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= Jefferson County Schools = Contact: Judy Bauernschmidt (303) 982-6534

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= Program Descriptions: =

** Program 1: Jeffco’s 21st Century Virtual Academy – Supplemental/Hybrid ** This program provides online courses to students on a part-time basis. The courses are intended to supplement their traditional schedules and provide content that is otherwise unavailable to the student at his/her base school. The student spends most of school day in traditional face-to-face learning, but is able to participate in these classes on a per-course basis. Any high school student may take one to three of these courses and the reasons for participation include schedule conflicts, need for access to high achievement content, or content is unavailable at the students’ home-schools (e.g., Chinese).

The courses are delivered via the district-wide Blackboard LMS platform. In all cases, the student is supported and monitored by a Jeffco teacher who is fully licensed and trained as an online instructor.

The courses include integrated audio/video and full hypermedia presentation.

The school is funded by state funding dollars.

Number of Student Participants: 130 Students do not pay a fee to participate. The student provides the student’s workstation and Internet access.

**Program 2: Jeffco’s 21st Century Virtual Academy – Full-Time** This program provides students with a full-time online alternative to traditional face-to-face classroom experience. The program serves various groups of students including elite athletes (the program is fully NCAA certified) and home-bound students. A full curriculum is available to high school students and provides a full path to graduation and a Jeffco diploma.

The courses are delivered via the district-wide Blackboard LMS platform. In all cases, the students are supported and monitored by Jeffco teachers who are fully licensed and trained as online instructors.

The courses include integrated audio/video and full hypermedia presentation.

The school is funded by state funding dollars.

Number of Student Participants: 150. Students do not pay a fee to participate. J21VA is a public school so state funding pays for students. The student provides the student’s workstation and Internet access.

**Program 3: Jeffco’s 21st Century Virtual Academy – Credit Recovery** This program provides a credit recovery alternative to students on a supplemental basis. The student is expected to carry a full traditional course load along with the credit recovery courses. The sessions are offered 5 times per year and the student has 20 weeks to complete each course. A menu of courses is available to high school students; each supports a full path to graduation and a Jeffco diploma.

The longer time period to complete is intended to allow students additional flexibility and support a somewhat more self-paced program.

The courses are delivered via the district-wide Blackboard LMS platform. In all cases, the student is supported and monitored by a Jeffco teacher.

The courses include integrated audio/video and full hypermedia presentation.

The teachers are funded by tuition.

Number of Student Participants: 500. Students pay a fee of $150/course to participate. The student provides the student’s workstation and Internet access.

**Program 4: Jeffco’s Blended Learning Model – OLL as a Supporting Resource** This blended learning program allows classroom teachers to use Jeffco’s online learning resources to support the traditional learning mode in the classroom. The online resources can be used as a virtual textbook, a collaboration tool, for homework, or to provide students with additional practice in the content area. The student remains in the classroom under the tutelage of the regular classroom teacher. By integrating the high quality content from the online resource with the “high touch” teacher involvement, this approach creates a truly innovative and effective learning environment.

The courses include integrated audio/video and full hypermedia presentation.

Number of Student Participants: 7500+ district-wide. The schools provide the students’ workstations and Internet access within their own schools.

**Program 5: Jeffco’s Blended Learning Model – OLL as a Supporting Resource** In this model, the teacher, typically working with a large classroom of students, can divide the class into cohorts and alternate the cohorts between online instruction and traditional face-to-face instruction. (While the teacher attends to one cohort “live” the other cohort works with the Jeffco online learning resources). The teacher can, thus, deliver a more differentiated learning experience to the students. There is a gaining interest among Jeffco teachers towards this model of instruction.

The courses are delivered via the district-wide Blackboard LMS platform. The courses include integrated audio/video and full hypermedia presentation.

Number of Participants: As many as 500 teachers are using this model.

Some schools within the Jeffco District are using online resources as a credit recovery approach. In this case the student works in a standard 18 week semester to complete coursework and receive credit.
 * Program 6: Jeffco’s Blended Learning Model – School-based Credit Recovery **

**Number of Student Participants: same number as the J21VA credit recovery number** Jeffco’s 21st Century Virtual Academy provides these courses from a central data center using the Blackboard learning management system. In addition to providing courseware via the LMS, additional resources are provided using the Blackboard Collaborate synchronous learning system and other collaborative learning tools. The technology is supported primarily by Jeffco 21st Century Virtual Academy, then by the Jeffco Public Schools data systems group and finally, by the vendors.

Slightly more than 50% of Jeffco’s online courseware has been develop in-house, the remainder provided by 3rd party providers. Among the 3rd party providers is Florida Virtual Schools, with whom Jeffco holds a perpetual license, allow them to customize and realign the content and use Jeffco teachers to deliver the courses. Jeffco has not yet published its cost-per-student data.

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