OER Commons
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
CAST UDL Exchange
What is CAST UDL Exchange?
It is a place to browse and build resources, lessons and collections. You can use and share these materials to support instruction guided by the UDL principles.
eLearning Days Planning Documents and Lessons
Lesson Organization and Communication
Essential Elements for eLearning
Essential Elements for eLearning is a free professional learning community that provides policy makers, school administrators and educator leaders a better understanding of policies and practices related to online learning, digital content, and eLearning days.
School Closure Readiness Rubric
From Michigan: School Closure Learning Continuity Readiness Rubric
SETDA Coalition for eLearning
Just launched! – SETDA’s Coalition for eLearning, with support and resources for states and districts ramping up for virtual learning opportunities. Visit http://coalitions.setda.org/elearning
The power of SETDA is in collective action. SETDA represents the collective capacity and resources of digital learning leaders from all U.S. states and territories, as well as affiliate members and private sector partners. SETDA Coalitions are examples of how leaders can focus a powerful network of policy makers, influencers, and thought leaders to produce solutions on a national scale.
Resources for school districts include:
- Rationale and research on why limiting disruption to learning opportunities is critical
- Communication tools for state, district and school stakeholders
- Access to partner solutions: an aggregation of free or reduced-price solutions including content, online tools, broadband/device access and webinar tools
- Examples of state and district policies for eLearning days
- District pilot examples from at least three states
National Standards for Quality Online Teaching (K-12) Literature Review
This literature review has been conducted to inform the work of the National Standards for Quality Online Teaching revisions, a project led by a partnership between Quality Matters and the Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance. It includes a short summary of the relevant research literature followed by an alphabetical listing of the resources correlated to the National Standards for Quality Online Teaching to which they apply. This review includes an appendix that lists additional standards sets, which can be consulted as resources, as well as abstracts for most of the references listed.
National Standards for Quality Online Learning
The National Standards for Quality Online Courses, Online Teaching and Online Programs have been the benchmark for online programs, districts and state agencies since their creation in 2007. The three standard sets were updated in 2019 and can be downloaded at the NSQ website (https://nsqol.org).
Online Learning Key Terms and Definitions
Online Learning Key Terms and Definitions
As the number of online learners across the country continues to grow and the group of stakeholders in online and blended learning expands – teachers, administrators, parents and legislators, commercial providers – the need for a common vocabulary increases. The field is becoming jargon heavy, with different segments of digital learning community using some unique terms interchangeably, or misrepresenting aspects on online and blended learning through a simply misunderstanding the most widely accepted definition of a key term.
A quick search of the web provides a number of truncated lists of key terms and definitions for online and blended learning. We have attempted to assemble a more complete list of key terms and definitions in an attempt to help standardize the language around online and blended, and make research in to digital learning space more convenient. The members of the Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance hope you find this aggregated set of key terms and definitions useful.
ISTE Standards for Educators and Administrators
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) developed the ISTE Standards (formerly known as the NETS) for learning, teaching and leading in the digital age. Included in the standards are ISTE Standards for Teachers (ISTE Standards•T) and ISTE Standards for Administrators (ISTE Standards•A). These standards provide details related to evaluating the skills and knowledge educators need to teach, work and learn in an increasingly connected global and digital society.