Webinars

Social-Emotional Learning and Restorative Justice Solutions

Thomas Soria, Chris Arrington, Meggan Mertz

As part of Michigan’s Top 10 in 10 initiative, schools are beginning to rethink what it means to address the “whole child” in education....

Developing a Survey Instrument for Evaluating K-12 Blended Teacher Readiness

Dr. Charles Graham, Dr. Jered Borup

Blended teaching — which combines online and in-person instruction — is becoming more commonplace in K-12 schools. In this webinar, we...

Teachers and Mentors: Students Talk about Online Learner Supports

Jered Borup, Chawanna Chambers, Rebecca Stimson

During a series of focus groups, 51 students from three Michigan high schools shared their perceptions and feedback about instructional...

Design Learning for Visually Impaired Students with NVDA

Jeff Gerlach

In this webinar, Jeff reviews Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA), an open-source screen reader for Windows. Screen readers help those with...

Online Learning and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

Jeff Gerlach

The Accessible Classroom is a video series exploring web accessibility for K-12 education. We’ll dive into concepts and tools that can...

YouTube Closed Captions for Hearing Impaired Students

Jeff Gerlach

In this webinar, Jeff shows how teachers can use YouTube’s closed captioning to support access to videos for those with hearing...

Michigan’s K-12 Virtual Learning Effectiveness Report, 2016-17 - May 23, 2018 @ 2 p.m. EST

Based on pupil completion and performance data reported by schools to MDE or CEPI, Michigan’s K-12 Virtual Learning Effectiveness Report...

The Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students (MITECS) - May 2, 2018 @ 2 p.m. EST

The Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students (MITECS), released December 2017, replace the 2009 Michigan Educational...

Enrollment and Achievement in Ohio's Online Charter Schools

This webinar session presents findings from a study of enrollment patterns and student outcomes in Ohio's full-time online charter...

Attitudes and Achievement in a K-12 Blended Learning Setting

Dr. Phoebe Balentyne

This session presented findings from a study investigating the relationship between students’ achievement and their attitudes in a...

Examining Student Learning Pathways Through an Online Algebra Course

Dr. Peiyi Lin, Dr. Susan Lowes

This session highlighted findings from a study investigating student pacing and engagement in online Algebra I courses, including the...

Presence as Support in a Blended Learning Classroom

This session shared findings from a narrative inquiry that explored various aspects of presence in a blended middle school classroom,...

Opportunities With Quality Matters and Michigan Virtual

This session focused on the opportunities afforded by participating in professional learning workshops from Quality Matters, a nationally...

Michigan's 2016 Virtual Learning Effectiveness Report

Representatives from MVLRI discuss analysis and findings on a wealth of data collected for this annual report on virtual learning in...

Professional Learning for Blended Education in Michigan

This webinar session highlights findings of a study on teachers implementing blended learning in Michigan and building their own...

Establishing Presence and Community in the Online Classroom

This session touches on four dimensions of a successful virtual community: the online persona and virtual classroom, the synchronous...

The Use of Games in Online and Blended Courses

Our research fellow Dennis Beck will present an overview of the research on the use of games in K-12 online and blended courses and...

Choice, Cyber Schools and the Educational Marketplace for Rural School Districts

This session highlights findings from a study on enrollment patterns of students in brick-and-mortar and cyber charter schools in...

Teachers Using Designerly Thinking in K-12 Online Courses

This session shares findings from a case study examining the design process of eleven high school teachers as they designed their first...

The Journal Review Process

In this interactive panel session, one provocateur and three discussants with a wide range of experiences with academic journals share...