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Mark Jeremy Colwell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Middle-management leaders are in a crucible. In addition to managing their extensive regular duties and leading groups toward common goals, they must navigate conflicting expectations and competing demands from their superiors and subordinates. The challenges in middle-management leadership are exacerbated in fast-paced, high stakes, large-scale…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Organizational Change, Leadership, Virtual Schools
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
Esche, Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify decision-making factors from parents of Southeast Rural School District (SRSD) who chose to transfer their children to one of 14 cyber charter schools within Pennsylvania amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This research study utilized a phenomenological design, consisting of qualitative electronic…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Decision Making, School Choice, Transfer Students
George Veletsianos; Valerie Irvine; Nicole Johnson – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2023
This project undertook an analysis of the evolving nature of online, hybrid, and multi-access learning within the British Columbia (BC) post-secondary education system. The project objectives included assessing potential changes in the scope and nature of online learning in BC, understanding stakeholder insights on learner preferences towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Blended Learning
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
Lapp, David; Eddins, Mary – Research for Action, 2022
Pennsylvania has "the highest cyber charter school enrollment in the country" with student enrollment soaring in 2020-21 due to concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. School districts paid over $1 billion in tuition for students enrolled in Pennsylvania's 14 cyber charter schools in 2020-21, a $335 million increase over the prior…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Charter Schools, School Expansion, COVID-19
Beck, Dennis; Borup, Jered; Wood, Camie – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
Existing research on facilitators in K-12 schools has focused on supplemental online programs where on-site personnel work with online students in a local brick-and-mortar school. While some insightful research exists focused on online facilitators at full-time cyber schools, additional research is needed to examine facilitators using synchronous…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Online Courses
Gratz, Trevor; Goldhaber, Dan; Brown, Nate – Journal of School Choice, 2022
While spring of 2020 introduced virtual instruction to all public schools, virtual schooling had already been growing in most states. We focus on pre-COVID-19 changes to full-time virtual school enrollment in public schools, and provide evidence on the relationship between virtual school enrollment, internet speed, community demographics, and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Electronic Learning
Burris, Carol – Network for Public Education, 2022
Demand for charter schools is declining. In sixteen of the forty-one states that have published 2021-2022 enrollment numbers, charter school enrollment has dropped, in some cases, by substantial amounts. In an additional six states, charter enrollment has stalled with increases of fewer than 200 students in charter schools across the state. Using…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Enrollment, School Choice, Admission (School)
Julie A. Marsh; James C. Bridgeforth; Laura Steen Mulfinger; Desiree O'Neal; Tong Tong – Grantee Submission, 2024
Although the COVID pandemic dramatically expanded K-12 remote learning in its first years, little is known about the lasting effects on virtual schooling policies and practices. Drawing on evolutionary theories of change and qualitative data from 2019 to 2022, we explore this topic in Oregon, a state with a long history of virtual schools. We find…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Virtual Schools, Distance Education
Jennifer Holt – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Virtual education has been steadily growing since the late 1990s. Early research was primarily focused on the comparative studies between brick-and-mortar schools and virtual or hybrid schools. While the research over the past two decades has grown substantially and now includes broader topics such as for whom virtual education seems to work well…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Electronic Learning, Virtual Schools, Blended Learning
Julie A. Marsh; James Bridgeforth; Laura Mulfinger; Desiree O’Neal; Tong Tong – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2024
Since the peak of the pandemic in 2020, enrollment in virtual schools has steadily increased, with virtual schools now accounting for approximately 1.4% of the nation's public school students. While the effects of the pandemic on student achievement and mental health have been extensively studied, research has yet to thoroughly examine the impact…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Virtual Schools, Distance Education
Julie Marsh; James Bridgeforth; Laura Mulfinger; Desiree O’Neal; Tong Tong – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2024
In this paper, the authors draw on evolutionary theories of change and qualitative data from 2019-2022, to explore the impact of the pandemic on K-12 virtual education in a state with a long history of virtual schooling by asking: "How has the ongoing COVID pandemic influenced virtual schooling in Oregon?" A virtual school in this study…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Virtual Schools, Distance Education
Tanicka Lashawn Robeson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Virtual schools have gained popularity by providing students with the flexibility to learn anytime, anywhere. The appeal of virtual education lies in its capacity to enhance student choices and improve the efficiency of public education (Molnar et al., 2019). Online learning, with its adaptable and personalized approach, proves more effective than…
Descriptors: Principals, Virtual Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics
Jessica Adams-Grigorieff – ProQuest LLC, 2023
With recent advances in generative artificial intelligence, it may come as no surprise that AI influences our society in profound ways. This dissertation project examines how educational and social media platforms and their algorithms shape educational practices and the identity, digital literacies and views of middle school youth participants.…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Critical Literacy, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence