Join leaders in online and blended learning for the 9th Annual Online Learning Institute during the ISTE Conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Antonio on June 26 from 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Registration is now available at the ISTE registration site!* 

The Online Learning Institute is sponsored by EDC’s EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO), International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL), Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Early bird registration is $129 and ends May 1! After May 1, the registration fee is $159.

Highlights of the day are keynote and panel presentations and roundtable discussions. The registration fee also includes breakfast and lunch which provide additional time for making connections with others interested in online and blended learning. The keynote speaker is Dr. David Rose, CAST CEO and Co-Founder and panelists include Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow CEO, and Angela Smith, Texas Virtual School Network Operations Director.

Don’t miss this chance to hear exciting keynote and panel discussions and to share strategies and lessons about implementing successful online and blended learning programs in states, districts, schools and other organizations with school, district, state and national leaders in the field of online and blended learning!

Visit the Online Learning Institute website at http://oli.etlo.org for the preliminary agenda. Be sure follow us on Twitter (@edtechleaders) for the most recent conference updates. We hope you can join us for exciting keynote and panel presentations and in‐depth roundtable discussions about the power and future of online learning while networking with practitioners from around the country! For more information contact Leinda Peterman, ETLO, Matlea Parker, SREB, Barbara Treacy, ETLO or Rob Darrow, iNACOL.

*Contact Leinda Peterman at lpeterman@edc.org if you wish to register only for the Online Learning Institute.

ETLO's director, Barbara Treacy, discusses the benefits for teachers’ use of technology in online professional development in the March 14th edition of Education Week.

Barbara shares, "They themselves are being engaged in learning with technology...This is good because they actually get what's going on with the learning environment, and how it is enhanced with technology...Using it in their own learning is a great way to help students use it." 

Read the article by clicking the link below.

When Intel was looking to partner with experts in online professional development to redesign their successful Intel Teach Elements online professional development courses and prepare online facilitators to deliver these courses to educators in their states, Intel turned to ETLO. Since 2011, ETLO has collaborated with Intel to adapt the Intel Teach Elements courses for effective implementation online in a facilitated, learning community model and align the courses to the Common Core State Standards. ETLO has also provided online facilitator training courses for educators in 22 “Intel Teach Affiliate” states to prepare them as online facilitators and enable participating states to have their own online professional development program.

The newly released Intel® Teach Elements case study highlights the success of this partnership and stories from state implementation of Intel Teach Elements courses across the country.

Intel Teach Elements courses are available free of charge to state or regional agencies, districts, schools, colleges and universities. The courses address key topics important to educators including: Project-Based Approaches, Assessment of 21st Century Skills, Educational Leadership, Thinking Critically with Data, Collaboration, Science Inquiry, and Designing Blended Learning.

To learn more about participating in the Intel Teach Elements program, visit www.intel.com/education/elements.

To access the case study, click the link to the PDF file below.

ETLO's director, Barbara Treacy, talks with Education Week about the role that hybrid/blended professional development plays in supporting educators with differentiating instruction. ETLO offers online professional development programs to help educators implement blended professional development programs. Click the link below to read the article in Education Week.