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The Digital Backpack

Your resource for online learning

Your trusted source for K-12 online learning insights, teaching strategies, and success stories from Michigan’s leading virtual education provider. Join us as we explore innovative approaches to help students thrive in the digital age.

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Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute

We have compiled a list of peer-reviewed journals that publish pertinent scholarship specific to K-12 online and blended learning. The list includes journal titles, publishers, impact factor (when app

Research
AUG 11, 2014

Universal Student Transcripts — It's Only a Matter of Time

Gordon Freedman

Since the voluntary use of Internet technologies entered education, several waves of innovation have occurred; I would argue we are now at Wave Number 5 — personalized learning records or what I call

Leadership
JUL 01, 2014
GVSU Library

Lessons in physical space from the library

Jeff Gerlach

GVSU's library is a flexible study environment that K-12 education should emulate.

Blended Learning
JUN 09, 2014
Mrs. Wever speaking to her class

This Is Fourth Grade: A Blended Odyssey

Jeff Gerlach

Mary Wever personalizes learning to meet the diverse needs of her students.

Blended Learning
MAY 12, 2014
Using a computer in the dark

Confessions of an EdTech Guerrilla

Jeff Gerlach

Innovator or antagonist? You decide.

Blended Learning
MAR 28, 2014
Series of tubes

Make intermittent internet access normal

Jeff Gerlach

The digital divide need not turn your classroom into a case of have/have-nots

Blended Learning
MAR 07, 2014
Snow-covered building

A new snow day ritual: Learn from home!

Jeff Gerlach

Could schools hold classes even when the weather closes down the building?

Blended Learning
FEB 17, 2014

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