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Online, Blended, and Distance Education in Schools: Building Successful Programs

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Co-Published with the Microsoft Corporation Online, Blended and Distance Education in Schools provides students enrolled in Education Technology, Educational Administration and related Masters and PhD programs with expert opinions and insights on the practice and policy in K-12 online, blended and distance education, online and blended programs, including curriculum, instruction, technology and management aspects. It describes the status and trends of the field, provides illustrative program examples, explores the issues and challenges that programs face and highlights ongoing research in key areas related to program effectiveness. Topics discussed:* The current status of K-12 online, distance and blended learning in the U.S.* Policy, funding, and management issues in relation to program implementation* Research on effective programs within governmental jurisdiction and various program types* Global case studies that represent the variety of ways programs are being successfully implemented * A synthesis of key findings and lessons learned, and local and global visions for the future of K-12 distance and online learningThis text is highly appropriate for students enrolled in Educational Technology, Educational Administration and related Masters and PhD programs. An online companion resource provides pedagogical features that enhance text use in a classroom setting.

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  • Weight: 480g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Feb 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781620361641

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Tom Clark is president of Clark Consulting a research and evaluation consulting firm with a focus on online and blended learning. In this role he has undertaken many successful evaluations for a wide variety of organizations including a federally funded $9.1 million online professional development project state-led virtual schools large district-led online learning programs and cyber charter schools. He was an advisor for U.S. Department of Educations Evaluating Online Learning (2008). Recognized as an author in online and distance learning in Whos Who in America he has a wide range of publications in the field including white papers policy studies books and articles. He co-edited Virtual Schools: Planning for Success (Teachers College Press 2005) authored an early overview of K12 online learning in the United States Virtual Schools: Status and Trends (WestEd 2001) and co-authored one of the first American texts in the field Distance Education: The Foundations of Effective Practice (Jossey-Bass 1991). Michael Barbour is Director of Doctoral Studies for the Isabelle Farrington College of Education and an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield Connecticut. He completed his PhD in instructional technology from the University of Georgia. Originally from the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador Dr. Barbours interest in K12 distance education began after accepting his first high school teaching position in a rural high school he was troubled by the inequity of opportunity and began a program to offer online Advanced Placement social studies courses to students in his district. For more than a decade Michael has worked with numerous K12 online learning programs in Canada the United States New Zealand and around the world as an online teacher course developer administrator evaluator and researcher. His current research interests focus on the effective design and delivery of o

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