Kirkwood High School Distance Learning

12/08/2021

Looking for an online high school credit course? Kirkwood offers Transfer Credits for your High School. Contact us for more information!

High School Completion Programs
Website: www.kirkwood.edu/hsdl
Phone: 319-784-1517
Email: [email protected]

01/09/2019

School districts and educators, we want to hear from you!

In 2008, online and blended learning gurus Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn predicted in their book, Disrupting Class, that by 2019, about HALF of high school courses would be delivered online!

After a follow-up conversation asked by us in January 2019, Horn has shared from his collected data that, conservatively, at least 13 MILLION students experience blended learning during their school day.

So, we want to know: How present is online and blended learning in your high schools? How has this transformed the educational environment for your students?

Discuss with us and colleagues below, and check out our Twitter poll too!

01/04/2019

Have you ever sat down to take a math test and immediately felt your heart beat faster and your palms start to sweat? This is called math anxiety, and if it happens to you, you’re not alone: Researchers think about 20 percent of the population suffers from it. So what’s going on? And can it be f...

04/26/2018

Huge shortages loom in the skilled trades, which require less — and cheaper — training. Should that make students rethink the four-year degree?

12/21/2017

Critical thinking skills are so important. This article says that in the next 15 years, 38% of jobs will be replaced by robots. There are some people out there that believe that this could be much, much, much sooner. Are you preparing yourself for the world where learning is always "on"?

The education industry saw so many notable, significant changes this past year–from an increased focus on augmented reality and other visual technologies to make learning come alive, to the “Googli…

12/16/2017

So glad that we could be a part of helping people graduate from this program.

12/04/2017

Online learning may be different than F2F, but that doesn't mean it's better or worse - just different.

Many students and higher education professionals continue to misunderstand the benefits and realities of online learning.

06/01/2017

What does your version of success look like?

05/24/2017

We often forget that students need time to reflect in order to be in control of their learning.

In his book, The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg describes keystone habits as,“small changes or habits that people introduce into their routines that unintentionally carry over into other aspects of their lives." Reflection has been one

01/26/2017

Live video coming up.

01/12/2017

Kirkwood High School Distance Learning will be presenting at the Iowa Adult Education and Literacy Virtual Conference on January 24th.

Skills transform lives and drive economies; better skills means better jobs and higher pay. Digital literacy is a skill ALL students in adult education would benefit from mastering. Having the ability to submit job applications online, monitor children's school grades, and enrolling in post-secondary education are competencies we educators and community leaders can influence by incorporating digital literacy into our programs, instruction, and conversations.

Join us for the Expanding Possibilities: Adult Education and Virtual Conference January 24-January 26th to learn more about incorporating digital literacy into adult education. http://yourfuturestartshereiowa.org/virtual-training1/

01/06/2017

For all you impacted by the new WIOA laws.

National Skills Coalition is a broad-based coalition working toward a vision of an America that grows its economy by investing in its people so that every worker and every industry has the skills to compete and prosper.