Leading educators, government officials and school administrators learned that sometimes schools can get a lot more than they pay for while increasing student success. In fact, sometimes they don’t even have to pay.
Leading educators, government officials and school administrators learned that sometimes schools can get a lot more than they pay for while increasing student success. In fact, sometimes they don’t even have to pay.
The Minnesota Government Training Services department selected Ellen Paxton, MEd, National Board Certified Teacher, and founder of http://professionallearningboard.com [Professional Learning Board™] as a speaker for its Minnesota 2006 E-learning Summit. The biannual conference attracts K-20 teachers, school technology staff, government officials and administrators from across the state to learn from leaders in the field of online learning.
The business world is increasingly integrating open source, computer programs which are written by individuals and groups of computer programmers dedicated to free software. These same business programs have applications within education. Ms. Paxton shared with a room full of education and technology teachers and administrators how Professional Learning Board uses free and low-cost open source computer programs and options available to schools to increase student performance.
From live homework help lines to online virtual classrooms, schools no longer have to pay for rich, interactive and high quality online learning software. Schools also benefit from worldwide consortia of computer programmers continually building and supporting the software without costly service contracts and per student licensing agreements.
About Professional Learning Board™
Professional Learning Board is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded by Ellen Paxton, MEd, NBCT, the company provides online continuing education courses, resources, software, consulting and custom course and systems development services to PK-20 public and private schools and teachers.
