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Direct linkLeanne McIver; Michael Bettencourt – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
The 'virtual school' is an approach to supporting care-experienced children and young people in education. The Virtual School Head (VSH) has been a statutory role within the education landscape in England since 2014. In Scotland, where the education, social care and legal systems are distinct from those in England, there has been a recent increase…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foster Care, Virtual Schools, Principals
Kyungmee Lee; Olaf Zawacki-Richter; Berrin Cefa Sari – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
Alongside the growing demand for doctoral degrees, there has been an increasing number of online doctoral programmes and online doctoral students enrolled across the globe. While the importance of mediating roles that communication technology plays in online doctoral education has been extensively documented, a comprehensive account of how and for…
Descriptors: Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Doctoral Students, Online Courses
Josep Figueroa-Cañas; Teresa Sancho-Vinuesa – Open Learning, 2024
Practitioners of the statistics course embedded in a computer science programme at a fully online university were concerned with the high dropout rate. In the academic year 2018-19, they decided to carry out a two-phase project in order to address this issue. In the first phase, an early classifier to identify students at risk of dropping out of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Virtual Schools, Online Courses
Nespor, Jan; Fitz, Julie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
Schools produce multiple products and digitization articulates with them in different ways. In this paper we expand the frame for analyzing instructional automation by examining its implications for three scholastic products -- embodied learning, grades and test scores, and the narratives that connect the two. We draw on data from interviews with…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Automation, Virtual Schools, Elementary Schools
Beck, Dennis; French, Seth D.; Allred, Johnny B.; Goering, Christian Z. – Cogent Education, 2022
Virtual schooling in America is a complex notion, one riddled with simultaneous claims of provenance coupled with poor achievement results when compared to other forms of schooling. Recruitment practices for virtual schools, specifically available television-length advertisements from a national list of fully online schools, comprised a data set…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Content Analysis, Television, Advertising
Download full textYeol Huh; Dabae Lee; Charles M. Reigeluth – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2024
Studies have indicated that self-regulated learning is critical for 21st century learners and lifelong learners, and it can also explain students' learning outcomes. In the current learner-centered instruction, especially in online learning environments, self-regulated learning has become a more critical element for students' success. Given the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Virtual Schools, Self Management, Technology Uses in Education
Ebner, Aviva – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2023
Schools are typically highly structured institutions, so any shifts in processes can potentially generate anxiety, confusion, and even anger among staff. As such, when there is frequent change, initiatives often fail to achieve their intended goals. Well-intentioned initiatives can go awry when not consistently implemented correctly by all staff;…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Change Strategies, Reliability, Access to Information
Ian Seth Kingsbury – Journal of School Choice, 2023
A survey tasks young adults who graduated from virtual charters managed by a large education management organization to assess the degree to which virtual schools prepared them for postsecondary and career success. The same survey questions were also administered to a nationally representative group of American adults ages 18-29. Overall,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Technology Uses in Education, Virtual Schools
Dennis Beck – Cogent Education, 2024
At-risk students face a variety of challenges that encompass cultural, social and environmental contexts and identities. Full time virtual schools offer help for at-risk students through the provision of a personalized learning option where students can catch up with past work or complete school work in a non-traditional environment. The purpose…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, At Risk Students, Parent Attitudes, Virtual Schools
Kingsbury, Ian; Maranto, Robert; Beck, Dennis – Journal of School Choice, 2021
Cyber charter schools may increase access to a range of educational offerings, but they substantially underperform traditional public schools on measured academic performance, as demonstrated in a range of studies with distinct samples and methods. Artificial testing conditions offer a possible explanation. In contrast to face-to-face students,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Virtual Schools, Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests
Willermark, Sara; Islind, Anna Sigridur – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore virtual leadership work within educational settings in the light of social disruption. In 2020, a global pandemic changed the way we work. For school leaders, that involved running a virtual school overnight. Although there is a stream of research that explores leadership in solely virtual communities, there is…
Descriptors: Leadership, Affordances, Virtual Schools, COVID-19
Paulina Aravena-Bravo; Alejandrina Cristia; Rowena Garcia; Hiromasa Kotera; Ramona Kunene Nicolas; Ronel Laranjo; Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan; Margaret Cychosz; Rodrigo Dal Ben; Yatma Diop; Catalina Durán-Urzúa; Naomi Havron; Marie Manalili; Bhuvana Narasimhan; Paul Okyere Omane; Caroline Rowland; Leticia Schiavon Kolberg; Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata; Suzy J. Styles; Belén Troncoso-Acosta; Fei Ting Woon – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, we describe the school, our experience organizing it, and lessons…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Acquisition, Virtual Schools, Educational Researchers
Beck, Dennis; Beasley, Jennifer – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
Despite a large increase in enrollments of students in online courses at the K-12 level, there is very little research on the use of differentiation in fully online (called "virtual") schools. This study asked virtual teachers from two different types of schools to discuss their differentiation practices, and compared differentiation…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Virtual Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Stephanie D. Sullivan; Abigail L. Morris – Educational Research Quarterly, 2024
Has in-person learning and virtual learning produced equivalent results when it comes to student achievement? How can a district be flexible with learning options but also strategic with how to best achieve student learning gains? This case-study examines how one district leveraged virtual learning and flexible learning options during COVID-19 and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Blended Learning
McNaughton, Stuart; Rosedale, Naomi; Zhu, Tong; Siryj, John; Oldehaver, Jacinta; Teng, Sophie Lin; Williamson, Rachel; Jesson, Rebecca – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Students' social and emotional development matters to their educational success. Ubiquitous digital use in schooling creates new contexts for development, raising the question of the nature of the relationships under these new conditions. Ratings of 9 to 13 year old students' (n = 296) social skills and self-regulation and their writing…
Descriptors: Self Control, Interpersonal Competence, Social Development, Emotional Development
