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Resource List for Virtual High Schools

Online Articles:

Virtual High Schools: The High Schools of the Future?
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr119.shtml
An article by Glori Chaika in Education World profiling different examples of virtual high schools, including the Florida High School.

Virtual High, Real Opportunity
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,31983,00.html
A news article looking at different virtual high schools.

A List of Research and Conference Papers by Robert F. Tinker, Founder and President of the Concord Consortium
http://www.concord.org/pubs/papers.html

The Concord Consortium has a list of in-depth papers concerning the development of online learning environments, including:

  1. A Scalable Model of Collaborative Learning: The Virtual High School Cooperative, by Sherry Hsi and Robert Tinker.
    http://www.concord.org/pubs/model.html
    This paper describes an experimental model of collaborative Web-teaching using netseminars to train.
  2. A Review of Secondary Netcourses and Virtual Schools, by co-authors Bonnie Elbaum and Robert Tinker.
    http://www.concord.org/pubs/review.html
    This paper reviews different virtual high school models.
The Virtual High School: Case Studies
http://www.vhs.ucsc.edu/vhs/casestudies.htm
Short list profiling virtual high school models as case studies.

revised 4/19/00

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