But the main focus of new institutions should be on creating high-quality online curriculum and demonstrating that quality.
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Tracy had been in discussion with Karlie's public high school about alternative education programs, and they were coordinating an online curriculum for her daily classes.
Online curriculum is similarly getting more sophisticated and less expensive.
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At Creighton, the curriculum online is exactly the same as on campus.
Also, the online software or curriculum will obviate the need for lesson planning for most teachers, even as some teachers may have to figure out how to extend curriculum and offer other pathways though the learning for different students.
To pass the time, he planned to hunt for jobs online, update his curriculum vitae and freshen up his social profile.
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Key to this has been an NSF initiative called I-Corp done in concert with the NCIIA. Blank and Jerry Engel of the Berkley Haas School has put together a terrific curriculum and set of online lectures for validating the business and marketing aspect of a tech startup.
Online classes have already become part of an extended curriculum for many students.
Ms. Galina Gavrilitse, the Consultant of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Moldova, shared the experience in development of educational online resources for sexual education and HIV prevention in school curriculum.
He scrapped the ICT curriculum from last September and called on schools to use online resources to teach computing so that even 11-year-olds would be capable of writing simple 2D computer animations.
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Online courses can be provided as part of regular degree programs or as discrete curriculum-independent products.
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There is hope, though: social networks have started to have an accelerating effect on the practical implementation of the ideas originally published by the Ivan Illiches of this world, through the online actions and interactions of a growing innovative band of social networking school-builders, curriculum designers, teachers, parents and students.
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