Virtual High School Global Consortium

WORK IN PROGRESS AS OF 5 SEPT 2011

The US-based Virtual High School Global Consortium (VHS) was founded in 1997. It is a non-profit consortium that offers high school courses to students worldwide, and mostly to students within the US. Its offices are located in Massachusetts, US.

VHS students typically access their (asynchronous) online courses from within their local, traditional schools. Courses are mostly supplemental, focusing on Advanced Placement, honors level, remediation and credit recovery.

Member schools pay an administrative fee and pay for professional development. The total 2010 student enrollment in "NetCourses" was 15,237. There were 770 member schools, from 34 US states. The Virtual High School Global Consortium web site is at http://www.govhs.org/.

The web site is at http://www.govhs.org/

More Details

The Virtual High School has 51 non-US members (international schools).

Students do participated in organised online "classes" which does not exceed 25 students.

As noted on the VHS web site:

Schools can join VHS as Individual School Members or Student-Only schools. Individual School Members participate in VHS by freeing a high school teacher one period a day to teach a VHS course online. Student-Only schools do not have a teacher teaching a VHS course, but only have students taking VHS courses. VHS also accepts individual students

VHS is "in the Massachusetts Virtual High School" - an entity about which little discrete information exists.

Most participating schools sponsor one VHS course, allowing 50 students (per year) to take one online course through VHS.

References

• "A National Primer on K-12 Online Learning", iNACOL, October 2010, http://www.inacol.org/research/docs/national_report.pdf
• "Keeping Pace With Online Learning: An Annual Review of Policy and Practice", Evergreen Education Group, 2010, http://kpk12.com/reports/
• Virtual High School Global Consortium web site, http://www.govhs.org/

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