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The Web School
http://www.thewebschool.eu
The Web School is an online british secondary school and college offering academic and vocational courses to young people aged 11 - 19 years old.
The Web School provides a viable alternative for those that cannot or do not want to send their children to a traditional UK based school.
Our resources include virtual classrooms where lessons are delivered by qualified teachers; a parents portal which allows parents to easily monitor their children’s progress and a Learners’ portal with online library, interactive text books, discussion boards, live chat facility, virtual common room & email and brain training games.

MNPS Virtual Learning
http://vlearn.mnps.org
Not a "school," but a Virtual Learning Program attached to Middle College High School in Metro Nashville Public Schools, this online learning program serves full-time students who cannot attend a brick-and-mortar high school, students at those schools who want Advanced Placement classes not offered locally, and students in traditional high schools where a course is not offered or is offered at a time conflicting with their schedules--as well as students in need of credit recovery who cannot schedule the in-house online credit recovery program for some reason
Established in August, 2010, it continues to build toward supporting MNPS's goal to be the first choice for families in Metro Nashville and Davidson County.

A Virtual School in Second Life (Visualisation)
http://vimeo.com/7042260

Virtual School from mark mullis on Vimeo.

Colorado Virtual School
http://www.coloradocalvertacademy.com
Tuition-free Colorado Virtual Elementary School and Colorado Virtual Middle School
The Colorado Calvert Academy learning environment consists of a partnership among students, our faculty, parents, peers, and both academic and technology support teams.
The support of our team empowers your child to reach his or her full academic potential.

Innosight Report on Florida Virtual School
http://bit.ly/4jIuZ3
Innosight Report on Florida Virtual Schoolbr> From its beginnings with a small $200,000 grant in 1997, the Florida Virtual School has grown to serve over 70,000 students a year.
This case study details the policies and decisions that led to this disruptive growth.

Think Academy Virtual School (Hispanic)
http://www.thinkacademy.org
Virtual School (K-12) for spanish speaking people. Internet based.
Courses are delivered over the web and in 3D in Second Life. We are the most advanced virtual school in latinamerica and our technology is the best.

WiZiQ's virtual classroom
http://www.wiziq.com/
WiZiQ's virtual classroom
Use WiZiQ's virtual classroom equipped with live audio-video communication, chat, content sharing, and session recording capabilities.
No download is required since it works with any web browser and on any operating system.
They may seek online help for homework or assignment queries. They can use WiZiQ's virtual classroom to hold live discussions or sessions.

ConnectEd Online Learning Environment
http://portal.nisaiva.com/lea/ConnectEd/default.aspx
ConnectEd Online Learning Environment was established to support those pupils being educated by Cambridgeshire EOTAS.
Using a secure Learning Portal, students can access a virtual classroom, receiving weekly assignments in a range of subjects, as well as being able to take part in live interactive lessons.
ConnectEd currently work with KS3 and KS4 pupils, throughout Cambridgeshire. (England)

Satellite Virtual Schools
http://www.satellitevs.com
Satellite Virtual Schools
Personalised on-line learning for young people with medical needs KS3, GCSE, IGCSE and post-16 courses. UK National Curriculum, all exam boards, exam entries made on behalf of students learning at home.

Virtual High School Conference
http://www.nacol.org/events/vss/
Virtual High School Conference

List of (USA) State-Level Virtual High Schools
http://www.elearners.com/resources/k12-online.asp
List of (USA) State-Level Virtual High Schools

ABCs of the Virtual High School
http://technologysource.org/article/abcs_of_the_virtual_high_school/
ABCs of the Virtual High School

Virtual High School
http://www.govhs.org/
Virtual High School provides collaborative online education and professional development.
Imagine classrooms without walls, where students are able to attend their classes 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Imagine students working cooperatively online with others from a wide variety of ethnicities, backgrounds and geographic locations.
What you are beginning to imagine is the reality of the Virtual High School, a non-profit organization that offers content-rich, credit-bearing high school courses to students across the country and around the world.
The Virtual High School has participating high schools from all over the United States as well as many international schools.

Colorado Online Learning
http://www.col.k12.co.us/
Colorado Online Learning provides affordable, high-quality, standards-based supplemental and full-time online coursework for Colorado schools needing credit retrieval, advanced courses, curriculum enhancements and/or to resolve scheduling conflicts.

Illinois Virtual High School
http://www.ivhs.org
Illinois Virtual High School
The mission of the Illinois Virtual High School is to use new and emerging technologies that expand the boundaries of space and time to provide Illinois students and their teachers with increased equity and access to the highest quality educational opportunities.
The IVHS intends to deliver high-quality courses aligned with the Illinois Learning Standards.

Indiana Virtual High School
http://www.indiana.edu/~scs/hs/highschoolcourses.html
Indiana Virtual High School
The School of Continuing Studies offers more than 100 high school courses through its Independent Study Program. The courses are based on the approved curriculum for Indiana schools, substantially reflecting state Department of Education subject area standards.
They require the equivalent amount of work and carry the same credit as similar courses offered in traditional high school classrooms.
Courses are offered online and by correspondence.

