National Conversation on the Quality of Online Learning in K-12 Education

Conversations on Quality was a national conversation on the quality of online learning in K-12 education. The conversations hosted by MIT and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (a) explored a range of critical dimensions including: learning outcomes, deep learning, accelerated learning, learning access/success of underrepresented students, more flexible learning, and relevance and quality of learning; and (b) furthered understanding of how participants can leverage and learn from each other’s successes and challenges, and how to realize greater goals for online/blended through collaboration and synergistic interaction of participants’ practice and research.