Maine Learning Network

Hi all, we will be in Room 500 at the DOE, so we will have Tandberg if needed and could do a phone conference as well. I’ll have a formal agenda out later today, but the basic idea, I think, was what Chris […]

Hello?

So back on the topic of equitable access to digital learning opportunities, what do people think about having the state do an MLTI-like RFP for things like online courses? It would drive down costs, make course […]

So now that we have a date, I’d like to go back to establishing an agenda that will be productive for us. The legislative session is not too far ahead and we are already working on legislation for next session. […]

Hi all, you should have received an email indicating that we have scheduled our meeting for Wednesday, November 21, at noon, here in Augusta. I will take a stab at an agenda, based on Chris’s concept, and will […]

One quick question – if we are looking at 5 hours as Chris suggests, do we want to aim for an 8am to 1pm and do a working lunch in there somewhere, try at noon to 5pm instead? What would work best for folks?

I like this concept as well. I’ll have Georgette do a meeting survey of some kind – we’ll see what we can come up with. For me, it would have to be at least 3-4 weeks out if we want a 4-5 hour meeting…

On the accountability question, Jeff and I have talked a couple of times about developing some kind of “best practices” for MLTI integration – what we have learned from the program thus far – and perhaps, in the […]

Agreed, Cynthia, but the question is for policy purposes, do we allow only products and services from approved providers (under a new, more rigorous vetting process), to be made available to students?

I like it! Who would you have doing the collecting and vetting, Gail?

I’m going to weigh in in favor of some kind of face to face meeting. These online discussions are helpful, but find myself looking at the calendar, noting that it is already the second week of October, and […]

So how best do we deliver that? Under the RFP model I discussed above, we could stipulate what we’d like to see for PD, put that in the RFP, have the winning bidder manage it, and have the Department play the […]

We’ve been talking a little bit at the Department abut whether it might make sense to do some kind of MLTI-like RFP for digital learning content. We could decide we want X collection of digital learning resources […]

So it sounds like where we may be landing is that the MaineDOE already has an approved provider list that it develops as required by the Maine Online Learning Program statute, but because, as Megan observed, […]

I think the “how to engage parents” conversation is probably an extension of the discussion of the issue Rick laid out above, which is some educators not knowing how to integrate technology in a way that is […]

So would the clearinghouse simply provide information about digital learning options, or be a platform from which to access those options? We could easily do some kind of clearinghouse of what is out there, but as […]