The Virtual High School,9780807742860

The Virtual High School

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ISBN13: 9780807742860
ISBN10: 0807742864
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher(s): Teachers College Pr
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Summary

This authoritative volume is the first to provide a thorough, detailed account of the virtual high school. Based on a 5-year study conducted by experienced researchers at SRI International, this book answers such questions as: What is the difference between an online and a face-to-face classroom? What is it like to take, or to teach, an online course? Are online courses effective? What are the problems with its use? Will this new technology change the way teaching and learning is done?

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Chris Dede
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Online Learning and Educational Change
1(17)
The Promise (and Problems) of Technology for Educational Change
2(4)
Origins of the Virtual High School
6(4)
Other Online Schools
10(3)
Tinkering Toward Utopia
13(2)
Major Questions That Organize This Book
15(3)
The Virtual High School
18(30)
The Structure of VHS
19(2)
Participating Schools
21(1)
VHS Teachers
22(1)
The Teachers Learning Conference
23(3)
VHS Students
26(1)
The Catalog and the School Calendar
27(1)
Course Credit
28(4)
Site Coordinators
32(1)
VHS Central Staff
33(1)
Technological Infrastructure
34(1)
Evaluation Activities
35(1)
One High School's Experiences with VHS
36(4)
Comparisons of VHS with Other Online Schools
40(5)
Summary and Conclusions
45(3)
The VHS Experience
48(34)
The LearningSpace Environment and an Exemplary VHS NetCourse
49(11)
The Experience in Other VHS NetCourses
60(8)
Comparison of VHS and Face-to-Face Courses
68(4)
What Makes a Good Virtual Course?
72(7)
Experiences in Other Online Programs
79(1)
Conclusions
80(2)
Outcomes of a Virtual School
82(18)
Participants' Satisfaction with VHS
82(2)
Outcomes of Students' Participation in VHS Courses
84(12)
VHS's Impacts on Teachers
96(1)
Outcomes for Administrators and Schools
97(1)
Outcomes for Other Virtual Schools
98(1)
Conclusions
99(1)
Lessons Learned
100(23)
Lessons from VHS
101(8)
Lessons About Virtual Schooling
109(12)
Conclusions
121(2)
The Future of Virtual High Schools
123(24)
Why Virtual Secondary Education Is Growing
124(5)
Potential Barriers to the Growth of Virtual Schooling
129(4)
Approaches to Virtual Schooling
133(4)
What Does the Future Hold?
137(10)
References 147(4)
Index 151(8)
About the Authors 159

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