The establishment of a virtual high school in Israel

Abstract

In this paper we have described the theoretical and practical frameworks that led to the establishment of a virtual high school in Israel. After a year of activity, there are clear indications that the Virtual School based on the model of a cooperative of schools has a place in the Israeli educational system. The teachers who graduated from the course have succeeded in creating interesting courses for students, while marketing the framework to students and their parents in the schools has gone well and even aroused enthusiasm. Additional schools are asking to join the cooperative. Nonetheless, the work remains great: We have to form a system of quality control for products; continue development of the technological environment so that it will be rapid, faithful and enabling; and especially examine and follow up on the learning of students and their ability to concentrate in this framework.