Project 24 is a comprehensive district-level technology planning tool that has embedded advice, implementation ideas and tangible suggestions to support district-wide technology planning.
The Open Badges Infrastructure is a standard and a platform for issuing, storing, and sharing “micro-credentials,” recognition for skills and achievements that learners have completed.
This initiative provides a competency-based approach to assessing teaching practices, uses expert and peer reviews to ensure a rigorous standard and creates a clearinghouse where teachers can share best practices.
K-12 schools around the globe are piloting e-portfolio programs that allow students to showcase work, apply real-world skills, and track learning outcomes as they prepare for college and a career. This guide focuses on student-owned e-portfolios in the K-12 setting however, the same principles can be applied to teacher portfolios. Its purpose is to provide an introduction to e-portfolios and to explore how e-portfolios can be used throughout K-12 education.
This paper reviews three popular PLNs created for educators—Edmodo, Classroom 2.0, and The Educator’s PLN—and provides an analysis of how teachers use the PLNs for learning, sharing, and communicating.
This report provides an overview of professional learning and includes examples of formal and informal professional learning opportunities with some research regarding the effectiveness of self-directed learning opportunities.
LearnPort serves all members of Michigan’s educational community, including faculty, administrators and staff in schools, affiliated professional organizations, and college and university education students and their teacher education faculty, as well as guests and collaborating users by providing high-quality online professional development, collaboration spaces and other resources for the education community.
