Alabama Online High School

Alabama High School on the Internet, a project of the research program and rural services Program for Rural Services and Research at the University of Alabama. This school is the service provider to schools in Alabama State Alabama public schools, and enable the school principals from the state register their schools and their students in it.
Teachers and learners websites:
In this school can be for teachers of Alabama Certified (Certified teachers) access to their shares at any time of day or night from any location they find it and access the World Wide Web, and can be for the teacher to schedule students to attend the share at any time and from anywhere via an Internet connection, Students can access the online course content and assignments, and the bilateral interaction with the teacher-mail, and there is prompt (onsite mentor) (location coordinator) a resident of the location of the beneficiary school student, a coach and is supported by the School of Alabama, be present with the students. The student completed 140 hours of connection is required for each decision is supported as specified in the state of Alabama, and the school principal beneficiary is the one who determines whether the student has completed the quorum of these hours

Study method

The School AOHS on education simultaneous asynchronous) (learning a term that refers to the nature of the meeting between the student and teacher-mail. Students working on a schedule prepared by the school, teachers electronic respond and duties of students every day, but at different times of the day, Valjdol not "sync" but the courses simultaneously , so there is flexibility in scheduling courses and AOHS do not follow any kind of tables, each school sets specific start and end dates according to the evaluation, schools have to meet according to the type of evaluation.
Delivery is the work of students, and correcting all grades of students go through the decisions of the school gate AOHS, without the need for any e-mail or contact the teacher-mail, only offers students daily chore for the teacher-mail, and required the teacher-mail that required each student to work every day. The location of the school directed the resident beneficiary (coordinator of the Site) is a link between students and teachers, electronic, and supervisor of the activities of students and their attendance and grades. And use multiple forms of assessment, depending on the nature of the decision.
The student must complete its work in the school under the gaze directed the resident site (Site Coordinator), while the students home ((Homebound students, or other students who are working from alternative locations, they perform homework under the supervision of the local manager of the school.
The Alabama school rehabilitation and adoption of electronic teachers after completing the training successfully AOHS online. And school teachers adopt these websites only for the teaching provided by the decisions.

Required equipment for the school in Alabama

The equipment required for decisions of the Alabama School of simple electronic and available in almost all schools, during the share AOHS, each student must be connected to the Internet Calculator personal equipped with the following specifications:
Internet connection (preferably a high-speed connection), Internet browser (preferably Internet Explorer), Floppy Drives to save copies of your duties, sound card and speakers or a headset.
The Required Software: Adobe Reader files include Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash Player Macromedia Flash Player, player sounds Real Player.
Special courses, such as foreign languages ​​and some math and science courses, may require other requirements such as calculators and microphone.

® What is the benefit derived by the student from school?

1. That students in small rural schools with limited teaching resources will be able to take core courses and options the task.
2. Enable many of the students in the state who do not have access to advanced diploma because of the lack of her teachers.
3. They also benefit students who wish to complete a course or degree calculating lost. Schools and alternative schools, summer school courses used regularly.
The students have to take care of the individual teacher websites on a daily basis, and this does not always happen in the traditional classroom, which is important for many students

Florida Virtual School

Florida Virtual School started with Florida Virtual School activities in August 1997 as a bridge between the two schools regional governmental Orange County Public Schools and School Alachua County, which have taken off in the space of the Internet in 1996, an educational card 15 and served in management positions, education and development.
The task of the project is to develop a complete high school via the Internet by the year 2001 and include the student services to enable students to transition successfully to post-secondary institutions and to the field of work.
To maintain the performance, content of courses has been designed to match the requirements of the Management Standards Florida Sunshine Florida Sunshine State Standards and the standards of other important competitions such as the SCANS supported by both education and professional communities ([9]).

• Fact Sheet for a school FLVS:
Name: Florida Virtual School The Florida Virtual School ([10])
• functions of the school:
The mission of the Florida Virtual School is to provide students with educational opportunities based on high technical quality to gain knowledge and skills necessary for success in the century in 1921.

• areas and underserved student category:
FLVS School covering all schools of the Florida's 67, in addition to schools, the constitutional charter, and private schools non-public, and students houses homeschoolers, and the school serves students from the U.S. and other countries, and serves the student category for phases 8-12.
You have exceeded the number of students enrolled in school 8200 students for the academic year 2001/2002, shows the registration year 2002/2003, more than 10.000 students, and free courses for students of the state of Florida, but the introduction of fees for students is the state of Florida.
School offers Florida online more than 65 planned for the academic year 2002/2003, which contains the decisions of the honors of honor and 11 decision determining the advanced level Advanced Placement.

