Digital Learning Now! Highlights Element #5: Content

Alliance President Bob Wise and Open Education Solutions CEO Tom Vander Ark continue Digital Learning Now!'s (DLN) video series outlining the "10 Elements of High-Quality Digital Learning."

Today's video focuses on Element #5: "Content," which says that digital content, instructional materials, and online and blended learning courses must be high quality. In the video below, Wise and Vander Ark explain that the dynamic nature of digital content and its varied uses requires a fresh and innovative approach to ensuring high quality content. Like print content, digital content should be aligned to state academic standards or common core standards for what students are expected to learn.

Watch the entire video below.

Bob Wise and Tom Vander Ark Discuss the 2011 PDK/Gallup Poll and Its Findings on Digital Learning

In the video below, Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, and Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Open Education Solutions, discuss the findings related to digital learning from the 2011 PDK/Gallup Poll on the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools.

Later that afternoon, Wise and Vander Ark participated in an event at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC, to discuss the findings in greater detail. Clara Hogan, the Alliance's communications associate, wrote a summary of that event for the blog.

Digital Learning Now! Highlights Element #3: Personalized Learning

Alliance President Bob Wise and Open Education Solutions CEO Tom Vander Ark continue Digital Learning Now!'s (DLN) video series outlining the "10 Elements of High-Quality Digital Learning." Today's video focuses on Element #3: Personalized Learning," which says that all students can customize their education using digital content through an approved provider.

Digital Learning Now! Highlights Element 2: Student Access

Alliance President Bob Wise and Open Education Solutions CEO Tom Vander Ark continue Digital Learning Now!'s (DLN) nine-week video series outlining the "10 Elements of High-Quality Digital Learning." Today, they discuss the second element: "Student Access," where all students have access to high-quality digital learning content and online courses.