Virtual hybrid schools could be the disruptive technology, as Christensen calls it, to produce real reform in education.
Gates or someone else with billions to devote to education could build a national chain of
these virtual hybrid schools to compete with existing public and private schools.
Similarly, if
the virtual hybrid school is a bad model, then it won't attract students and compete with existing public and private schools.
It's true that Gates is already investing in the development and refinement of
the virtual hybrid school model, but a complete commitment to building new rather than reforming old would give him the potential to do what Rockefeller, Stanford, and others did to higher education.
Not exact matches
Among the most innovative and successful of the public - private
hybrids is the Florida
Virtual School (FLVS), founded in 1997 and operated by the Florida Department of Education.
Conventional,
virtual, and
hybrid schools might spend money on a student's instruction for a whole course or semester yet receive nothing in return.
In my own address to the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education this year, I reported that K - 12 online education options continue to expand, with students participating in site - based online labs,
hybrid courses, and part - and full - time
virtual options that are offered by a variety of providers including charter
schools, districts, state supplemental programs, corporations, and colleges.
He, along with Terry Moe, Clay Christensen, Paul Peterson, and others, envision large numbers of
hybrid virtual schools offering higher quality customized education at dramatically lower costs.
The truth is that
virtual schooling is more like a
hybrid of public, charter, and home
schooling, with ample dashes of tutoring and independent study thrown in, all turbocharged by Internet technology.
Most of our sister
schools are 100 %
virtual and with the help of knowing what works and what doesn't they are able to help the
schools that have the
hybrid component.
The Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) and Michigan
Virtual University (MVU) launched the inaugural High
School Counselor Postsecondary Planning Training Course last fall, where participating counselors completed an eight - month,
hybrid professional development experience that focused on the college - going process.
Join Michelle Rutherford and Kathie Bach and learn best practices behind implementing a successful blended,
hybrid, and
virtual summer
school program using digital curriculum.