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!Congratulations to [[Sophia High School]] for achieving DfE accreditation!
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== Express links ==
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! See our new page [[2023 Pages]] which summarises updates to this wiki since 31 December 2022 - also in Sidebar as "Pages changed in 2023", just above "Random page"
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> '''[[REPORTS]] for key reports (also see link in Sidebar)'''
Welcome to the Virtual Education Wiki, devoted to virtual learning in education at all levels (schools, colleges and universities) including informal learning, '''open learning''' (OER) and distance learning. It is also known as the Open Education Wiki.
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> [[VISCED]] - virtual schools reports and deliverables
As this is a wiki, you can edit it as part of the [[Special:ListUsers|Virtual Education Wiki Community]].  Prior to contributing, you may find it useful to view our [[Help:Index|help pages]] and '''note that anything you change may be amended or deleted by other wiki users.'''
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> [[Re.ViCa]] - virtual universities/campuses reports and deliverables
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> [[POERUP]] - open educational resources reports and deliverables




== Welcome to virtualeducation.wiki ==
The idea in 2008 behind the original wiki was to create an open and public space where researchers could share information about virtual developments in various different educational sectors. It was supported and maintained during 2009-2015 by a community of researchers from EU and beyond and was aimed at stakeholders, researchers and practitioners who wanted to have easy access to the latest information about how the virtual phenomenon is manifesting itself in schools, colleges and universities around the world. You will therefore find much of this legacy information in the wiki. The wiki is now being updated in all its aspects, focussing initially on OER initiatives, OER policies and virtual schools.


This wiki - now called virtualeducation.wiki - is, we believe, the largest professional wiki in the world devoted to virtual learning in education - at all levels (schools, colleges and universities) including informal learning, open learning and distance learning.
'''This summer and autumn (Northern Hemisphere) there is a big push on virtual schools, getting more coordinates and adding infoboxes to entries so that they can be dynamically mapped.'''


The idea behind this wiki was to create an open and public space where researchers could share information about virtual developments in various different educational sectors. It was supported and maintained by a community of researchers and was aimed at stakeholders, researchers and practitioners who wanted to have easy access to the latest information about how the virtual phenomenon is manifesting itself in schools, colleges and universities around the world.  
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!We are also looking for collaborators to load large amounts of other legacy material on OER.
See in particular our samples of material from the former [[OER World Map]].<br>
← Look left in the Sidebar.
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It is curated by [[Paul Bacsich]] and hosted by the Catholic University of Leuven ([[K.U.Leuven]]).
== '''''Current Wiki-Editors''''' ==
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![[File:Wiki-editor Charlotte.png|alt=Image of Charlotte Doody next to her name, all within a navy blue circle.|thumb|Charlotte Doody, Wiki Contributor]]
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Paul Bacsich, Wiki Host, [https://bacsich.org/ Matic Media Ltd]


Charlotte Doody, Wiki Contributor


== ''News'' ==
== '''''Latest news and resources''''' ==
[[File:Wiki News.png|alt=News and resources written above a hand holding a newspaper. All within a navy blue circle.|thumb|Decorative image]]


=== February 2020 - Limited edits ===
See [[News]]


This wiki is now the archive wiki for the Re.ViCa, VISCED and related EU LLP projects and is now closed to external requests for editor rights.
<span style="color:#2a4b8d; background:#fc3">PAPERS WANTED</span>


Limited edits are being made by the Curator in order to ensure that invalid links are corrected and that the reports from the Re.ViCa, VISCED and other projects hosted on this wiki are still available. (Many associated sites are no longer active.)
[[Special Issue of the journal Education Sciences on Virtual Schools]] - deadline October 2024


This wiki has been used as the resource wiki for new online courses for teacher training (the TTTOL project) which started in May 2019.  
The Special Issue aims to consolidate cutting-edge research and insights into K-12 virtual schools to serve as a comprehensive resource for researchers, policy makers, school leaders and virtual school teachers.


If anyone is interested in continuing to edit please contact the Curator paul.bacsich AT sero.co.uk to discuss arrangements for them to gain editing rights on the new wiki http://virtual-learning.referata.com
Its full title is "Virtual Schools for K-12 Education: Lessons Learned and Implications for Digital K-12 and Other Sectors of Education" (Guest Editors: Paul Bacsich, Sara de Freitas and Bieke Schreurs).


Please also notify the Curator at the above email address if you find any invalid links on this wiki.
The deadline for submissions is <big>'''now 1 October 2024'''</big>.


