"Are you a forward-thinking educator interested in starting an innovative K-12 next generation learning program, initiative, or school…or moving your current program to the next level? If you are, you have probably been looking for that one-stop resource to help you start the planning and designing process. Well, look no further!"
iNACOL (the International Association for K-12 Online Learning) and NGLC (Next Generation Learning Center) have partnered and published a resource that will help you:
* Understand what next generation learning is
* Gain a working knowledge to help you design an approach that will work for your school
* Understand how to insure quality and have continued improvements
Why design a new toolkit?
"To be prepared for life and work today, students need their learning to be personalized, flexible, interactive, engaging, relevant, self-paced, constantly-informed, collaborative, responsive, supportive, challenging but achievable, and available."
The link above will take you to a page that provides a great overview (and to a website that has additional information you may want to explore). To go directly to the pdf file to download click on this link: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NGT1303.pdf.