What is Digital Learning Day?

Digital Learning Day is a culminating event in a year-round national awareness campaign by the Alliance for Excellent Education to improve teaching and learning for all children. MVU supports Digital Learning Day and is a partner in Michigan's year of activities and events celebrating digital learning.

National Campaign
On Digital Learning Day, the national campaign is asking everyone, no matter your comfort with technology – teachers, librarians, school leaders, after school programs, community groups, parents – to sign up and be counted in this effort. There are more than 1.7 million students participating so far!

National Town Hall
Join the feature event of the first-ever Digital Learning Day, the National Town Hall. The town hall will include U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski. Click here to register to watch and participate in this free Skype event, which will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. Feb. 1.

Video Contest
The national campaign wants to hear how digital learning is improving your school and how you celebrated Digital Learning Day. There are categories for teachers, high school, middle school and elementary students. Go to http://www.digitallearningday.org/awards/ to view the categories, directions and rules. Submissions will be due on Friday, March 2.

State Activities and Events
Michigan is celebrating The Year of the Digital Learner, kicking the year off on Feb. 1. Click here for more information on the state's activities and events.

Changing Education. Changing Lives.
Student Testimonials: How online learning helped change the lives of four Michigan Virtual School students.

Kim (3:19)
Kim discovered she was pregnant during the spring of her sophomore year. Instead of dropping out of school, she worked with her high school counselor to complete all her junior and senior years through a seat-time waiver process. She graduated with her class in 2005. (Today Kim is in junior college, working full time and raising a beautiful daughter!)

DaMarco (3:28)
DaMarco was nine credits short at the end of his junior year and was about to lose college scholarship opportunities if he couldn’t graduate on time. (He is now on scholarship to Morgan State University, thanks to MVS partnering with his local school to help meet his need!)

Carley (3:46)
Carley had emergency surgery to remove her right hand in August just before her senior year of high school. Determined to graduate on time, she completed some of her course work online with MVS while healing and in rehab. (She met her goal and currently is a college freshman.)

Carlin (2:46)
Carlin was an aspiring gymnast. Like many elite athletes, her rigorous training schedule conflicted with her face-to-face school schedule. (Online courses with MVS helped her to compete at a national level.) 

What is Digital Learning Day?

Digital Learning Day is a culminating event in a year-round national awareness campaign by the Alliance for Excellent Education to improve teaching and learning for all children. MVU supports Digital Learning Day and is a partner in Michigan's year of activities and events celebrating digital learning.

National Campaign
On Digital Learning Day, the national campaign is asking everyone, no matter your comfort with technology – teachers, librarians, school leaders, after school programs, community groups, parents – to sign up and be counted in this effort. There are more than 1.7 million students participating so far!

National Town Hall
Join the feature event of the first-ever Digital Learning Day, the National Town Hall. The town hall will include U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski. Click here to register to watch and participate in this free Skype event, which will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. Feb. 1.

Video Contest
The national campaign wants to hear how digital learning is improving your school and how you celebrated Digital Learning Day. There are categories for teachers, high school, middle school and elementary students. Go to http://www.digitallearningday.org/awards/ to view the categories, directions and rules. Submissions will be due on Friday, March 2.

State Activities and Events
Michigan is celebrating The Year of the Digital Learner, kicking the year off on Feb. 1. Click here for more information on the state's activities and events.

Changing Education. Changing Lives.
Student Testimonials: How online learning helped change the lives of four Michigan Virtual School students.

Kim (3:19)
Kim discovered she was pregnant during the spring of her sophomore year. Instead of dropping out of school, she worked with her high school counselor to complete all her junior and senior years through a seat-time waiver process. She graduated with her class in 2005. (Today Kim is in junior college, working full time and raising a beautiful daughter!)

DaMarco (3:28)
DaMarco was nine credits short at the end of his junior year and was about to lose college scholarship opportunities if he couldn’t graduate on time. (He is now on scholarship to Morgan State University, thanks to MVS partnering with his local school to help meet his need!)

Carley (3:46)
Carley had emergency surgery to remove her right hand in August just before her senior year of high school. Determined to graduate on time, she completed some of her course work online with MVS while healing and in rehab. (She met her goal and currently is a college freshman.)

Carlin (2:46)
Carlin was an aspiring gymnast. Like many elite athletes, her rigorous training schedule conflicted with her face-to-face school schedule. (Online courses with MVS helped her to compete at a national level.)