Tag: distance education

Worth Our Embrace

Worth Our Embrace Digitally Lit #238 – 3/21/2020** Hi all, welcome to issue #238 of Digitally Literate. I worked on the following this week: The Online Learning Collective – Together with a group of new friends, we volunteered to start up a Facebook Group to support educators as they adapt to the challenges of bringing…

A rural school turns to digital education. Is it a devil's bargain?

A rural school turns to digital education. Is it a devil’s bargain? (NBC News)

“When you eliminate the school, we’ve seen what happens to these small towns,” a school board member said. “We didn’t want our community to die.”

A case study of a distance ed program in Modoc, Indiana. The report focuses on the Indiana Digital Learning School, which serves students in K through 9th grade. The report shares: Public school advocates are concerned that the district is acting out of a sense of desperation for dollars because consolidation is on the horizon…