by James Call, the Florida Current
Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford may have been a day earlier than the agenda but on Thursday he proposed a big hairy audacious goal for education at the Florida Leaders Summit. He wants the state to assume national leadership in on-line education. “Starting with preK-12 through higher education we should be the state that everyone looks to and says ‘Wow, what’s Florida doing? It’s really exciting and it looks like they figured out this online learning thing,’” Weatherford said to summit participants. Weatherford participated in a discussion with Miami University President Donna Shalala and Daphne Koller, a professor in the Stanford School of Engineering. The three talked about how technology is changing the way people learn and can free up teachers’ time, create value for institutions and provide more opportunities for people seeking a higher education.
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