In this presentation, blendedschools.net shares what goes into planning and pulling together a quality online program including essential characteristics, sources and information that should be investigated during design and development and how schools are expanding and enhancing instruction with online teaching and learning technologies and curriculum. Jed Friedrichsen, Chief Administrative Officer, blendedschools.net and Mark Gensimore, Project Manager, blendedschools.net share a practical process and ready tools for creating your own online program. This includes how they have been combining quality standards for online programs, rethinking schools, cultivating communities of practice and essential business strategies. blendedschools.net has experience helping 160 school districts design and implement online programs and share their strategies for success.

1. Jed Friedrichsen, Chief Administrative Officer, and Mark Gensimore, Project Manager, Blendedschools.net Standards for Planning and Implementing Your Online Program

2. Standards for Planning and Implementing Your Online Program Jed Friedrichsen Mark Gensimore November 4, 2009

4. Trends in K-12 online teaching & learning

5. 70% of all students in public HS graduate 32% leave HS qualified to attend 4-year colleges drop-out in urban areas average 50% www.manhattan-institute.org

6. 47% say a major reason for dropping out was the “classes were not interesting” and they were “bored” 88% of dropouts have passing grades Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2006

7. International migration is the human face of globalization. There are now between 185 and 200 million transnational migrants, making migration a global phenomenon involving every region of the world. United Nations Global Commission on International Migration, 2005

8. The United States is now in the midst of the largest wave of immigration in history, with more than 1 million new immigrants arriving each year, for a total immigrant-born population of more than 35 million... U.S. Census Bureau, 2007

16. Efficiency Roles Organization Technology Activities Deliverables knowledge value worker productivity

17. Standards for quality online programs

28. planning a successful online programs

30. 5 Forces that Shape Competition for Online Programs Threat of New Entrants Bargaining Power of Suppliers Threat of Substitute Products or Services Bargaining Power of Buyers Rivalry Among Existing Competitors

32. Conceiving New Market Space head-to-head competition blue ocean creation Industry Focus on rivals Looks across alternative industries Strategic group Focus on competitive position Looks across strategic groups within industry Buyer group Focus on better serving the buyer group Redefines the industry buyer group Scope of product or service offering Focus on maximizing the value of product & service offering within bounds of its industry Looks across to complementary product & service offerings Functional-emotional orientation Focus on improving price performance Rethinks the functional-orientation of its industry Time Focus on adapting to external trends as they occur Participates in shaping external trends over time

47. Examples of successful, quality online programs

48. How school districts use BSN online courses Charter school students 36% Home schooled students 33% Homebound students 38% Gifted education or acceleration 43% Alternative education 42% Summer school 48% Supplementing regular classroom instruction 69% Students who travel 14% Remediation 27% Credit recovery 46% Other 22%

52. Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. Katharine Hepburn It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another." Nelson Mandela

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