{"id":14265,"date":"2011-01-26T18:42:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T23:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=14265"},"modified":"2011-01-26T18:42:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T23:42:40","slug":"george-washington-university-puts-its-name-on-web-based-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/26\/george-washington-university-puts-its-name-on-web-based-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"George Washington University puts its name on Web-based high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/01\/22\/AR2011012203872.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GWU puts its name on Web-based high school<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from The Washington Post by<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">George Washington University has opened a private college-preparatory  high school that will operate entirely online, one of the nation&#8217;s first  &#8220;virtual&#8221; secondary schools to be affiliated with a major research  university.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The opening of a laboratory-style school under the banner of a  prestigious university generally counts as a major event among parents  of the college-bound. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwuohs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">George Washington University Online High School<\/a>, a partnership with the online learning company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12.com\/\">K12 Inc.<\/a>,  is competing with brick-and-mortar prep schools and with a small but  growing community of experimental online schools attached to major  universities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Online learning may be the next logical step in the evolution of  university &#8220;lab&#8221; schools, an ongoing experiment in pedagogy. Online  instruction holds the potential to transcend the factory model of  traditional public education, allowing students to learn at their own  pace. In the ideal online classroom, no lesson is ever too fast or too  slow, and no one ever falls behind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GWU puts its name on Web-based high school &#8212; from The Washington Post by George Washington University has opened a private college-preparatory high school that will operate entirely online, one of the nation&#8217;s first &#8220;virtual&#8221; secondary schools to be affiliated with a major research university. The opening of a laboratory-style school under the banner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,239,62],"tags":[566,4,251,601],"class_list":["post-14265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","category-k-12-related","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","tag-higher-education","tag-k-12","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-online-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14267,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265\/revisions\/14267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}