Resources

Standards

SREB Standards for Online Professional Development

SREB Standards for Quality Online Teaching

Quality Matters Rubric

See the Book The Virtual High School for SRI NetCourse Standards (link below)
Sites
SREB K20 Online Research

ISTE Educator Resources: Distance Education

Iowa State: Teacher Education Goes Into Virtual Schooling Resources

OTEC: Distance Learning Resources

Synthesis of New Research on Online Learning

eLearners K12 Online

Articles

K-12 Virtual Schools and Schooling (article)

Building Communities – Strategies for Collaborative Learning (article)

Downloads (pdf)

The Virtual School Report

A Scalable Model of Collaborative Learning: The Virtual High School Consortium

Report on State Virtual Schools

Toward a Deeper Understanding of Student Performance in Virtual High School Courses

The Effects of Distance Education on K-12 Student Outcomes: Meta-Analysis

Qualities of Effective Online Courses

Online Learning in K-12 Schools: What Works

What are the conditions for and the characteristics of online learning communities?

Online Journals

Innovate

The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Books

Collaborating Online Together

Palloff, R. (2006). Collaborating online: Learning together in community. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 0787976148

Essential elements: Prepare, design, and teach your online course

Elbaum, B., McIntyre, C., & Smith, A. (2002). Essential elements: Prepare, design, and teach your online course. Madison, WI: Atwood. ISBN: 1891859404

You Can Teach Online: Building a Creative Learning Environment

Moore, G., Winograd, K., & Lange, D. (2001). You can teach online: Building a creative learning environment. Boston: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 0072455179

Interactive Distance Learning Exercises That Really Work

Mantyla, K. (1999). Interactive distance learning exercises that really work: Turn classroom exercises into effective and enjoyable distance learning activities. Alexandria, VA: ASTD.
ISBN: 156286128X

The Virtual High School (Teachers College Press)

The Virtual High School

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