Ontario Strategic Alliance for eLearning
Winter Conference
January 11-12, 2007
Hamilton, Ontario
THE NEXT 5
PAST
PRESENT
Todd A. Hitchcock
Vice President
Florida Virtual School
FUTURE
Forget What You Know
THAT WAS THEN
A Brief History of Time
1981
1984
1990
2007
1 486 / 3 Pentiums / 7 Laptops / 2 BB’s / 2 Treo’s
Think About It
1984
CAGR
2007
0.17%
27 MPG
26 MPG
41.42%
2 GB
128 KB
41.42%
55,236 MPG
Forget What You Know
THIS IS NOW
National Overview
12 States with state led
programs and state policies
12 States with state led programs and
no significant state policies
Source: Evergreen Consulting and Associates
14 States with significant state led
policies but no state led programs
12 States have neither state-led
programs nor state policies
National Overview
The Pioneers
FLVS Overview
Florida Virtual School
District / School
Global Services
• Performance Based Funding
• School House Operations
• Target Audiences
• Rural
• Low-Performing
• High Minority
• Out-of-State Partnerships
• Content
• Tuition
• Systems
• Training
• ‘Cooperative’ Model
2006-2007 Projections
Successful Completers
*
* 1.0 and 0.5 Credits Not Separated During Initial Years
Demographic Snapshot
Student Completions
Top Courses (2005-2006)
Public & Charter
82%
Life Management Skills
Home School
13%
Personal Fitness
8%
World History
8%
Geometry
6%
Spanish I
4%
Private
5%
Diversity
10%
Caucasian
66%
Economics
4%
Minority
34%
Marine Science
4%
English II
3%
Female
60%
English III
3%
Male
40%
English I
3%
Demographic Snapshot
Staffing
Geography
Geography
Full Time Teachers
304
Alabama
1
Ohio
2
Adjuncts
133
Arizona
1
Rhode Island
1
Support Personal
121
California
1
South Carolina
2
11
Georgia
8
Tennessee
2
569
Indiana
1
Texas
1
Maryland
1
Virginia
2
Michigan
1
Washington
1
Mississippi
1
Wisconsin
1
North Carolina
5
Florida
New Jersey
1
Minnesota
2
Nevada
1
Student Interns
Total
533
AP Score Comparison
FLVS
STATE
Qualify %
Qualify %
AP Art History
57.7%
41.0%
16.7%
56.7%
1.0%
AP Biology
62.5%
45.6%
16.9%
61.1%
1.4%
AP Calculus AB
69.7%
54.4%
15.3%
61.3%
8.4%
AP Computer Science A
94.9%
45.0%
49.9%
59.5%
35.4%
AP Computer Science AB
100.0%
75.8%
24.2%
70.6%
29.4%
AP Eng. Lang. and Composition
56.4%
44.5%
11.9%
50.9%
5.5%
AP Eng. Lit. and Composition
65.6%
51.7%
13.9%
62.1%
3.5%
AP Macroeconomics
55.2%
31.3%
23.9%
53.6%
1.6%
AP Microeconomics
56.8%
38.5%
18.3%
63.2%
-6.4%
AP United States Government and Politics
67.9%
37.8%
30.1%
54.8%
13.1%
AP United States History
36.6%
40.7%
-4.1%
53.1%
-16.5%
* Based on the National AP Exam
Delta
NATIONAL
Delta
Qualify %
TOMORROW
Space Adventures
Forget What You Know
TOP 7 4 THE NEXT 5
#7 Gaming
Always
On
PERFORMANCE
Challenge
Competition
Fun
Relevant
#6 Immediacy
#5 Learning Objects
#4 Prescriptive Learning
Pre - Test
Post-Test
Assess
Deliver
Deliver
Assess
#3 Location Based Learning
#2 Customer Created Content
#1
15 Cent Newspaper
#1
#1
Customer Service
Forget What You Know
THANK YOU!!!
Todd A. Hitchcock
Vice President, Global Services
445 W. Amelia Street Suite 301
Orlando, Florida 32801
e: thitchcock@flvs.net
o: 407.317.3326 ext. 2335
c: 321.662.6924