Educate Online (online distance learning, no games)

Educate Online delivers online SES instruction in English and mathematics to middle school learners. When a student enrolls, a new PC is sent to the student’s home. The student uses this PC to access online instructional sessions with live instructors any time of the day or night. A diagnostic assessment is used to plan and customize the curriculum delivered to students, who then progress at their own pace to complete the planned activities, always under the direct supervision of an instructor. Under the Star Schools project, Educate Online is creating the system software that will enable wireless connections via mobile laptops; building new curriculum modules for both English and mathematics; creating and testing new items for its assessment database; and creating new instructional materials for English Language Learners (ELL students).

Targeted Teachers: Middle school teachers of SES instruction in English and mathematics (Educate Online will demonstrate math curriculum)