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

3. Reasons for online
courses

6. Access to a great education for all
Hawaii’s kids

7. 17 years from now, what will we
tell our children?

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

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

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

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

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

14. They will ask us.

15. equity & access for all
Hawaii’s kids

16. College Prep

17. 21st Century Skills

18. 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

19. 21st Century Skills

20. Global Collaboration

21. Global Collaboration

22. online tutoring:
communication &
collaboration

23. .

24. Engaging Online
Content

25. Global Awareness

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

27. 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”

28. anytime, anyone, any PLACE

29. ola@hawaii.edu