Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
Two decades ago Newfoundland and Labrador introduced distance education in the K-12 environment. The program focused upon providing advanced-level courses to rural school students, and worked largely due to the widely known, but rarely documented significant amounts of content-based assistance from school based personnel. In the past seven years the province has moved to a virtual school model of distance education and more rural schools find that they must rely upon this virtual school to offer academic-level courses to students with a wide range of abilities. This has created many new responsibilities for teachers that have also gone undocumented. Studies that document the duties and time required to provide support for this new models of distance education are vital, as research is suggesting that this school-based personnel is vital to student success.
Recommended Citation
Barbour, Michael K. and Mulcahy, Dennis, "Beyond Volunteerism and Good Will: Examining the Commitment of Schoolbased Teachers to Distance Education" (2009). Education Faculty Publications. 177.
https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/ced_fac/177
Included in
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Educational Methods Commons, Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration Commons
Comments
AERA 2009 presentation paper. Link to Slideshare Presentation.