NACOL Announces Next Webinar: ‘An Introduction to Online Surveying Data Collection for Virtual Schools’

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 /EMWNews/ -- The North American

Council for Online Learning (NACOL) is pleased to announce the next webinar

in its monthly professional development series, "An Introduction to Online

Surveying Data Collection for Virtual Schools" on Wednesday, August 13,

2008; 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. (Eastern).



    



    This session will cover survey basics and how survey data are being

used in virtual and traditional schools to improve performance and make

changes. The webinar will introduce online survey frameworks available

today and share best practices. Participants will be asked to participate

in a pre-session survey and will receive an informational sheet with tips,

tricks and links as a follow-up to the session.



    According to Susan Patrick, President and CEO of NACOL, "Using data to

improve management and instruction is important for any educational

institution. Virtual schools are leading with collection and analysis of

data to provide real process improvements that result in enhanced K-12

teaching, student support and learning."



    This webinar will feature Erik Black, University of Florida.



    Registration is open to members and non-members until 2 PM (ET)

Tuesday, August 12, 2008.



    To register: http://www.nacol.org/events/webinar/index.php.

    About NACOL



    The North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) is an

international K-12 non-profit association advocating online learning to

increase access to high quality education and represents the interests of

educational stakeholders, providers and students worldwide (http://www.nacol.org).

NACOL is the host of the Virtual School Symposium, October 26-28, 2008 in

Phoenix, AZ (http://www.virtualschoolsymposium.org).