These A for -profit schools are in the business of education. Specialize in providing complete programs for students who are home-schooledįull-time due to such factors as parent choice, religious needs, geographic In contrast, private and charter virtual schools Of Quebec, develops web-based courses for use by private and school district SOFAD ( Société de formation à distance des commissions scolaires du Québec), a consortium based in the province CDLI and OpenSchoolBCĪre examples of publicly-funded virtual schools. Schools are usually publicly-funded and do not charge students for enrollment. School district, provincial, and consortia virtual Web-based courses not available in their school. Majority of their courses and can enroll in Learning and Innovation (CDLI), students attend traditional schools for the
In the Newfoundland context, where K-12 distanceĮducation falls under the mandate of the provincial Center for Distance Meeting the rest of their requirements in traditional classrooms (Carr & Students usually enroll in only one or two courses, Public school students taking a course or two from an on-line school during Schools, it appears that A most virtual school students are regularly enrolled 6)īased on enrollments reported by leading virtual Takes place at all levels (i.e., college, university, adult education,Įlementary and secondary schooling). It is an optional enhancement to a school = s regular,įace-to-face programming for access and choice purposes. The same criteria identified above, but the program is more limited in scope Setting other than that of a teacher and instruction that may be synchronous Teacher electronic delivery to students who are at home or in a physical A virtual school is characterized by: a structured learningĮnvironment wherein the program is under the complete supervision of a Through electronic means (i.e., computer-mediated and on-line via the One that offers the mandated provincial instructional program to students Virtual schools and schooling in a similar manner through the following Where students use online computers in classrooms or labs for some of their To enter a school building to A conventional schools The teacher and student never meet, and there is no requirement for a student Might be placed on a scale of face-to-face contact between teachers and Russell (2004) categorizes virtual schools A by imagining where they
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Series of technological innovations, and that they can be betterĬharacterized by the types of possible teacher-student interactions.
Suggests that virtual schools are more than the use of online computers and a Some or all of the student = s education (Russell, 2004, p. (Aronson & Timms, 2002 Russell, 2004) and A canīe understood as a form of schooling that uses online computers to provide Related to the impact of virtual schools and schooling on teaching andįrom the historical perspective of technologicalĭevelopment, virtual schools are a contemporary form or variant of distance education The paper also synthesizes some of the literature Schooling are defined and described and some of the factors enabling their Schools and schooling in a Canadian context. Of this paper is to present a descriptive review of the literature on virtual This is already proven and learning is being transformed in new and powerful Schools can deliver on-line education to students. The former Director of Policy and Projects for the Canadian School Boards'Īssociation, there is no longer a need to question whether or not virtual Is the more common situation in the province of Newfoundland Participation in virtual schooling as a supplement to traditional schooling Implies that a student is attending a traditional or conventionalįace-to-face school and supplementing course offerings with virtual classes
Solely from an on-line organization to participate in virtual schooling To attendĪ virtual school implies that a student is taking a complete curriculum On-line students through web-based classrooms - exist in all provinces inĢ004) and most states in the United States (Cavanaugh, 2004). organizations that offer provincial or state curriculum programs to
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