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Redesigning Design: Field Testing a Revised Design Rubric Based of iNACOL Quality Course Standards
David Adelstein; Michael Barbour
The Journal of Distance Education / Revue de l'ducation Distance Vol. 31, No. 2 (Nov 15, 2016)
Designers have a limited selection of K-12 online course creation standards to choose from that are not blocked behind proprietary or pay walls. For numerous institutions and states, the use of the iNACOL National Standards for Quality Online...
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Secondary Students Perceptions of Web-Based Learning
Michael Barbour; Angelene McLaren; Lin Zhang
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 2486–2495
In this paper, the authors presents the results of a survey study of secondary students’ perceptions of useful and challenging characteristics (the follow-up interview study analysis is not quite ready at the time of this proposal). Data were...
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Distributed Learning in British Columbia: A Journey from Correspondence to Online Delivery
Tim Winkelmans; Barry Anderson; Michael Barbour
Journal of Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning Vol. 14, No. 1 (2010) pp. 6–28
Kindergarten to Year 12 distance education began in Canada in British Columbia, around 1919. This fi rst distance education was by correspondence. Canada’s fi rst online learning also began in British Columbia, about 15 years ago. Distance...
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Innovative Public Education or Glorified Homeschooling: Funding Full-Time K-12 Online Learning
Michael Barbour
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1435–1437
While there has been some improvement in what is known about supplemental K-12 online learning, there continues to be a lack of evidence to guide the practice of full-time K-12 online learning. This paper examines the literature and research into...
Topics: Virtual Schooling
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Multiple Roles of the Teacher in the K-12 Online Learning Environment: Cautions for Teacher Education
Michael Barbour
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1521–1526
While the use of online learning at the K-12 level of growing exponentially, the availability of empirical evidence to help guide this growth is severely lacking. This proposal provides a systematic review of K-12 online learning literature related...
Topics: Virtual Schooling
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Examining the Research Related to the Changing Role of the Teacher in the K-12 Online Environment
Michael Barbour
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4097–4101
While the use of online learning at the K-12 level of growing exponentially, the availability of empirical evidence to help guide this growth is severely lacking. This proposal provides a systematic review of K-12 online learning literature related...
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K-12 Online Learning and the Diffusion of the Teacher
Michael Barbour
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 1737–1741
While the use of online learning at the K-12 level of growing exponentially, the availability of empirical evidence to help guide this growth is severely lacking. This proposal provides a systematic review of K-12 online learning literature related...
Topics: research
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The Disconnect Between Policy and Research: Examining the Research into Full-Time K-12 Online Learning
Michael Barbour
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1438–1445
While there has been some improvement in what is known about supplemental K-12 online learning, there continues to be a lack of evidence to guide the practice of full-time K-12 online learning. This paper concludes that despite considerable...
Topics: Virtual Schooling
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Inviting Education Online: The Development of an Asynchronous Graduate Program
Jim O'Connor; Michael Barbour; Lisa Norton; Peter Wong
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 835–840
The theory of invitational education® has its foundations in a democratic ethos, favorable perception of the environment, and positive self-concept. Invitational education® posits that a positive learning environment can be created when those...
Topics: Global learning partnerships and innovations, Global courses, programs, degrees, and initiatives, Innovative online learning and educational programming
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Building Better Courses: Examining the Construct Validity of the iNACOL National Standards for Quality Online Courses
David Adelstein; Michael Barbour
Journal of Online Learning Research Vol. 2, No. 1 (April 2016) pp. 41–73
In 2011 iNACOL released the second iteration of the National Standards for Quality Online Courses. These standards have been used by numerous institutions and states around the country to help design and create K-12 online courses. However, there...
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The Promise and the Reality: Exploring the Research on Virtual Schooling
Michael Barbour
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3433–3442
The first web-based distance education programs at the K-12 began in the early 1990s. Unlike distance education and online learning in general, much less is known about virtual schooling – even less of which is based on systematic research. What is...
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“Opening” a new kind of school: The story of the Open High School of Utah
DeLaina Tonks; Sarah Weston; David Wiley; Michael Barbour
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 14, No. 1 (Feb 14, 2013) pp. 255–271
The use of online learning at the primary and secondary school level is growing exponentially in the United States. Much of this growth is with full-time online schools, most of which are operated by for-profit companies that use proprietary online...
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K-12 Online Course Development: Examining Developer Perceptions
Jonathan Morrison; David Adelstein; Michael Barbour
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4133–4139
This study examined the need and application of tools in web-based course development process with the Illinois Virtual High School, (IVHS). A brief historical look into the online course development is conveyed to better understand the need for...
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The Forgotten Teachers in K-12 Online Learning: Examining the Perceptions of Teachers Who Develop K-12 Online Courses
Michael Barbour; David Adelstein; Jonathan Morrison
International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design Vol. 4, No. 3 (July 2014) pp. 18–33
Like many K-12 online learning programs, the Illinois Virtual High School (IVHS) began by utilizing vendor content to populate its online courses. In its fourth year, the IVHS began a concerted effort to design more of its own online course content...
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Today’s Student and Virtual Schooling: The Reality, the Challenges, the Promise…
Michael Barbour
Journal of Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning Vol. 13, No. 1 (2009) pp. 5–25
In 2008 I was approached to deliver a keynote address at the biennial conference of the Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ) in Wellington on the topic of today’s student and K–12 distance education.Several months ago,...
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Odyssey of the mind: Social networking in a cyberschool
Michael Barbour; Cory Plough
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 13, No. 3 (May 22, 2012) pp. 1–18
K-12 online learning and cyber charter schools have grown at a tremendous rate over the past decade. At the same time, these online programs have struggled to provide the social spaces where students can interact that K-12 schools are traditionally...