The Promise and the Reality: Exploring Virtual Schooling in Rural Juristictions
The Promise and the Reality: Exploring Virtual Schooling in Rural Juristictions
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承诺与现实：探索农村地区的虚拟学校教育
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2011
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M. Barbour
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M. Barbour
K-12级别的在线学习的历史几乎和它在中学后级别的历史一样长，第一个虚拟学校项目始于20世纪90年代初。虽然这些机会旨在为农村学生提供参加更专业课程的机会，但随着机会被组织到虚拟学校或网络学校，这些机构所服务的学生的性质已经扩大。与一般的在线学习不同，人们对虚拟学校的了解要少得多--更少的是基于系统研究的。无论如何，虚拟学校的发展和实践已经远远超过了可靠和有效的研究成果。本文将重点描述加拿大和美国K-12在线学习的演变，这一演变如何影响农村学校，以及这两个国家的K-12在线学习的经验可以吸取什么教训。
The history of online learning at the K-12 level is almost as long as its history at the post-secondary level, with the first virtual school programs beginning in the early 1990s. While these opportunities were designed as a way to provide rural students with access to more specialized courses, as opportunities have become organized into virtual or cyber schools the nature of students served by these institutions have broadened. Unlike online learning in general, much less is known about virtual schooling - even less of which is based on systematic research. Regardless, the growth and practice of virtual schooling has far out-paced the production of reliable and valid research. This paper will focus upon describing the evolution of K-12 online learning in Canada and the United States, how that evolution has impacted rural schools, and what lessons can be learned from the experiences with K-12 online learning in these two countries.