“Opening” a New Kind of School: The Story of the Open High School of Utah

• Published in: The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
• Main Authors: Tonks, DeLaina, Weston, Sarah, Wiley, David, Barbour, Michael K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press (AU Press) 2013
• Subjects: K-12 online learning; cyber school; virtual school; open education; edu; scipo; Christchurch; Avian flu
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v14i1.1345; http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1066982ar

The use of online learning at the primary and secondary school level is growing exponentially in the United States. Much of this growth is with full-time online schools, most of which are operated by for-profit companies that use proprietary online course content. In this article we trace the develo...