K12 Virtual School GuiDe for Parents
A Parent's Guide to Choosing the Right Online Program
K-12 online learning is growing at 30% annually. Thirty-four states have state-led virtual school programs, eighteen states offer full-time online learning programs, while 70% of school districts offer at least one online course to students.
National Standards for Quality Online Programs
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This publication is designed to provide states, districts, online
programs, accreditation agencies and other organizations with a
set of over-arching quality guidelines for online programs in
several categories: leadership, instruction, content, support
services and evaluation.
National Standards for Quality Online Teaching
A publication designed to provide states, districts, online
programs, and other organizations with a set of quality guidelines
for online teaching in February 2008.
National Standards of Quality for Online Courses
The standards selected are based on the results of a research
review and survey of online course quality criteria. These quality
standards were evaluated and assembled into an easy to use
document for evaluating online courses with common benchmarks.