For the latest information see https://bacsich.org/2024/03/13/special-issue-of-the-journal-education-sciences-on-virtual-schools-call-for-papers/


=== ''Earlier news''  ===
<span style="color:#2a4b8d; background:#fc3">New resource</span>


See [[News]].
[https://airtable.com/shrtuuwu5ALUYr2xf/tblnRVtr3Kjrh5vnQ Online Schools and Online Learning Guide]


Jonathan Lloyd, author of the Online Schools Group on LinkedIn, has produced The Online Schools and Online Learning Guide independently tracks the impact and development of the digital education sector, UK and globally. It specifically focuses on the digitalisations of the education sector including online and hybrid schools, home-education, online schooling, virtual reality, skills, esports, AI, Web3 and learning communities.


== Key links  ==
Find it here: [https://airtable.com/shrtuuwu5ALUYr2xf/tblnRVtr3Kjrh5vnQ The Global Online Schools and Online Learning Guide]


*''[http://virtualschoolsandcolleges.eu/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=1000&days=90 Last 3 months' changes - up to 1000]''<br>
=== Old News ===
*'''[[:Category:VISCED|All VISCED pages]]'''
*[[Special:AllPages|All wiki pages]]


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For news prior to 2023 see [[Old News]]


== Funding  ==
== Warning ==


This wiki is currently supported financially by [[Matic Media Ltd]]. The wiki is hosted by [[K.U.Leuven]].  
'''''Please be aware that with the large volume of legacy information contained within this wiki, a degree of link rot may be present.'''''


Funding to launch this wiki came mainly from the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission through projects relevant to virtual learning. In addition, a series of smaller initiatives and volunteer labour aimed to keep updating the material. (See in particular [[E-World]] and [[LUOERL]].)
== General area ==


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*[[Virtual schools]] (K-12)
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*[[Virtual colleges]] (TVET)
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*[[Virtual campuses]] (i.e. higher education online)
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*[[Open Education Initiatives]] (OER or MOOCs, in any educational sector)


This wiki is currently maintained under the Exploitation Phase of the [[VISCED]] project on '''Virtual Schools and Colleges''' (funded by LLP in 2011 - 2012), which made an inventory and carried out a systematic review at international and national levels of innovative ICT-enhanced learning/teaching "Exemplar" initiatives and "e-mature" major secondary and post-secondary education providers for the 14-21 age group.
For the former Main Page (2011-22) see [[2022 Main Page]]


VISCED enhanced Re.ViCa's earlier research work on this wiki on country reports and resources with research results relevant to virtual schools and exemplars.
== Admin area ==


Read more [[VISCED|here]].
(Current server name today is {{SERVERNAME}})


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> [[Special:RecentChanges]]<br>> [[Special:AllPages]]
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Originally set up in 2007 by the [[Re.ViCa]] project on '''Virtual Campuses in universities and colleges''' (2007- 2009), this wiki started out with providing an inventory and showing the results of a systematic review of Virtual Campus initiatives of the past decade within higher education throughout the world.


In 2009, Re.ViCa research pages on this wiki included over 300 categorised [[Programmes]], [[Country reports]], nine in-depth [[Institutional reports]] and a large number of related [[Resources]] (research projects, outputs, and publications).
[[Category:VISCED]]
 
[[Category:POERUP content]]
Read more [[Re.ViCa|here]].
[[Category:VISCED-20]]
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[[Category:VISCED23]]


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Content is available under '''Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license (International)''' unless otherwise noted.


[[POERUP]] has put some material on this wiki but most is on its own [http://poerup.referata.com POERUP wiki].
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!'''''The wiki is supported by [[Matic Media Ltd]], with hosting and technical support from [https://www.wikiworks.com/ Wikiworks].'''''
It is planned one day to integrate all such wikis on a new platform but only limited progress has yet been made.
'''''Particular thanks are due to [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yaron_Koren Yaron Koren], the renowned MediaWiki developer, for his work on migration and data transfer.'''''
 
 
== Disclaimer  ==
 
The Editorial Team makes every effort to ensure, but does not guarantee, the accuracy of the information on this wiki, but we warmly invite anyone who sees incorrect information to let us know. You can read more information on this topic [[Disclaimer|here]].
 
There has been no systematic updating of material since 2013. However, this wiki remains the only comprehensive source of information on virtual schools, colleges, campuses and universities known to us and has been used as the starting point for many EU, national and international research studies and teaching activities since then, up to and including the current day.
 
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This wiki was originally partly funded through the EU [[Re.ViCa]] project (2007-2009), then through the EU [[VISCED]] project (2011-2012), and finally though the EU POERUP project (2011-2014) with support from the European Commission through the [http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/ Lifelong Learning Programme].  
 
