Dr. Francisco Hernandez
Vice-Chancellor for Students
University of Hawai‘i Mānoa
fjh@hawaii.edu

Reasons for online
courses

Access to a great education for all
Hawaii’s kids

17 years from now, what will we
tell our children?

Hawaiʻi 8th graders scoring at or above
“proficient” on the national assessment exam
in math:

Hawaiʻi 8th graders scoring at or above
“proficient” on the national assessment exam
in math:
18%

Hawaiʻi 8th graders scoring at or above
“proficient” on the national assessment exam
in math:
18%
Low-income 8th graders:

Hawaiʻi 8th graders scoring at or above
“proficient” on the national assessment exam
in math:
18%
Low-income 8th graders:
7%

Hawaiʻi 8th graders scoring at or above
“proficient” on the national assessment exam
in math:
18%
Low-income 8th graders:
7%
Measuring Up 2006

They will ask us.

equity & access for all
Hawaii’s kids

College Prep

21st Century Skills

21st Century Skills
• Global Awareness - Access to Experts around the World
• Entrepreneurial Literacy - financial, economic, business
• Civic Literacy - Community Mentors
• Creativity & Innovation - Tomorrowʼs Business Leaders are Innovators
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving - Informative Assessment
• Communication & Collaboration - Motivating Learning Community
• Information, Media, ICT Literacy - PBL
• Flexibility & Adaptability
• Initiative & Self-Direction (online fosters this)
• Social & Cross-Cultural Skills
• Productivity & Accountability (online fosters this)
• Leadership & Responsibility

21st Century Skills

Global Collaboration

Global Collaboration

online tutoring:
communication &
collaboration

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Engaging Online
Content

Global Awareness

Online learning has already
transformed instruction where the
alternative has been nothing at all.
Christensen, Horn, & Johnson “Disrupting Class”

Disruptive innovation requires
targeting not those courses that the
public schools want to teach in-house.
They must instead focus on courses
that the public schools would be
relieved not to have to teach, but do
feel the need to offer. Christensen, Horn, & Johnson
“Disrupting Class”

anytime, anyone, any PLACE

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