Virtual school hits obstacles (article)
http://tinyurl.com/pd6pm
Virtual school hits obstacles

Briteschool
http://www.briteschool.co.uk/
Briteschool
Briteschool (TM) is a live, online school broadly following the British National Curriculum as a means to help students who may wish to go back into mainstream education at any time, or who wish to go on to do IGCSEs at Briteschool. Briteschool, the British E-school, also aims to cater for students who wish to follow the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, and for those who wish to prepare for the Common Entrance examinations.
As well as being a virtual high school (VHS), Briteschool is a virtual primary school (VPS), and a virtual night school (VNS) ! The first college in the UK to offer virtual synchronous pedagogy to this range of pupils.

The Virtual Institute (UNESCO)
http://www.unesco.org/iiep/eng/training/virtual/virtual.htm
The IIEP Virtual Institute was created to offer training through the use of information and communication technologies. This outreach contributes to building capacity in Member States. And participants benefit from flexible learning opportunities.
Internet-based discussion forums | Distance courses for a specific audience |
UNESCO: IIEP International Institute for Educational Planning

Research on virtual universities
http://www.unesco.org/iiep/eng/focus/elearn/elearn_1.htm
Research on virtual universities from UNESCO: IIEP International Institute for Educational Planning

Brilliant School
http://www.brilliantschools.com
Brilliant School : Virtual School designed for Home Schooling

OpenSchool
http://www.openschool.org.uk/
OpenSchool
Learning Platform VLE Using Open Source Software.

Croydon Digital
http://www.croydondigital.com
Croydon Digital (UK) is a provision for Croydon pupils who are unable to attend school and for whom home tuition is not suitable.
Each pupil has a computer in her/his own home and receives on line tuition and regular contact from the Project Co-ordinators, Online Teachers, Study Support Worker and a Connexions Support Worker. Via their own secure web pages, pupils check their work and messages from tutors and also log in to secure specialist web pages geared to their Individual Learning Plan.
As the provision is primarly geared to Year 11, pupils are encouraged to consider work experience and preparation for college. We are currently seeing the benefits for young people who have particular interests and wish to spend more time on these areas such as IT or History.

ENO-Environment Online is a global virtual school
http://eno.joensuu.fi/
ENO-Environment Online is a global virtual school for environmental awareness where environmental themes are studied through out the school year on a weekly basis.
ENO programme is growing. About 200 schools in 75 countries will take part from August 2005. ENO is an international web school. It is administrated by the city of Joensuu, Finland.

Nepad Launches E-School
http://allafrica.com/stories/200507200907.html
Nepad Launches E-School
President Yoweri Museveni on July 18 2005, launched the first e-school in Africa under the initiative of the New Patnership for African Developed (Nepad) at Bugulumbya Secondary School in Kamuli district.
African leaders, in an effort to bring the continent closer to meeting the Millennium Development Goals decided to build ICT in the whole of Africa targeting 600,000 schools over a 10-year period.
Uganda was chosen among twenty other African countries where a demo e-school project would be launched for a period of twelve months. Musumba said Bugulumbya, which is a rural school as a result of the ICT installation shall undergo a radical transformation, where students will be equipped with the latest information technology innovations.

Sample lessons and demos of online courses
http://www.edutopia.org/onlinelearning/Demonstrations.html
Sample lessons and demos of online courses from some virtual schools

Virtual Schools in the USA
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/schools/default.aspx
A comprehensive searchable database of schools in the USA ... including Virtual Schools.

The MorningStar Academy
http://www.TheMorningStarAcademy.org
K-12 Accredited, Private Christian Online Homeschooling Provider.
Earn your high school diploma online!
Also see
The Grace Academy
http://www.TheGraceAcademy.org
Jubilee Academy's BLOG
http://www.TheJubileeAcademy.org/blog/
The Jubilee Academy
http://www.TheJubileeAcademy.org

Notschool
http://www.notschool.net/ns3/
Notschool
Notschool.net is an online research project looking at ways of re-engaging young people of school age back into learning. These young people have been out of the more traditional educational systems for a variety of personal and logistical reasons.
They include the phobic, ill, disaffected, sick, pregnant and the excluded. Notschool.net is specifically aimed at those for whom traditional alternatives such as home tutoring have not worked.
The success of Notschool.net exceeded all expectations and is now in it's third phase. It is being rolled out to Education Authorities across the UK and overseas, creating a multinational and supportive learning community.

The Virtual College : Pupil Referral Unit in Birmingham
http://www.virtual-college.bham.org.uk/
The Virtual College : Pupil Referral Unit in Birmingham
The Virtual College is a unique provider of alternative education for young people who have become disconnected from mainstream schooling. All of our young people have been out of mainstream school from between nine months to four years and have multiple barriers to learning.
The unique provision of the Virtual College aims to meet their complex needs using a combination of 1:1 tutoring in the home, with access to small, well managed groupwork, online curriculum opportunities and a work experience programe. All our students have their own laptop computer and have Internet access. This flexible provision means our young people can learn in situations that best suit their abilities and they can become part of a virtual community of other learners.

