The Alliance for Excellent Education

Invites You to Attend a Webinar on

Online Learning:
Addressing Challenges, Seizing Opportunities

Thursday, July 8, 2010
WEBINAR: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
LIVE WEBCHAT: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

Featured Participants
Allison Powell, Vice President, International Association for K-12 Online Learning
Lori Westhoff, Principle, Humboldt High School (Humboldt, Iowa)
Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education
(additional speakers to be announced)

America's K-12 education system faces three significant challenges: (1) increased global demands for skilled workers, (2) significant financial shortfalls, and (3) a looming teacher shortage. Independently, these factors present significant challenges for U.S. schools. In combination, they create a national imperative for swift action to create a more innovative, effective, and efficient education system.

Every day, creative educators are using technology better to meet the needs of students and teachers. Technology can no longer be considered an "add-on" tool in education but rather one that is integral. Embracing online-learning opportunities for students and teachers will strengthen the supply and quality of teachers, improve efficiency, and increase students' college and career readiness.

The Alliance for Excellent Education recently published two documents to help education leaders and policymakers understand these issue better. ""The Online Learning Imperative: A Solution to Three Looming Crises in Education" is a brief that describes the three crises confronting the nation and suggests ways that online learning can lead the U.S. education system out of them. The "Online Learning: Addressing Challenges and Seizing Opportunities" state profiles present state-specific information about the three crises in each state, online-learning opportunities in that state, the presence of state policies that support online learning, and how federal policy supports online learning in that state.

On July 8, 2010, the Alliance for Excellent Education will host a webinar to release these publications and facilitate a conversation among experts using questions submitted by participants from the around the country. Following the webinar, panelists will participate in a live online chat.

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