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Karen M. Carpenter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While K-12 online education and cyber charter schools have existed for decades, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 compelled every professor and teacher globally to participate in this mode of instruction. Four years after the pandemic, many brick-and-mortar K-12 schools have retained cyber or online classes within the curriculum to offer students more…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Charter Schools
Martin, Florence; Shanley, Nicole; Hite, Nicole; Pugalee, David; Perez-Quinones, Manuel; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Hart, Ellen – Computers in the Schools, 2023
Based on a current Research to Practice Partnership (RPP) between a southeastern public university and a state virtual public school in the United States, ten high school teachers from a virtual school who teach Computer Science (CS) online participated in a summer workshop to collaborate through a participatory action research project regarding…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, High School Teachers, Web Based Instruction, Virtual Schools
Dee, Thomas S.; Murphy, Mark – Educational Researcher, 2021
Early evidence indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic sharply reduced public school enrollment in many states. However, little is known about the underlying patterns of these declines. Using new district-level data from Massachusetts, we find that these declines were concentrated in traditional districts while charter, virtual, and vocational…
Descriptors: Enrollment, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Schools
Veney, Debbie; Jacobs, Drew – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2021
"Voting with Their Feet: A State-level Analysis of Public Charter School and District Public School Enrollment Trends" shows hundreds of thousands of families switched to charter schools during the first full school year of the pandemic. During the 2020-21 school year, charter school enrollment grew 7%, the largest increase in half a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Public Schools, Charter Schools, School Districts
Jennifer M. Vandiver – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The present study investigated the experiences of educators who taught in the virtual world Second Life®. Second Life has shown promise in the field of higher education but identified gaps exist: the identification of a set of best practices, a foundational theory, and educators' experiences using Second Life in higher education. Using a single…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Computer Games, Computer Mediated Communication, Technology Integration
Kaelyn K. Cole – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Though K-12 virtual education has been around for decades, the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly increased the number of K-12 schools offering virtual education to their students. This comparative case study's purpose was to explore secondary virtual schools within a public school environment. The focus of the study was to examine how two secondary…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Virtual Schools, Community Development, Secondary Education
Wallace, Burke – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the American school system into various forms of distance learning, remote learning schools were a small but growing segment of the educational system within the United States. This causal-comparative quantitative study examined demographic variables to assess differences in K-12 teachers' views of their…
Descriptors: Leadership, Virtual Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes
Flanders, Will – Journal of School Choice, 2021
Research has found that fall 2020 school district reopening decisions appear to be driven more by politics and teachers unions than by the local presence of COVID-19. But what are the implications of those decisions for enrollment trends? Using recently released enrollment data from the state of Wisconsin, this study goes further to show whether…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Public Schools, School Choice, School Closing
Tonks. DeLaina; Kimmons, Royce; Mason, Stacie L. – Online Learning, 2021
Research focusing on the experiences of special education students in online K-12 schools is scant despite growing numbers of enrollments. This study utilized an emailed survey to understand the motivations and experiences of a group of special education students (n = 30) and their parents (n = 29) while enrolled in an online K-12 school in the…
Descriptors: Motivation, Special Education, Special Needs Students, Student Attitudes
David Donald Harwood – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The main purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the challenges faced in teaching, learning, and technology in online geometry classes. The perspectives of online geometry students and teachers provided insights into the effectiveness of online geometry learning. A qualitative descriptive design was used to gain insights into the…
Descriptors: Geometry, Online Courses, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2023
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is required to submit this report to the Legislature regarding the status of existing charter schools, the number of petitions for new charter schools, and the action taken by school boards and DPI on petitions for new charter schools (see Wis. Stat. §115.28 (49)). This report offers the results…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Charter Schools, School Districts, Grants
Weiner, Steven – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2022
KaiPod Learning is a for-profit company offering students enrolled in online schools the opportunity to learn in a physical location with adult supervision, academic support, and extracurricular enrichment. Tuition is attendance based, with the option of students going two, three, or five days per week. This report discusses how KaiPod Learning…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, In Person Learning, Virtual Schools
Bedrick, Jason; Ladner, Matthew – Heritage Foundation, 2023
Opponents of education choice often make two arguments about its effect on rural areas: (1) education choice will not help in rural areas because there are few or no alternatives to the district school system; and (2) education choice will destroy the district school system because so many students will leave for alternative options. These two…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, School Choice, Educational Policy, Private Schools
Ingrid Mosquera-Gende – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2023
The use of digital tools forms part of any online educational context. When it comes to the training of future teachers, this point proves crucial in order to transfer this technology to classrooms. In addition to the above, incorporating this type of resources as a part of an active learning proposal will enhance their motivation, self-regulation…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Active Learning, Electronic Learning, Academic Achievement
Rodríguez, M. Elena; Guerrero-Roldán, Ana Elena; Baneres, David; Karadeniz, Abdulkadir – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
This work discusses a nudging intervention mechanism combined with an artificial intelligence (AI) system for early detection of learners' risk of failing or dropping out. Different types of personalized nudges were designed according to educational principles and the learners' risk classification. The impact on learners' performance, dropout…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Learning, College Students, Intervention