Socio-Cultural Analysis of Two Cases of Distance Learning in Secondary Education |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Niki?DavisEmail author Dale?S?Niederhauser |
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| Institution: | (1) Centre for Technology in Learning and Teaching, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3192, USA |
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| Abstract: | Virtual Schooling for primary and secondary students is becoming increasingly common across the United States. Although distance education has typically been used to address the needs of adult U.S. learners, its use with schoolchildren has been limited. The rapid development and diffusion of ICT has prompted advances in the use of distance education to serve these students educational needs—particularly those in remote rural settings. In this paper we analyse and contrast two case-studies that were gathered to inform researchers and practitioners of online schooling—a case in which two rural schools ‘coordinated’ the use of two-way interactive video to provide live synchronous learning, and a school ‘replacement’ model that provided an interactive online course for dispersed students with periodic live interactive synchronous learning sessions. Analysis drew on Cobb and his colleagues’ (2003) techniques to delineate communities of practice and Wenger’s (1998) work on boundary encounters, brokers, and boundary objects. |
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| Keywords: | virtual schooling information communication technologies (ICT) communities of practice curriculum management |
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