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Checklist of Top 10 Benchmarks for Instructional Materials
Tactics

Checklist of Top 10 Benchmarks for Instructional Materials

How do you know you have quality digital learning content? This question could be made incredibly complex, but luckily people in-the-know have given ten simple guidelines

The LC Staff

We Need New Words for Digital Curriculum
Ideas

We Need New Words for Digital Curriculum

Digital Curriculum is a lot of things, but what it has yet to achieve is an agreed-upon set of words describing what it is and does to give it more context of what’s happening with it in schools today

LeiLani Cauthen

Educating for the Design Economy
Design

Educating for the Design Economy

Educating for the Design Economy Last year I spoke to a crowd of about 1400 instructional technologists from the greater Shelby County area schools during a tech conference in Memphis. The t...

Leilani Cauthen

What's So Hard About Choosing Digital Curriculum?
Thoughts

What's So Hard About Choosing Digital Curriculum?

What’s so hard about choosing digital curriculum, you say? Time. 1. Time it takes to choose. 2. Time it takes to trial. 3. Time it takes to see if it works. Time is money, folks. So all ...

The LC Staff

Amazon Has the Most Education Apps
Research

Amazon Has the Most Education Apps

A look at the App Universe across Microsoft Windows, Amazon, Google Android and Apple's iTunes

The LC Staff

Health Care Curriculum Guide
Ideas

Health Care Curriculum Guide

Recently the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), Association of American Publishers (AAP), and the Associati...

The LC Staff

Featured Papers

The Learning Counsel presents journals, papers and briefs on critical topics in Digital Education.

Most will require registration in order to access them, but they are all free.

Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
K12 human resources are crucial to utilizing the cloud successfully. Roles and responsibilities have all changed dramatically since the start of the pandemic, and a new trend to move to core co...
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
Today’s learning environments have changed markedly from just a couple years ago, prior to the pandemic. Tech devices are comprehensively in both the student and teacher hands, but are they missin...
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
Most administrators know there are still gaps remaining in their school or district’s digital transition. Recent studies including the 2021 Digital Transition Surveys for Administrators and Teache...
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
How come digital processes seem easier but are often harder to manage? A major shift to digital teaching and learning in schools has developed an additional digital traffic load for teachers and f...
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Seeing the Levels of Chaos Helps Anchor Bringing Order Schools and districts that recently lost 4 percent of students to alternatives continued to lose students in 2021 at an accelerated pace (no...
Hybrid Logistics Security
Your district is a brand, and your network security helps power its reputation. With the accelerated move to hybrid learning environments over the past year, school districts across the nation are...