EDTECH597 – List Entry: Preparing K-12 Rural Students To Learn Online

On Monday, in my EDTECH597 – Week 4 entry, I indicated that today I would post a list entry to model for my Boise State students. I described a list entry as an entry “that provides a list of things. A list of links could be described as a list of things, hence the overlap in these kinds of entries. Personally, I see List Entries as lists of non-web-based things. Some bloggers will provide lists of books or articles they would recommend or the top # of apps for some mobile device or their # favourite movies. The list can be about anything at all really.”

In previous years I have written a top # entry to illustrate the “List Entry.”  However, in this case I thought it appropriate to post a set of resources. Last week I was corresponding with a graduate student who was just finishing their Master’s degree and about to enter into a Ph.D. program. They were interested in K-12 online learning in rural jurisdictions and, after some back and forth to figure out what they were really driving after, we came to the conclusion that:

“I am really interested in how we do or don’t prepare K-12 students to be able to learn in an online environment.”

As such, I provided him with the following list of resources:

Rural K-12 Online Learning

1. Barbour, M. K. (2007). Portrait of rural virtual schooling. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 59. Retrieved on February 11, 2007 from
   http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/cjeap/articles/barbour.html
   
2. Barbour, M. K., & Hill, J. R. (2011). What are they doing and how are they doing it? Rural student experiences in virtual schooling. Journal of Distance Education, 25(1). Retrieved from
   http://www.jofde.ca/index.php/jde/article/view/725
   

Skills Necessary for K-12 Online Learning

1. Roblyer, M. D., & Marshall, J. C. (2002-2003). Predicting success of virtual high school students: Preliminary results from an educational success prediction instrument. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 35(2), 241-255.
2. Roblyer, M. D. (2005). Who plays well in the virtual sandbox? Characteristics of successful online students and teachers. SIGTel Bulletin, (2). Retrieved from
   http://web.archive.org/web/20060930130650/http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Membership/SIGs/SIGTel_Telelearning_/SIGTel_Bulletin2/Archive/2005_20067/2005_July_-_Roblyer.htm
   
3. Roblyer, M. D. (2006). Virtually successful: Defeating the dropout problem through online school programs. Phi Delta Kappan. 88(1), 31-36.
4. Roblyer, M. D., Davis, L., Mills, S. C., Marshall, J., & Pape, L. (2008) Toward practical procedures for predicting and promoting success in virtual school students. American Journal of Distance Education, 22(2), 90–109.

Support for K-12 Online Learners

1. Barbour, M. K., & Mulcahy, D. (2004). The role of mediating teachers in Newfoundland’s new model of distance education. The Morning Watch, 32(1). Retrieved from
   http://www.mun.ca/educ/faculty/mwatch/fall4/barbourmulcahy.htm
   
2. Barbour, M. K., & Mulcahy, D. (2009). Beyond volunteerism and good will: Examining the commitment of school-based teachers to distance education. In I. Gibson et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (779-784). Norfolk, VA: AACE.
3. Roblyer, M. D., Freeman, J., Stabler, M., & Schneidmiller, J. (2007). External evaluation of the Alabama ACCESS initiative: Phase 3 report. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education. Retrieved from
   http://accessdl.state.al.us/2006Evaluation.pdf
   
4. de la Varre, C., Keane, J., & Irvin, M. J. (2010). Enhancing online distance education in small rural US schools: A hybrid, learner-centred model. ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 18(3), 193-205.
5. Hannum, W. H., Irvin, M. J., Lei, P.-W., & Farmer, T. W. (2008). Effectiveness of using learner-centered principles on student retention in distance education courses in rural schools. Distance Education, 29, 211-229.
6. Irvin, M. J., Hannum, W. H., Farmer, T. W., de la Varre, C., & Keane, J. (2009). Supporting online learning for Advanced Placement students in small rural schools: Conceptual foundations and intervention components of the Facilitator Preparation Program. The Rural Educator, 31(1), 29-36.
7. de la Varre, C., Keane, J., & Irvin, M. J. (2011). Dual perspectives on the contribution of on-site facilitators to teaching presence in a blended learning environment. Journal of Distance Education, 25(3). Retrieved from
   http://www.jofde.ca/index.php/jde/article/view/751/1285
   

If you have others that you’d like to suggest, feel free to leave them in the comments area.  I’ve instructed the student in question that I would be posting this entry and that he should monitor it for other suggestions.