A number of key Iowa organizations are currently working closely together to provide Iowa teachers and students with some exciting new online learning opportunities! This session will do three things: It will provide you with an update of available online high school courses; give you access to a statewide repository of free online lessons, units, and courses; and tell you how you can register for any of the five new professional development courses.
1. Expanding Your Resources
What is ILO? An Iowa Department of Education initiative
Originally, designed to provide schools with more gen-ed courses
Currently, pursuing more resources to help schools with struggling learners
Four Resources:
Provide free, semester-based online courses
o Anatomy o Pre-Calculus
o Physics o American History
o Chemistry o World History
o General Biology o English 9 and 10
o Calculus o American Government
Assist Iowa AP Online Academy provide free courses
o AP Calculus AB o AP English Literature
o AP Chemistry o & Composition
o AP English Language o AP Physics B
o & Composition o AP Statistics
o AP U.S. History
Broker sale of courses for schools
o Algebra I & II o German I & II
o American History o Introduction to English
o American Literature Literature and Composition
o AP Music Theory o Introductory Algebra
o Biology o Physical Education Online
o British and World Literature S-1
o Chemistry o Physical Science
o Chinese I & II o Physics
o Critical Reading and o Pre-calculus
Effective Writing o Reading Skills and
o Earth Science Strategies
o Economics o Skills for Health
o Fundamental Math o Spanish I-IV
o Geography and World o U.S. Government and
Cultures Politics
o Geometry o World History
Assistance to schools while building regional class-sharing consortia
To expand course offerings, stretch budget dollars, and fill up smaller classes
ARRA, EdTech Stimulus Money, $2.7 million
Evan Abbey, Project Manager eabbey@aea11.k12.ia.us
Nancy Movall, Grant Manager nmovall@gwaea.org
Prepare teachers to teach online
Prepare teachers to build online units/courses
Build an online resource sharing repository
Gwen Nagel, Director of ILO Arlan Thorson, ILO School Liaison
Gwen.nagel@iowa.gov athorson@iowalearningonline.org
515.281.7806 515.238.4765