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Virtual Schools: Planning for Successreviewed by Shula Klinger - 2006 Title: Virtual Schools: Planning for Success Author(s): Zane L. Berge, & Tom Clark (Eds.) Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807745715, Pages: 246, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com This collection of essays offers its readers a realistic and thoughtful survey of online school development. Rather than tackling the why of online education, it delves into the how, exploring and explaining the processes and elements that are key to an online schools success.
If you have already taken part in a venture of this kind, this collection will ring some loud bells in your mind. However, if you are taking your first tentative steps towards a school-wide, online program for K12 students, it is full of important lessons and essential warnings.
Cautious readers who are tired of the optimistic rhetoric surrounding online education will find much to interest them in this work, which does not make promises about the programs for students of tomorrow, but tackles the practicalities and pitfalls of offering a program for students who are in school today. With refreshing candor, Berge and Clark are dismissive of... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Shula Klinger
South Island Distance Education School E-mail Author SHULA KLINGER is a freelance consultant in online school and community development. Her Ph.D. (2002) examined the use of online forums in education policy development. Most recently, she worked as an instructional designer for the Vancouver School Board (2002-2005). Her most recent publication is a chapter in the "Encyclopedia for Youth Culture" (Greenwood Publishing; forthcoming 2005), which she co-authored with 9 students from an online high school in Vancouver, BC.
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