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Virtual
Learning?
Research
on Virtual
High Schools
By M. D. Roblyer and Bonnie Elbaum
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Virtual high schools are changing
American secondary
education by allowing access to more and different
learning on demand.
But are they effective? M. D. Roblyer and Bonnie Elbaum
review the
research on these innovative new high schools.
Web Resources
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Virtual
High School (VHS) http://vhs.concord.org
VHS
course catalog http://vhs.concord.org/Pages/Academics-VHS+Catalog+(99-00)
S.
Hsi & R. Tinker. (1997, December). A scalable model
of collaborative
learning: The Virtual High School Consortium. Paper
presented
at CSCL ’97, the International Conference on
Computer-Supported
Collaborative Learning, Toronto, Canada. Available: www.concord.org/library/model.htm
R. Kosma, A. Zucker, & C. Espinoza. (1998, October). An evaluation
of the Virtual High School after one year of operation. Arlington, VA: SRI
International. Available: http:/vhs.concord.org/Pages/About+Us-Project+Evaluation
Elbaum,
B. (1998, Winter). Is the Virtual High School
“educational
reform?” @Concord.org, Newsletter of the Concord
Consortium
[Online serial], 10. Available: www.concord.org/library/newsletter.html
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M. D. Roblyer (mroblyer@westga.edu),
L&L’s Research Windows editor and
chair of
ISTE’s publications committee, is currently a
professor
of educational technology at the University of West
Georgia.
She has been an educator, researcher, and author in
educational
technology for 25 years. Her work includes
Integrating
Technology Across the Curriculum (Prentice
Hall/Merrill,
1998), a technology lesson plan database based on
ISTE publications;
Assessing the Impact of Computer-Based
Instruction
(Haworth, 1988); and Integrating Educational
Technology
into Teaching (Prentice Hall/Merrill,
2000).
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Bonnie Elbaum (bonnie@concord.org) is a consultant for the Virtual High School (VHS) and has worked
for that project since its inception in 1996. Her various responsibilities
include research, writing, evaluation, and administrative work for VHS.
Bonnie graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, in
1996, where she undertook a project-based concentration in the natural
sciences. Bonnie telecommutes to VHS from her home in New Jersey. Visit
her home page at www.concord.org/~bonnie.
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Society for Technology in Education).
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