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"The Power of Digital Learning: Integrating Digital Content,"
CEO Forum on Education and Technology.

http://www.ceoforum.org/downloads/report3.pdf

Date of Study:
2000

Basis of Study:

Third year report of a four-year partnership between business and education leaders who are committed to assessing and monitoring the progress of integrating technology into America's schools.

The Power of Digital Learning: Integrating Digital Content provides:

  • A description of the power and potential of digital learning
  • Steps to ensure greater success in integrating digital content effectively
  • Standards that should be mastered in digital learning environments in order to prepare students with the skills they will need in the 21st century
 
Conclusions:
  • Student learning is enhanced by digital content when it is applied in innovative ways.
  • Schools must increase the access to high quality digital content to ensure that it is integrated into the curriculum.
  • 100 percent of instructional-materials budgets should be available to purchase the most appropriate content to meet educational objectives.
  • School systems must provide the human resource of curriculum specialists and/or teachers to evaluate and integrate digital content into the curriculum.
  • Companies that produce content must collaborate more with teachers and school systems.
  • Government should continue to digitize and make available the vast lode of public-domain information that is valuable to students, researchers, and all citizens.

 

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