Some notes from one of the sessions that I attended that actually spoke to some of the research aspects of virtual schooling.
Landscape of K-12 Online Learning: Past and Present – Tom Clark and Cathy Cavanaugh
-K-12 Online learning: education in which instruction and content are delivered primarily via the Internet (Watson, Winograd & Kalmon, 2004)
-Growth of K-12 Online Learning
-steady enrollment growth, from 40-50K in 2000-01 to 300K in 2002-03
-considerable room for growth in KL-12 – 1.97 million OLL enrollments in higher education 2002-03
-better tracking needed of enrollments, course, programs
-K-12 Online Learning Growth Factors
-a tradition of distance education/computer-based ed
-emergence of the WWW
-computer and Internet access/use in schools
-government policies and funding
-interest in OLL
-Global Reach of K-12 Online Learning
-primarily a North American phenomenon, but potential for expansion
-most nations currently focused on building SchoolNet activities
-Research in K-12 DL: How Much Can There Be?
-Cavanaugh, 2001
-Cavanaugh et al., 2004
-NCREL studies
In the next day or two, I’ll have a re-post from the AECT BlogTrack, and then I’ll come back to the content of Opening the Virtual School Symposium .
Tags: VSS2006 , virtual school , cyber school , high school , education
Teaching Online.
Okay, still cleaning up my Bloglines account with this topic. I should also note that one of the participants in our AECT BlogTrack has her focus upon teaching online in the post-secondary environment (see Ernise Singleton – Higher Education ).
- Reducing the Online Instructor’s Workload – Rick Sheridan, Educause Quarterly from Online Learning Update
- Online Teaching from Teaching and Developing Online
- Taking time to teach how to learn online – Christel Broady, Embanet from Online Learning Update
- A Review of Research on Teaching Courses Online from Teaching and Developing Online
- Teaching Online from Cognitive Dissonance Tags: virtual school , cyber school , high school , education