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.
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Iowa Learning Online IACON Conference Handout
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