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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… Read more
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…. Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
Spotlight on Online Learning in Michigan Schools
Michigan VirtualThe seven profiled schools each have their own online learning story to tell. The schools were asked to provide information on the historical, current and future use of online learning in their schools. Questions were asked about when online… Read more
We can do more with less
Michigan VirtualWritten by Neil Marchuk Executive Vice President of Human Resources, TRW Automotive Chairman of the Michigan Virtual Board of Directors Michigan can harness innovation as a way to do more with less in K-12 education, even though that challenge… Read more
Online learning featured aspect of federal technology plan
Michigan VirtualGoals and recommendations inform state and local technology plans LANSING – In early March, the United States Department of Education announced the release of Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology, the National Education Technology Plan (NETP) 2010. This… Read more
Online learning an ‘integral part of the total education environment’
Michigan VirtualAlliance for Excellent Education brief advocates for changes in education LANSING – According to an IssueBrief published by the Alliance for Excellent Education, K-12 education is dealing with three major crises nationwide, and the time to “change crisis to… Read more
Michigan Virtual releases RFI for online course content
Michigan VirtualMichigan Virtual is seeking leading providers of online K-12 education in beginning- through advanced-level instruction in the content areas of Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science and Social Studies for online high school and middle school students. Michigan Virtual invites… Read more
Recommendations for Full-time Online Learners
Michigan VirtualThe purpose of Recommendations for Supporting Full-time Online Learners is to provide schools: Guidance for implementing full-time online learning options A mentor self-assessment tool that emphasizes the importance of online mentors A sample school board policy regarding online learning… Read more
Michigan Virtual reorganizes to improve services to schools
Michigan VirtualNew management structure aims to strengthen customer relations LANSING – Michigan Virtual® announces the reorganization of its management structure with the appointment of Dr. David Myers as the leader of the company’s two educational programs: Michigan Virtual® and Michigan… Read more
Online Teacher of the Year selected
Michigan VirtualOnline instructor Melanie Laber excels in the virtual classroom LANSING – Melanie Laber teaches trigonometry, geometry and pre-algebra to students in Detroit, Paw Paw, Traverse City and Houghton. She was recently named Michigan’s Online Teacher of the Year. Laber… Read more
Michigan Virtual celebrates sixth successful symposium
Michigan VirtualLansing – The sixth annual Michigan Virtual online learning symposium, Connecting with Youth in a Media-rich World, was attended by over 260 online learning enthusiasts Wednesday, Dec. 1, at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing. Attendees heard provocative keynotes… Read more
A Report to the Legislature, 2009
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… Read more
Michigan Virtual named Educational Program of the Year
Michigan VirtualLansing – Michigan Virtual® was named Educational Program of the Year at the Ninth Annual Awards Gala in Detroit on Friday, Sept. 25. Michigan Virtual® offers online learning courses and services to both Michigan students and educators through its… Read more
Student demand for online learning creates gap
Michigan VirtualLANSING –While online learning and virtual schools continue to grow annually, a recent study shows that educators aren’t prepared for the number of students who want to learn online. A national study tracked the growing student demand for online… Read more
