Guest Commentary: EdWeek on Virtual Education's Accountability Movement

Ian Quillen follows virtual education  for Education Week and contributes to EdWeek's Digital Education blog. He's been attending the International Association of K-12 Online Learning symposium this week.
One of the issues he wrote about is the "shift toward emphasizing accountability and transparency" in online learning programs.
According to Quillen, authors and sponsors of this year's  Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning report say the focus on accountability of online learning "should be embraced, not feared."
"When these programs started, they started out of a point of pain. As a result, there wasn't a lot of measurability or a lot of accountability. I think that's changed a lot, and the report reflects that, Quillen quotes Andy Scantland, the vice president of sales and marketing for Advanced Academics Inc., the Oklahoma City-based provider of public and private online programs, and a sponsor of the report from the Evergreen Group of Durango, Colo., as saying.
Click here to read Quillen's complete blog post.