University of Alaska Southeast, Dual Enrollment and Career Pathways in High Schools!

Let’s face it; many high school faculty members are overloaded with teaching core courses, so the thought of adding new curricula often brings a cringe to their faces and the beginnings of a migraine headache. What if high schools could offer new and exciting coursework without the cringing or the headaches? What if high school faculty didn’t even need to teach the content? What if all the resources (lectures, reading assignments, exams, etc.) were already available? What if students could take courses for both high school and college credit? What if it didn’t cost students money?

In spring 2017, the UAS Fisheries Technology program reinvented a way to offer courses that are:

1. Engaging and technology-based,
2. Use the latest educational pedagogy, and
3. Can be delivered directly into the high school classroom with no internet required.

These courses were initially created for distribution on university supplied Apple iPads, but have since been finding their ways into many high schools throughout the state. Imagine “beaming” a college instructor directly into a high school classroom where the on-site high school faculty member is doing little more than facilitating progress through the course and fostering discussion points.

Read the full article here.

Source: Association of Alaska School Boards