Online Schools and Online Learning Updates #11
News and analysis from the online learning community
👋 Hello and welcome. Here's a round-up of stories from the online schools and online learning community over the last couple of weeks 📰 with analysis at the bottom. Here we go 👇
News and Annoucements
⭐ Minerva's Virtual Academy is hosting a open event for athletes on October 3rd by Fabian Spiess🏅
⭐ HTS Global Online Campus, Plassroom, and Prisma are now included in the Online Learning Guide 🔍
⭐EqualEd, by Riz Ahmed, is looking for volunteer teachers 💻
⭐ The Online School is now part of the Virgin StartUp accelerator and Gaia Learning has secured a place on the 2023 Accelerator by Baltic Ventures 💨
⭐ Jorge Sánchez Hernández has opened the second cohort for The Journey 🗺 and CATALYST by Winchester College has remaining places for its learning cohort for 10-13 years running over October half term 🧪
⭐ Paul Bacsich welcomes submissions on virtual schools for the Education Sciences MDPI journal 📔
⭐ Crimson Global Academy (CGA) Online Careers Fair. CGA is running a week-long series of talks from 9th - 15th October 🌍
⭐ Admissions are open for Highgrove Education, the new online school by Heather Rhodes 🚀
⭐ For edtech investment opportunities, take a look at the TutorHive pitch video by Rushab Shah 📹
⭐ Digital Learning CPD event for teachers 📱🏫 on Wednesday, November 8th 🗓 at St George's School, Windsor (SL4 1QF) 🏫 It’s free and places are limited. Hosted by Richard Wilson 👨🏫
⭐ We now have over 450 members in the Online Schools LinkedIn group so thank you! If you haven't already, please do join and introduce yourself under the pinned post in the group.
Analysis
Whilst the sector is still viewed by many people I speak to as small and niche, it is highly active. One area which interests me at the moment, is the online extra curricular or enrichment space. This is an exciting way for pupils (and parents) to access project based learning which fits alongside their day to day school. I can see this area growing.
Do you have any news to share with the community? Please do get in touch with me by connecting on LinkedIn or post a comment and I'll try to include it in the next one.