Colorado Empowered Learning’s Website Keeps Users Current on Blended Learning
April 16 2018 - 08:00AM
Business Wire
Blended learning, named a key digital trend to
watch, combines classroom and digital learning.
Colorado Empowered Learning’s (CEL) website is helping students
and teachers stay informed on blended learning, a teacher-led
instructional strategy that combines classroom and digital
learning. For students, it provides some control over when, where
and at what pace they learn. The method is also expanding equity
and access in K-12 education across all school districts.
At the core of CEL’s mission is Colorado’s Blended Learning
Roadmap. CEL developed the roadmap to articulate the strategic
priorities — on local and statewide levels — that must be addressed
to enable blended learning to thrive in Colorado’s educational
system.
“Our website allows visitors to stay current on information
related to blended learning in Colorado and progress on the
roadmap,” said CEL Executive Director, Troy Lange. “The website is
helping us reach people from the classroom to the Capitol who need
to know about it. We are in the process of scheduling another
stakeholder meeting to build an action plan around the importance
of the roadmap.”
The website also provides a quick snapshot of the 30 school
districts that support the organization’s mission through an
interactive map.
“I’m proud that our technology is not only helping CEL keep
stakeholders informed, but its ease-of-use allows CEL to
concentrate on its mission — supporting school districts with
implementing blended learning,” said Colorado Interactive’s
President and General Manager, Fred Sargeson. “As Troy emphasized,
it’s important for all stakeholders, from the classroom to the
Capitol, to stay current on how technology contributes to equality
in our state’s educational system.”
Another goal for the new website is to develop an authoritative
online presence. CEL is supported through funding by the State of
Colorado, as well as by participating schools and districts. Being
on Colorado.gov’s platform and branded as an Official State Web
Portal reinforces its authority.
CEL turned to Colorado Interactive (CI) and the Statewide
Internet Portal Authority (SIPA) to produce its new website. CI
provides digital government services to state agencies, local
governments and educational entities through a contract with SIPA —
the official internet portal connecting the public with Colorado
government. The partnership’s mission allows government leaders to
focus on delivering on-demand, digital government solutions without
requests for proposals or the use of tax appropriations. The
CI/SIPA partnership has benefited more than 60 special districts
and educational organizations in Colorado.
Eligible government entities in need of free website development
and hosting as well as payment processing through the Colorado.gov
Web portal should contact SIPA.
About Colorado Interactive
Colorado Interactive (CI) is the team behind the official
website of the state of Colorado (http://www.colorado.gov) and is
overseen by the Statewide Internet Portal Authority. The
portal operates through a public-private partnership between the
state and CI to help Colorado government entities web-enable their
services. CI builds, operates, maintains, and markets Colorado.gov
and is part of the digital government firm, NIC (Nasdaq:
EGOV).
About SIPA
Established in 2004 by the Colorado General Assembly,
the Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA) is a
self-funded government organization created to be Colorado's single
most comprehensive delivery channel for electronic government
(eGovernment) services. SIPA strives to accelerate the
adoption of efficient and effective eGovernment services by placing
more online to benefit Colorado residents. In addition to no-cost
websites, payment processing and event registration setup, SIPA
provides SaaS technology solutions, consulting and cyber security
assessments. Please visit www.colorado.gov/sipa.
About NIC
NIC Inc. (Nasdaq: EGOV) is the nation’s premier
provider of innovative digital government solutions and secure
payment processing, which help make government interactions more
accessible for everyone through technology. The family of NIC
companies has developed a library of more than 13,000 digital
government services for more than 6,000 federal, state, and local
government agencies. Among these solutions is the ground-breaking
personal assistant for government, Gov2Go, delivering citizens
personalized reminders and a single platform for all government
interactions. More information is available at www.egov.com.
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