By Nichole Dobo, Hechinger Report
The Pennsylvania Department of Education recently approved an online program “endorsement” for educators – a credential that “documents knowledge in new and emerging areas where formal certification does not exist,” according to a June 2014 report from the department. The new course at the University of Pennsylvania will offer teachers instruction, from a practitioners’ perspective, on how to work in a blended learning-style instruction model. The virtual online teaching, known by the acronym VOLT, will include three modules: teaching and learning, communicating and literacy. The unifying thread is that the course will help teachers learn to do these things in an online environment.
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