OWL Professional Services
Building a world of free and open education for everyone requires real investment and work. The OWL Institute focuses on practical and effective ways to help people and groups succeed in using digital technology for learning and teaching. To help us continue to offer the best in free and open education, OWL offers a number of fee-based services.
OWL Home Education Consulting
Post-industrial education means going beyond same place, same time, same material for teaching and learning. Advances in digital technology are making home and community education easier and more effective. OWL Home Education supports families, teachers, and groups in making the digital revolution work for everyone.
Working closely with clients to define practical goals and effective strategies for achieving them, OWL's consulting and curriculum services assess client's educational resources and opportunities, provide learning profiles, and offer sound, proven methods for achieving lasting success. Dedicated to fostering the love of learning, OWL Home Education helps to build an open world of learning.
Fees: $60/hour (free, initial 30-minute consultation)
OWL Educator
Many organizations lack the internal capacity to benefit from digital technologies for training and education. To address this need, OWL designs academic and vocational courses for schools, communities and businesses.
For schools—Creating, maintaining and expanding computer-based resources for classroom education are difficult goals when faced with schinking budgets. OWL works with teachers to make first-class digital support for classroom instruction quick and easy.
For the community— OWL works with community groups to create high-quality content and portals for learning, communicating and organizing.
For business—OWL Educator can develop and host online training courses to meet the needs of employers, small and big.
Fees:
Basic Course, 8 units ($1,600)
Deluxe Course, 16 units ($3,200)
(non-profit organizations receive 30% discount).
OpenWorldNet
Email Services
In partnership with the ManyOne, Inc., OWL offers competitively priced, commercial-free email. With OWNet, commercial-free email supports the production and maintenance of high-quality free and open educational opportunities for everyone.
OWL Educator: Professional Development
Professional educators often lack the skills and knowledge for the effective use of digital technology. To address this need, OWL provides on-location and in-house training and workshops.
Example 1
Harbor City International School, a charter high-school located in
Duluth, MN, contracts OWL staff to run a series of workshops to train
their teachers in the use of digital technology.Example 2
Tom Wilkens, a high-school social science teacher, walks into the
OWLab, OWL’s community-based research and development laboratory for
using digital technology in education located in Duluth, MN, and
receives assistance in designing and developing computer-based
resources for use in his teaching practice.
Fees:
-Workshops—$200-$1,800, depending on size and duration
-Individual Training
-Classes—$35-$50, per class
Individual training—$60/hour (free, initial 30-minute consultation; project-based education available; OWL members receive 30% discount for classes and individual training.)
OWL Educator: Tutoring & Teaching Services
To assist students and home educators, OWL offers tutoring and teaching services in a variety of subject areas. Tutoring provides assistance for students with their existing curriculum; teaching services provide development and delivery of curriculum to meet the needs of the client.
Example 1
A public high-school student uses the OWL Portal to obtain tutoring assistance.
Example 2
A home schooling parent is unable to provide their child with adaquate
assistance in learning mathematics. To remedy this problem, the parent
contracts with OWL to receive math curriculum development, delivery and
instruction.
Fees:
Tutoring—Free (volunteer-based)
Teaching—$400/per student/per course/per month
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