Schools of Isolated and Distance Education

SIDE (Schools of Isolated and Distance Education) is Western Australia's largest provider of distance education. SIDE is a secondary facility based in Perth and currently has 'thousands' of students enrolled.

Its website is http://www.side.wa.edu.au/index.php

Further information

SIDE was initially established in 1918 as the Western Australia Correspondence School. Today SIDE is a fully online school deploying 'cutting-edge' technologies and pedagogies including the web-conferencing platform Centra and Moodle learning environment. SIDE has a physical school-site with classrooms and a residential facility.

There is a parallel Primary SIDE.

SIDE has a focus on languages - the SIDE website says;

SIDE Secondary School offers a specialist program in Languages. This program includes the selection of four languages: French, Indonesian, Italian and Japanese. The quality of these programs has been enhanced by our Service Level Agreement with both Primary and Secondary Public Schools throughout Western Australia.

References

• SIDE

• http://www.side.wa.edu.au/index.php

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