PurposePurpose

To show CAL online coursesTo show CAL online coursesTo share the implementation To share the implementation

planplanTo share future plansTo share future plans

““The question is no longer The question is no longer if if the the Internet can be used to transform Internet can be used to transform

learning in new and powerful learning in new and powerful ways. The Commission has found ways. The Commission has found

that it can. It is time we that it can. It is time we collectively move the power of the collectively move the power of the

Internet for learning from Internet for learning from promise to practice.”promise to practice.”  

““The question is no longer The question is no longer if if the the Internet can be used to transform Internet can be used to transform

learning in new and powerful learning in new and powerful ways. The Commission has found ways. The Commission has found

that it can. It is time we that it can. It is time we collectively move the power of the collectively move the power of the

Internet for learning from Internet for learning from promise to practice.”promise to practice.”  

--The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice. Report of the Web Based Commission to The President and the Congress of the United States. December, 2000.

Web Commission Web Commission Report to CongressReport to Congress (Dec. 2000)(Dec. 2000)

Background Statistics-InternetInternet

• The Internet had more users in its first five years than the telephone did in its first thirty

• E-mail outnumbers regular mail by nearly ten to one

• The web is still doubling in size… every 90 days

• A new web page appears every 4 minutes

Background Statistics-BusinessBusiness

• Technology-based training will increase more than four fold over the next five years

• IDC, 1999, US IT Education and Training Revenues 1997-2003

• 92 % of large organizations are implementing some form of on-line learning this year.

• Fortune Online, May 24, 1999

Background Statistics-ChildrenChildren

• By the year 2002, 45 million children online• Oct 24, 1997 - FIND/SVP

• Currently 88 million offspring ages 0-20 in U.S.

• High school students today are first generation to grow up on the Internet

• Students internalize technology use, while adults have to adopt it

CUSD Superintendent Walt Buster

• September 2000 District Report:

• ““One of the things CUSD is doing One of the things CUSD is doing to prepare for the future are to prepare for the future are ‘Virtual Classrooms’ – CUSD ‘Virtual Classrooms’ – CUSD teachers are in the process of teachers are in the process of designing curriculum for a virtual designing curriculum for a virtual classroom where students can classroom where students can take courses on the Web...”take courses on the Web...”

Why online courses?Why online courses?

• What they will do:What they will do:Increase flexibility for pacing,

scheduling, and teacher accessibilityChoice for studentsChoice for studentsIndividualization for students

Disenfranchised studentsDifferent learning styles

Lack of intimidation in online Lack of intimidation in online environmentenvironment

• What they will do:What they will do:Increase flexibility for pacing,

scheduling, and teacher accessibilityChoice for studentsChoice for studentsIndividualization for students

Disenfranchised studentsDifferent learning styles

Lack of intimidation in online Lack of intimidation in online environmentenvironment

Why online courses?Why online courses?

• What they will do:What they will do:Erase time constraintsIncrease technological literacyIncrease technological literacyCreate another way to deliver

instructionConnect to business worldConnect to business worldExpand and enhance high school

offerings

Long Range Impact of Online Courses

What they may eventually do:What they may eventually do:Change the look of a high school

What they won’t do:What they won’t do:Won’t save money in the short termWon’t replace teachers

Background ResearchBackground Research

CUSD staff have been researching online CUSD staff have been researching online learning since Octoberlearning since October

Learned about various online courses Learned about various online courses around country – some for students as around country – some for students as young as first gradeyoung as first grade

CUSD staff collectively discovered CUSD staff collectively discovered Florida Online High SchoolFlorida Online High School

Why Florida Online HS courses?

They are quality online coursesThey are multi-dimensional They are web basedThey are engaging and interesting for

students

Florida Online

High School www.fhs.net

In existence for 4 yearsHave 50 online courses for 3500

students throughout FloridaTaught by best teachers in FloridaNever see students face-to-faceFunded by State of Florida - $15 millionStudent success – AP Testing results and

student and parent surveys

Delivery

Primarily asynchronous (students do content any time)

Synchronous capability (online at same time- i.e. chat room)

Communication teacher to student via e-mail, phone and web

Integrated lessons

CUSD Teachers Trained in Florida

Verified that course content is solid and meets Clovis and California standards

One teacher comment: “The “The content of these courses is every content of these courses is every bit as dynamic, exciting, and bit as dynamic, exciting, and rigorous as any of our face to face rigorous as any of our face to face Clovis courses.” Clovis courses.”

CClovis lovis AAnytime nytime LLearningearningCClovis lovis AAnytime nytime LLearningearning

Algebra I Biology English 9 AP Government

and Economics*

• Summer school and 2001-2002 school yearSummer school and 2001-2002 school year

4 Courses for 4 Courses for

CAL OnlineCAL Online

*Fall only