Bb - Best of Presentation: FLVS

Best of BbWorld: How to Take Online Learning to the Next Level: Highly Interactive Virtual Education

Overview of FLVS

Enrollment is at over 250,000+ - grown explonentially, from 10,000 in the year 2000-2001
1300 employees - 1000 are teachers
State pays only when the student has successfully completed
Implement Grade forgiveness - try to get them to pass, retake courses or resubmit assignments until it meets standards
Every 3-5 years - rewrite course (80%+ of the content)
30-40% of students who enroll are in a failing situation
Work with all 67 school districts in Florida. 17 schools have opted to franchise from FLVS which allows them use of content, CMS and professional development
Look at login stats and see that students typically login from 10am - 10pm
Each student is paired up with an FLVS instructor. Instructor makes monthly phone calls to parents and sometimes weekly phone calls with students

Gaming Course - Conspiracy Code

Semester long American History course (1 credit)
Students are in a virtual game, problem solving, learning about history
51 assessments
Data maps to help with gathering information
Used shell of game to create reading program. Plans to develop more game-based courses (5-6 months development time)

Course Tours: http://www.flvs.net/areas/flvscourses/Pages/CourseTours.aspx

Archive Link: https://blackboard.webex.com/blackboard/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=48537037&rKey=7108554bda89db6e

Comments

Anonymous said…

Darn it, you beat me! I attended the webinar too & was just going to post my review. I thought it was a good, informative session. You highlighted all most all of the points I listed in my notes. I also noted the following...

- their students tend to score higher on state exams than those in traditional schools
- 45 states & 34 countries use their curriculum in some form
- students can enter & finish the courses at anytime during the year.
- for a demo of Conspiracy Code visit http://360ed.com/

Good stuff!

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