Rethinking the Textbook: Digital Curriculum in the Brick-and-Mortar Classroom

Digital curriculum has successfully powered virtual and alternative learning programs for years, but how does it fit into the mainstream classroom? In our session from ISTE 2021, we discuss how Edmentum Courseware enables teachers to customize instruction and empower students to take ownership of their learning, while spending less time grading and planning.

You can find presentation slides discussed in the video here.

Looking for more resources on how to implement digital curriculum in the mainstream classroom? Take a look at these blogs:  

6 Reasons to Use Digital Curriculum as Your Core Instructional Resource

Digital curriculum often served as a supplemental educational tool prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Suddenly, that use shifted to mainstream classrooms across the country in 2020 as online instruction became a staple format of remote learning. Let’s take the best lessons that we learned from widespread virtual learning to understand how students and teachers can benefit from using digital curriculum as a core instructional resource.

How Courseware Can Help Your Flipped Classroom

The traditional method of learning—direct instruction in the classroom with take-home practice for homework—is evolving into more flexible blended-learning approaches, like the flipped classroom method, that uses technology to empower students to learn at their own pace from anywhere. Discover how you can successfully implement the flipped classroom method so that you are spending more time helping students apply content and less time delivering direct instruction.

How to Implement a Flex Classroom Model Using Courseware

One way to encourage student engagement is to foster a flexible learning environment where students have agency over what they’re learning and the pace at which they’re learning it. Learn more about how the flex classroom model helps facilitate both instruction and application in the classroom by using flexible scheduling and a digital curriculum as a core instructional tool. 

5 Ways Courseware Supports Competency-Based Instruction

Competency-based learning allows students to flexibly learn at their own pace and continue forward only when they can successfully show they have mastered academic content, regardless of when and where they learn. Find why implementing competency-based instruction in your classroom can help students receive the content they need at he personalized pace that’s right for them.    

To learn more about how Edmentum’s digital curriculum can help expand course options at your school or district, check out our full course catalog!