A 50 member non-partisan group of top education minds from around the US, known as the Digital Learning Council, recently formed to help marry innovative technology and techniques in to public education. On Wednesday, headed by former Governors Jeb Bush and Bob Wise, the group announced their plan to move their objective forward.

The Digital Learning Council will “create a set of best practices that would cover a range of digital learning issues, including: online and virtual schools, classroom technology, equity, security and privacy, and digital content,” noted a blog post from EdReformer. The second phase of this plan will encourage states to adopt these new and innovative technologies to help push education to the next level.

Online learning is one of the fastest growing segments in education today. Companies such as K12 Inc and Apex Learning have been in the forefront of this type of technology based education. K12’s online public school program offers a high quality curriculum using online lessons and hands-on education materials for kindergarten through high school students. Apex Learning provides digital curriculum for secondary education to school districts using comprehensive, standards-based online courses to help schools engage students in coursework.

Check here to read the Digital Learning Council’s full release.

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