IBIS
Capital forecasts 15-fold growth in the eLearning market over the next decade
and Sibling Group Holdings hasn’t wasted any time getting in on the
opportunity. Earlier this year Sibling acquired Blended Schools Network (BSN),
which provides benchmark online curriculum for K-12 schools, including
professional development for teachers, complete course authoring tools, and
learning management system (LMS) administration and support.
BSN offers
212 different online courses and last year served more than 160 school
districts with more than 300,000 course enrollments last year. Among those
school districts is the Shenandoah Valley School District located in
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. The Republican Herald recently published an article
entitled, “Shenandoah Valley Virtual Academy provides learning with and without
walls,” discussing the various opportunities blended learning provides for
learning outside the classroom and noting BSN’s anchored presence in the
district.
“The
academy has its roots in the district’s participation with the Blended Schools
Network, which is a consortium of more than 200 Pennsylvania schools,” cites
the article. “The network has coursework designed by accredited teachers and
follows the guidelines of Pennsylvania academic standards.”
As the
article further details, the Shenandoah Valley School District believes that
learning should be free from brick-and-mortar confines for a set period of
hours and that learning opportunities should be available at all times and in a
variety of ways.
Blended
and virtual learning models provide this opportunity without eliminating
teacher-student interaction or diluting the quality and accountability of
traditional classroom learning. In fact, the model for blended and virtual
learning is not unlike online or distance learning college courses, which have
been offered for more than 10 years.
Modern
technology has enabled the creation of entire virtual schools and academies,
enabling students to work from home and still have valuable contact with teachers
via email or in-person. Some students never set foot in a classroom while
students in blended schools come in for certain periods of the day.
“There are
full-time virtual students who don’t come here,” district Secondary Principal
Phillip Andras is quoted as saying in the article. “It’s just like a charter
school. However, the benefit of taking virtual classes in a brick-and-mortar
school setting is that whereas some virtual schools doing everything through
e-mail or some kind of account like that, we have teachers here (and) they can
meet face-to-face at any given time. We provide that flexibility.”
To read
the article in its entirety, visit
http://m.republicanherald.com/news/shenandoah-valley-virtual-academy-provides-learning-with-and-without-walls-1.1770576
As is the
case with the Shenandoah Valley School Districts, many school districts are
looking for dynamic solutions to provide high-quality learning opportunities to
enhance student performance. Pioneering the evolution of today’s traditional
education system, Sibling focuses on three key segments of the growing
industry:
• Educational Technology (“Ed-tech”)
• Education Management
• Curriculum design and development
Sibling’s
goal is to secure its position as a leader in education transformation creating
high-quality lifelong learning options for the global marketplace. As part of
this plan, the company recently entered into a partnership with LoudCloud, a
behavioral analytics-based teaching and learning ecosystem, to enhance student
access to its BSN content. The agreement extends BSN’s online, blended and
competency-based learning to students via the LoudCloud learning management
system.
For more
information on SIBE, visit www.siblinggroup.com
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