Nisai Virtual Academy (UK)
http://www.nisaivirtualacademy.com/
Nisai Virtual Academy (UK)
The Nisai Virtual Academy (NVA) is a virtual school that provides education to children (8 to 18) unable to attend mainstream schools. We work in partnership with Local Education Authorities (LEAs) to meet pupils' legal requirements and to deliver a service that complements and extends the services currently in place.
The educational provision of the NVA meets the requirements of the National Curriculum of England and Wales, up to and including GCSE.

Croydon Digital (UK)
http://www.croydondigital.com/whatis.html
Croydon Digital (UK) is a provision for Croydon pupils who are unable to attend school and for whom home tuition is not suitable.
Each pupil has a computer in her/his own home and receives ?n line tuition?and regular contact from the Project Co-ordinators, Online Teachers, Study Support Worker and a Connexions Support Worker.
Via their own secure web pages, pupils check their work and messages from tutors and also log in to secure specialist web pages geared to their Individual Learning Plan.
As the provision is primarly geared to Year 11, pupils are encouraged to consider work experience and preparation for college. We are currently seeing the benefits for young people who have particular interests and wish to spend more time on these areas such as IT or History.

Virtual High Schools
http://distancelearn.about.com/od/virtualhighschools/
Virtual High Schools questions and answers
Online high schools are becoming more and more popular. Whether students need to study from home to catch up on credits, tend to health concerns, or balance school with work (such as acting), virtual high schools can be a great choice for teens.

Colorado's Monte Vista's On-Line Academy
http://monte.k12.co.us/ola/index.htm
Colorado's Monte Vista's On-Line Academy
OLA is the first and most experienced online school in Colorado. We offer students anywhere in Colorado a rigorous curriculum taught by highly qualified, experienced teachers. We understand that not all students fit the traditional school mold, and we are pleased to offer a positive choice to those unique students still searching for an effective way to meet their educational needs.

Utah's Electronic High School (USA)
http://ehs.uen.org/
Utah's Electronic High School (USA)

Virtual High Schools: Schools of the Future?
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr119.shtml
Virtual High Schools: The High Schools of the Future? (article)
Join a class composed of students from different states and countries chatting and learning together yet never leaving their homes! Virtual courses, virtual student lounges, virtual yearbooks, and virtual graduations; is this the education of the future?

Ontario Virual High School
http://www.virtualhighschool.com/
Ontario Virual High School
VHS Students are from Ontario, other provinces and other countries. Students may register to take any of the online courses below provided they meet the prerequisite requirements as outlined in each Course Outline. Tuition for all students is the same. There are no other fees and an electronic textbook is provided.
VHS Courses allow students to begin at any time in the year and progress through their course at entirely their own pace. Students write open-book unit tests at their convenience of time and place. When finished the course, students write the proctored final exam at their convenience of time and place.

Michigan Virtual High School (USA)
http://www.mivhs.org/
Michigan Virtual High School (USA)
The Michigan Virtual High School (MVHS) is an online resource that enables Michigan high schools to provide courses (all taught by certified teachers) and other learning tools that students wouldn't otherwise have access to. It was funded by the Michigan Legislature in July 2000 to be operated by the Michigan Virtual University (MVU), a private, not-for-profit Michigan corporation.
MVHS doesn't independently grant diplomas or course credit but, instead, works in cooperation with individual school districts.
Through MVHS, Michigan high school students can prepare for tests such as MEAP and AP Exams, take a variety of courses and learn any place there is a computer and an Internet connection.

Virtual High School (USA)
http://www.govhs.org/website.nsf
Virtual High School (USA) VHS
VHS is the education industry's leader in providing online high school courses and in preparing classroom teachers to be effective online teachers.
Learn why thousands of students in hundreds of high schools across the globe choose to participate in VHS
Review our course offerings - Arts, Sciences, Language Arts, Technical...

Florida Virtual School
http://www.flvs.net/
Florida Virtual School (FLVS) is an established leader in developing and providing virtual K-12 education solutions to students throughout the country. Now a nationally recognized e-Learning model, FLVS began as a pilot project in 1997. At that time, FLVS began course development with limited enrollment, pioneering Florida ? first Internet-based, public high school?omplete with online high school curriculum.
Courses are delivered over the Internet. To assure student success with virtual learning, a variety of web-based, technology-based and traditional resources are provided.
FLVS offers more than 80 courses?verything from GED to honors to 11 Advanced Placement courses.

K-12 online-learning trend
http://www.edutopia.org/onlinelearning/
Close-up look at the K-12 online-learning trend, including profiles of leading programs, check out a multimedia feature developed by The George Lucas Educational Foundation in conjunction with the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB).
Online presentation including video and interviews.
Print article, presentation and video on Online Learning
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