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The Colorado Consortium of Online Schools
The Colorado Consortium of Online Schools is an emerging affiliation of online school providers working to find and harness synergies between themselves. The group intends to explore ways to share educational content, technology, and support resources among the group and with other Colorado school districts in the future.

Wiki Introduction  This wiki is a shared space for the participants in the Colorado Online Consortium. It is intended to provide a central repository of information relevant to those who are managing and/or developing online learning programs for public school districts in Colorado.

The central element of the wiki is referred to as the “Guidebook.” (see below) It provides profiles for each of the school district’s programs (note that not all district profiles are complete). Each district’s principal/director will be able to update the wiki as needed over time.

In addition, the “Discussion Topics” page will allow participants to post questions and share information with the group. Consider linking via RSS or email to this discussion board to keep current on the group’s discussions. (The initial discussion is a replication of a series of emails that responded to a question posed by one member).

Notes from Consortium meetings and dates for upcoming meetings will be posted on the “Meetings” page, when available.

The “Program Offerings Summary” and “Technology Summary” are provided to give a high-level view of the districts’ work.

The wiki is maintained by Stuart Adams who can be reached at sturadams@comcast.net, or through the wiki

The Guidebook

In January 2011, the group decided that a useful resource would be a “Guidebook” inventory of each of the participating school’s programs. This Guidebook should serve as a reference source for the members of the consortium. This is version 1 of that Guidebook.

The Guidebook includes profiles of the individual school districts and their online programs. These profiles provide answers to a series of questions regarding what each program offers, whose needs are targeted, how the program is constructed, funded and staffed. Appendix A provides the list of questions that served the basis of the interviews. The profiles were constructed from interviews with the leaders of each of the district’s programs. The results of those interviews were compiled and reviewed by each district for accuracy and completeness.

In addition to the profiles, summary information is presented, giving a high-level view of what the participating schools are doing, and what resources they are using. A phone directory is included in Appendix B.