Virtual High School Ontario

The Virtual High School Ontario (VHSO) is a private virtual school. VHSO offers a broad range of courses for Grades 9 - 12 students and also a range of programmes including summer schools, make-up credits and e-work-placements.

In 2009 VHSO had 2,200 active students enrolled across 64 courses.

Its website is https://www.virtualhighschool.com/

Further information

Virtual High School Ontario utilises:

• Desire2Learn's Learning Management System (LMS)

• collaboration tools facilitate communication - teacher to student and student to student

• professional animations, visuals, auditory devices for enhanced visual learning

• interactive exercises and assessments provide the student with an opportunity to evaluate your progress and aptitude

• online DropBox is used for submitting assignments thereby eliminating "snail mail"

• individual online storage space

• individual email account

• course work by past students is available to current students as reference material

The Virtual High School Ontario is also responsible for the Virtual High School Nova Scotia.

References

• Virtual High School (Ontario): wikipedia
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_High_School_%28Ontario%29
• “State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada”: iNACOL November 2010
• http://www.inacol.org/research/docs/iNACOL_CanadaStudy10-finalweb.pdf

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