Friday, March 6, 2009

Re: Independent School Online Courses

Fred - great idea.

We're about to get hit with an absolute explosion of interest in, and
offerings of, online courses. It would be helpful for everyone to have a
venue not only to exchange information for accessibility, but for quality as
well.

Norman Maynard
Interim Head of School
Thornton Friends School

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Fred Bartels <fred_bartels@rcds.rye.ny.us>wrote:

> I wonder if perhaps there might be a number of independent schools with
> faculty who are already offering, or are planning to offer, online
> courses? If there are, I think it might be helpful to have a web site to
> help students find available courses and to facilitate collaboration
> between independent school faculty offering/developing online courses.
> Ideally such a site could help students and faculty build personal
> learning networks and online learning communities in subjects of interest
> to them. I'm curious what others think?
>
> >Colleagues,
> >
> >A few months back there was a discussion on this list around the question
> >of
> >an online AP Computer Science course. In response to that, and a need we
> >have, we are planning to offer both AP Computer Science and AP Art History
> >as online courses next year. We would welcome hearing from any of your
> >students who might be interested in enrolling.
> >
> >If you are interested in more information, please feel free to contact me
> >off list.
> >
> >Peter
> >
> > *Peter Richardson*
> >Director of Technical Services
> >Rutgers Preparatory School
> >1345 Easton Avenue
> >Somerset, NJ 08873
> >
> >732-545-5600 x238
>
>
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