The document provides updates on e4TN's online curriculum development and student usage. It discusses that as of April 2011, e4TN had developed 89 total courses, including 28 full and 40 half high school credit courses. It also notes positive student feedback from surveys of over 3,000 students on the clarity of materials, involvement of instructors, and learning. Additionally, it outlines current projects including the development of new middle school math and language arts courses and over 450,000 views of existing practice tests for end-of-course exams on mobile devices.

1. Curriculum Update

2. Current Status:
Courses Developed
(as of 4-13-2011)

3. Courses Developed
• 89 Total Courses Developed
– 28 Full High School Credit Courses
– 40 Half High School Credit Courses
– 21 Recovery and RTI Courses

4. Courses Developed
• All courses are built to Tennessee
Standards and include…
– Full student text; no textbook required
– Full teacher materials/answer keys
– Full set of student assignments
– Full set of diagnostic, formative, and
summative assessments
– Interactive simulations, instructional
games, virtual labs (science), student
self assessments

5. Current Status:
Student Opinion
(Spring 2011 Term at Mid-Term)

6. 3294 Student Survey Responses
received for Spring at mid-term
Spring 2011 Student Surveys Received
by Subject Area

7. Spring 2011 Student Feedback Origins
(as of Mid-term)

8. Spring 2011 Feedback on Materials
Readings and assignments clear…
Helped me learn new skills…
Worthwhile for me to learn…
Subject matter was interesting…
Games/animations interesting…
Learning goals were clear…
Understood what was expected…
3294 Survey Responses

9. Spring 2011 Feedback on Instructors
Instructor quickly answered my
questions
Instructor gave me enough
individual attention
Instructor gave enough guidance to
improve my weaknesses
Instructor was actively involved in
teaching me
3294 Survey Responses

10. Spring 2011 Feedback on Affect
I learned more than I expected to
learn
Some things I learned really made
me think
I participated actively in the class
discussions
What I learned will be helpful to me
in the future
3294 Survey Responses

11. How does e4
TN Defy the Stereotypes of
online Curriculum?
•Online courses are easier than traditional classes.
•Our curriculum is not only designed to be as rigorous
as the most challenging of classrooms, but elicits more
work than is typical from many students due to the
increased responsibility they must take in their own
learning.
•Online courses are a mash of stuff either copied from or
linked to a bunch of different websites.
•Our curriculum is instructionally designed and built as
a coherent whole and does not rely on outside links.
•Online teachers can’t be as involved with students as
teachers in traditional classrooms.
•With curriculum and assignment designs built to
foster and promote student-to-student and teacher-to-
student interaction, many students experience more
interaction and attention from the teacher and their
peers than they do in traditional classrooms.

12. Current Status:
No-Cost Personal Finance
Distribution

13. as of 4-13-2011

14. Just Released:
TCAP
Language Arts & Math
Review Modules
(6th
, 7th
, & 8th
Grades)

15. TCAP Review Site:
In the first 11 days after release, there were
13,154 unique page views
of e4
TN’s TCAP review site. TCAP Reviews
were released on April 1, 2001.

16. Additional visits from users in: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Texas.

17. Math 6, 7, and 8 TCAP Reviews
6,387 total user views;
4,233 unique user views
https://www.e4tn.org/home/tcap/math

18. Language Arts 6, 7, and 8 TCAP
Reviews
2,088 total user views;
1,220 unique user views
https://www.e4tn.org/home/tcap/languagearts

19. Just Released:
Algebra 2 EOC
Interactive Mobile Practice Test

20. Joins the List of Available
e4
TN Interactive Mobile EOC Practice Tests
•Algebra 1 EOC Practice
•Algebra 2 EOC Practice
•Biology EOC Practice
•English 1 EOC Practice
•English 2 EOC Practice
•US History EOC Practice

21. Mobile EOC Practice Tests
Total Usage:
• 449,206 total page views
• 21,071 unique page views
– Algebra 1 EOC Practice: 102,124 Total Views (2,085 Unique)
– Biology EOC Practice: 89,119 Total Views (1,297 Unique)
– English 2 EOC Practice: 59,338 Total Views (978 Unique)
– English 1 EOC Practice: 37,181 Total Views (817 Unique)
– US History EOC Practice: 34,847 Total Views (610 Unique)
– Algebra 2 EOC Practice: 15,889 Total Views (371 Unique)*
* Algebra 2 EOC data accumulated in first 11 days of release
(From 4-12-10 to 4-12-11)

22. Mobile EOC Practice Tests
•Have been accessed by users in over 173
cities and towns in 30 states
•Includes instructional feedback and
explanations for each practice item
•Provides statistics about user’s success in
each Standards Area in order to
recommend focused review in areas of
weaknesses

23. Current Projects:
Middle School
Math and Language Arts Courses,
Grades 6, 7, and 8

24. Development
• 6 Simultaneously
developed courses
involving 2 teams of Subject
Matter Experts (SMEs) and
Instructional Designers
(IDs).
•SME content writing
contributed by Wilson
County Department of Ed.
•ID effective online learning
design contributed by e4
TN
•Artwork and programming
contributed by e4
TN

25. Instructional Design
•Follows Gagne’s 9 Events of Learning at
Unit and Lesson levels
•Heavily scaffolded through chunked
content with multiple levels of student
self-assessments and imbedded literacy
supports
•Provides diagnostic pre-assessments,
formative assessments, and summative
assessments to inform instruction.
•Built to fully meet the newest Tennessee
Standards for each subject area/grade
combination.
•Highly interactive with practice and
performance activities designed to build
21st
Century skills