North Carolina Virtual Public School

The North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS) is a US state virtual school founded in 2002. It had 73,600 course enrollments in 2009-10, the second highest number of enrollments of any state virtual school; this represents a 369% increase since 2008-09.

NCVPS is "committed to raising achievement and closing learning gaps with 21st century innovation". It provides students with (supplemental) "expanded academic options" by offering test preparation, career planning, credit recovery, world languages and Occupational Course of Study (OCS) courses to North Carolina students.

Many courses are 100% online, or "textbook independent". Select courses do require use of textbooks and are thus not 100% online (however there is no in-person component). In some cases courses have been designed to accommodate use of any relevant textbook, while one in particular may be recommended.

The North Carolina Virtual Public School web site is at http://www.ncvps.org/.

More Details

North Carolina Virtual Public School was the second state virtual school in the US (after FLVS) to be funded based on a funding formula tied to the state’s public education formula. However, NCVPS is funded for 2010-11 based on 2009-10 enrollment figures, i.e. the funding does not map to student completion.

Courses utilise the Blackboard course management system. Teachers may utilise video, interactive whiteboards, wikis, "active worlds" and online discussion tools.

References

• North Carolina Virtual Public School web site, http://www.ncvps.org/
• "A National Primer on K-12 Online Learning", iNACOL, October 2010, http://www.inacol.org/research/docs/national_report.pdf

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