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U.S. Virtual School Trial Period and Course Completion Policy Study
Abigail Hawkins Gonzales; Michael K. Barbour
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 2653–2660
Variations in the policies used by virtual schools in relation to course enrollment trial periods and course completion impact the comparability of attrition statistics. We contacted 159 U.S. virtual schools and received responses from 86 schools, a ...
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Strictly business: Teacher perceptions of interaction in virtual schooling
Abby Hawkins; Michael K. Barbour; Charles R. Graham
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 1520–1523
This study explored the nature of teacher-student interaction from the perspective of eight virtual school teachers in an asynchronous, self-paced, statewide, supplemental virtual high school. Teacher interviews revealed the majority of interactions ...
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“Everybody is their own island”: Teacher disconnection in a virtual school
Abigail Hawkins; Michael K. Barbour; Charles R. Graham
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 1524–1528
Virtual schooling is a recent phenomenon in K-12 online learning. As such, the roles of the online teachers are emerging and differ from those of the traditional classroom teacher. Using qualitative interviews of eight virtual high school teachers,...
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The Act of Online Writing as an Indicator of Student Performance
Michael K. Barbour; Michael A.J. Collins
Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2004 (October 2005)
This paper considers student use of a web-based discussion forum in a second year, non-major Biology course. The authors discuss how meaningful participation in the forum is a form of public writing and may be an indicator of overall student success ...