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West Virginia Virtual School
The West Virginia Virtual School (WVVS) is a statewide virtual school located in the US state of West Virginia.
Created by the West Virginia Legislature on July 1, 2000, the mission of the Virtual School is to assure consistent, high quality education for the students of West Virginia.
Supplemental students may use the school to take courses online that are not offered in their local schools. Most take one course at a time; none are fully online students (i.e. all remain enrolled at their local, traditional schools). The WV Virtual School is not a diploma-granting institution; students are enrolled in, and graduated from, their local schools.
The local school must approve each distance learning course and facilitate registration of the course through the WVVS contact. Students may be required to take online courses on-site at their local school, depending on the school's decision.
Course content is available from Apex Learning, Aventa Learning, BYU Independent Study, Florida Virtual Global School, AMDG, Inc, Mountaineer Virtual and Virtual GreenBush.
The West Virginia Virtual School web site is at http://virtualschool.k12.wv.us/vschool/index.html
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/
- West Virginia Virtual School web site, http://virtualschool.k12.wv.us/vschool/index.html