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Curriculum and programs reflect current research & sound pedagogy	Content empowers/engages learners to make meaningful connections
• model skillful teaching; incorporate good instructional design	• promotes on-going inquiry/discovery and active learning
• make connections across disciplines	• connects to learner's experience and concerns; invites learner to shape content
• encourage hands-on, inquiry-based, active learning	• provides opportunities to share one's unique perspectives and products, to be a leader and teacher, and to apply newly-acquired knowledge/understanding in own life
• create social organizations for collaborative learning	• provides choice and variety within an understandable, consistent theme
• interaction is authentic/purposeful w/ authentic outcome (product)	• engaging, meaningful, theme-driven context with skills and key concepts organic to material and an integral (not forced) part of the exploration
• materials are age and developmentally-appropriate and inclusive of all learners
• acknowledge & value learner's personal interpretations and experiences

Deliver content synchronously and asynchronously in a variety of multimedia formats

• Web, real-time discussions/activities, e-mail, electronic bulletin boards, print, CD-ROM, live, interactive TV, video, chromakey, videoconferencing, FAX

• foster connections between multiple media forms

• choose topics that lend themselves to interactivity/visual media

• create activities that have applications across all media types

• make the most of the medium; know its benefits and limits

• visual, audio, and print work together to reinforce concepts

Curriculum and program content align with state and national standards

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