high school students now have the opportunity to take more than two online courses at a time – including a full-time online schedule – through the Genesee Network for Educational Telecommunications (GenNET) seat time waiver (STW) program….
Michigan Virtual teacher receives NASA ‘Gold Star’ for Hubble Space Telescope project
Michigan VirtualMichigan Virtual teacher Andrew Vanden Heuvel of Coopersville was one of 14 educators nationwide who claimed a “Gold Star” honor in the NASA-sponsored Top Stars contest, which invited U.S. formal and informal educators to submit their best examples of…
Courses added to Michigan LearnPort catalog
Michigan VirtualMichigan LearnPort added a sixth national provider of content with the addition of 10 Atomic Learning courses. Atomic Learning offers courses in 21st-century skills training on subjects relevant to modern teaching techniques. Tutorial series teach complex subjects in short…
Michigan Virtual to receive TechSmith software through grant program
Michigan VirtualTechSmith Corp., a Michigan-based company and the world’s leading provider of screen capture and screen recording solutions, awarded 339 Michigan schools, and Michigan Virtual, more than $2.3 million in multimedia software through the TechSmith Michigan K-12 Software Grant Program. Michigan…
Get smarter this summer with Michigan Virtual
Michigan VirtualMichigan Virtual for Students offers a variety of courses in the summer, including required courses like math, science, history, English and six world languages, and elective courses like Digital Photography, Film Studies and Web Design Basics. What are the…
Michigan Virtual starts monthly webinar series with National Technology Plan session
Michigan VirtualMichigan Virtual’s inaugural webinar will be available at 7 p.m. on May 20 when University of Michigan associate professor Barry Fishman presents The Next National Educational Technology Plan: Implications for Learning Online. In this session, Fishman, who served as…
Melanie Laber – Michigan’s Online Teacher of the Year
Michigan VirtualWritten by Carl Ill, Retired Michigan School Administrator This article first appeared in the April 19, 2010, edition of the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators TECHknowLOGY newsletter Melanie Laber is a busy woman. Besides maintaining a household and…
