Brian @ CLRN

Falling quickly on the heals of my past post was a brief but informing article in EdSource entitled, “Students Need Supervision to Make Online Learning Work.” In it, Susan Fey outlines how Fresno Unified School District increased their online course completion rate to 95% this summer. From previous posts, you’ve learned that online course completion [...]

In part one of this series, I discussed the how students in Ohio’s online schools are struggling to make academic progress while part two reviewed California academic data from virtual schools. In today’s post, we’ll share the results from a Minnesota report with academic performance data that mirrors problems we’ve seen in California’s virtual schools. [...]

How closely should virtual schools’ feet be held to the proficiency fire? Should we provide them more time before we make comparisons between them and traditional schools? Regardless, what are the reasons virtual schools perform more poorly than the general student population? All good questions. I appreciate Rob Darrow’s detailed response to my earlier post [...]

Prelude: It’s Clayton Christensen’s and Michael Horn’s fault. It was their book, Disrupting Class, that led me to take the “blue pill” and become a convert to the e-learning revolution. I believe in its ability to improve student learning and provide students more choices. CLRN is committed to providing high quality online course reviews that [...]