Online Learning in Virginia: Exploring the Landscape
March 1, 2012 |
Online Learning in Virginia: Exploring the Landscape
Jonathan D. Becker, J.D., PhD, Jesse Senechal, Charol Shakeshaft (2013)
Department of Educational Leadership
As online learning in the K‐12 realm grows, so does the body of literature around it. Books, guidance documents and empirical research in the area are proliferating. What follows is by no means intended to be a complete review of the literature. Rather, this section is intended to introduce the reader to some key concepts related to online learning and to set the policy context and the empirical justification for the study that is reported in subsequent sections. The first subsection does some definitional work. That is followed with a subsection that looks at the national context through some data and information about the growth of online learning. The final subsection is about the policy context in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
