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Tables of Contents for The Virtual High School
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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