''The wiki reflects the views only of the authors, and the European Commission, European Parliament or any other funders commercial or state cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.''
 
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Revision as of 10:21, 13 March 2024

Category:Virtual schools
Image of a person doing online learning by Katerina Holmes from Pexels. This image sits on top of a navy blue circle. Image of a search bar with virtual/online schools across the centre of the image.
Virtual/online schools button
 Virtual_college
Image of a person doing online learning by Katerina Holmes from Pexels. This image sits on top of a navy blue circle. Image of a search bar with virtual/online colleges across the centre of the image.
Virtual/online colleges button
 Programmes
Image of a person doing online learning by Katerina Holmes from Pexels. This image sits on top of a navy blue circle. Image of a search bar with virtual/online HE across the centre of the image.
Virtual/online HE button
 Open Education Initiatives - list
Image of a person doing online learning by Katerina Holmes from Pexels. This image sits on top of a navy blue circle. Image of a search bar with OER across the centre of the image.
OER Initiatives button
Congratulations to Sophia High School for achieving DfE accreditation!
See our new page 2023 Pages which summarises updates to this wiki since 31 December 2022 - also in Sidebar as "Pages changed in 2023", just above "Random page"

Welcome to the Virtual Education Wiki, devoted to virtual learning in education at all levels (schools, colleges and universities) including informal learning, open learning (OER) and distance learning. It is also known as the Open Education Wiki.

As this is a wiki, you can edit it as part of the Virtual Education Wiki Community.  Prior to contributing, you may find it useful to view our help pages and note that anything you change may be amended or deleted by other wiki users.


The idea in 2008 behind the original wiki was to create an open and public space where researchers could share information about virtual developments in various different educational sectors. It was supported and maintained during 2009-2015 by a community of researchers from EU and beyond and was aimed at stakeholders, researchers and practitioners who wanted to have easy access to the latest information about how the virtual phenomenon is manifesting itself in schools, colleges and universities around the world. You will therefore find much of this legacy information in the wiki. The wiki is now being updated in all its aspects, focussing initially on OER initiatives, OER policies and virtual schools.

This summer and autumn (Northern Hemisphere) there is a big push on virtual schools, getting more coordinates and adding infoboxes to entries so that they can be dynamically mapped.

We are also looking for collaborators to load large amounts of other legacy material on OER.

See in particular our samples of material from the former OER World Map.
← Look left in the Sidebar.

Current Wiki-Editors

Image of Paul Bacsich alongside his name within a navy blue circle.
Paul Bacsich, Matic Media Ltd
Image of Charlotte Doody next to her name, all within a navy blue circle.
Charlotte Doody, Wiki Contributor

Paul Bacsich, Wiki Host, Matic Media Ltd

Charlotte Doody, Wiki Contributor

Latest news and resources

News and resources written above a hand holding a newspaper. All within a navy blue circle.
Decorative image

See News

PAPERS WANTED

Special Issue of the journal Education Sciences on Virtual Schools - deadline October 2024

The Special Issue aims to consolidate cutting-edge research and insights into K-12 virtual schools to serve as a comprehensive resource for researchers, policy makers, school leaders and virtual school teachers.

Its full title is "Virtual Schools for K-12 Education: Lessons Learned and Implications for Digital K-12 and Other Sectors of Education" (Guest Editors: Paul Bacsich, Sara de Freitas and Bieke Schreurs).

The deadline for submissions is now 1 October 2024.

For the latest information see https://bacsich.org/2024/03/13/special-issue-of-the-journal-education-sciences-on-virtual-schools-call-for-papers/

New resource

Online Schools and Online Learning Guide

Jonathan Lloyd, author of the Online Schools Group on LinkedIn, has produced The Online Schools and Online Learning Guide independently tracks the impact and development of the digital education sector, UK and globally. It specifically focuses on the digitalisations of the education sector including online and hybrid schools, home-education, online schooling, virtual reality, skills, esports, AI, Web3 and learning communities.

Find it here: The Global Online Schools and Online Learning Guide

Old News

For news prior to 2023 see Old News

Warning

Please be aware that with the large volume of legacy information contained within this wiki, a degree of link rot may be present.

General area

See links in Sidebar for the main content options. Alternatively see below:

For the former Main Page (2011-22) see 2022 Main Page

Admin area

(Current server name today is openeducation.wiki)

> Special:RecentChanges
> Special:AllPages

Content is available under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license (International) unless otherwise noted.

The wiki is supported by Matic Media Ltd, with hosting and technical support from Wikiworks.

Particular thanks are due to Yaron Koren, the renowned MediaWiki developer, for his work on migration and data transfer.

Retrieved from "http://openeducation.wiki/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=43323"