• Teachers websites:
Energy School, which is composed of more than 100 teachers living along the state of Florida. All FLVS teachers have supported Florida Teaching Certificate are eligible in the area they teach. He has fourteen educators from the adoption of the National Teacher Certification National Teacher Certification.
• Method of study:
All decisions of the school are sent across the Internet, and to increase student success in courses, offering them a variety of existing sources on the Internet, and existing sources on the technology, and traditional sources, and connects teachers with students and parents by mail, phone, e-mail groups and online chat

Electronic Charter School - ECS

school's overall mission is the ECS ([11]):
1. Take advantage of current technology, and remove barriers of time and place material.
2. Increase educational opportunities for all students, and the development of rich learning environments, cooperative and dynamic.
3. Care of high-order thinking skills of organization, facilitating the development of the level of lifelong learners in the Information Age
◙ educational features and style of study in school:
The school offers its students the following services:
1. Detailed lesson plans to achieve the needs and wishes of each individual, and qualified teachers.
2. Education projects based on Project-based learning.
3. Tests evaluate the state of Kansas.
4. Standardized tests such as the Terra Nova tests
5. Lent computers for students within the state only to communicate the decisions of the school, courses and offer them for free, but students who live outside the state of Kansas and at least 60 miles from the city of Elkhart. Vivrd their teaching duties and provides them with a computer. The courses provided for registration must include at least five of the students and the state of Kansas before opening them to students outside the state.
6. There is a toll free number provides administrative and technical support (technical) hard disk.
7. Encourage parents and students to participate in the education of their children through direct contact with teachers through e-mail or phone and record grades online.
8. Participation of students and parents in the management of the ECS site through membership or affiliation as representatives of team management site.
Is contact the school via the student login to the site .. the site also offers students an educational day when flash technology for one of the topics the different courses.

Fourth: The Salem School and Caesar on the Internet

Salem-Keizer Online (SK Online)
School site on the Internet ([12]):
(Http://skonline.org/ or http://skonline.salkeiz.k12.or.us/)
SK Online School Online is a program alternative to the method of the sender through the Internet mainly for students who live in and around the public school Public School District (24-J). And to provide education via the Internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week to any student at the age of school needs Teaching precedes the curriculum or teaching Therapeutic acceleration or remediation, or an average of a few, or has conflicts in the table in his school formal, or has the skills of a limited study taught in English or study at home. was the first beginning of a Salem-Keizer School Online in July 1999.

◙ Target learners:
Any student of school age who may have had one of the following requirements:
1. Shares advanced from the curriculum or therapeutic course acceleration or remediation,
2. Student at home.
3. Average of a few.
4. Has conflicts in the table in the regular school atmosphere.
5. Special needs instruction.
In addition, the pattern of online education in line with students with health defects, and intensive courses for young students who corresponds to the pattern of education is better with the nature of self-directed nature of online learning.
For students outside the School Salem, Caesar, is teaching an educational agreement within the area of ​​school fees .

Method of Instruction:

Proud of this school that cheating is the least problems, and attribute that to several methods, including: the use of learning-based projects at project-based learning rather than activities and methods of examinations of the earth. Also used interviews and face-to-face with students and banks, examinations, and appreciation of self-selection Self-selected grading is that students choose in some courses appreciation they seek for it if they choose to accelerate their path estimate is less than A Fissebzlon less work rather than how the work done with lower quality, and there Decisions based on the given frequent opportunities for the student to achieve success through re-work that has not lived up to the expected level to the student to modify it without delay the rest of the class. Another way to include a large number of methods of personal reflection, discussions, and applications on the article. This kind of work is difficult to copy

Futures International High School

The idea of ​​school:
Dr. Karen Bishop established a school of the future high school in 1985 in Southern California for the alternate to the traditional secondary school. School of the Future program is based on the concept of teaching people the individual to a person in a learning environment blatant disregard.
The affected school of the future university famous English University of Oxford, in Oxford there is no classrooms, the students learn by meeting with teachers individually, have been influenced by Dr. Bishop model of teaching so they chose this system for the school of the future.
In the past fifteen years, has grown up to become a school of the future in the three regions is Oceanside, Mission Viejo, and San Diego (www.futures.edu) The secondary school of the future world Second question is a component of the community schools of the future, which use the power of the Internet to spread the benefits and understandable approach school of the future for students around the world.
The educational philosophy of the secondary school of the future effectively, which is unique for two reasons:
- The teaching is done on the basis of one teacher for each student, and this way of teaching proved to be very effective in stimulating the private sector of the community of high school for success in school.
- That students can schedule their shares with their teachers in non-traditional times. This flexibility is ideal for students participating in other activities such as players or Olympic Fitness skits youth ([14]).


- Method of study:

Students receive instruction alive person to person via the Internet using a technology video conferencing, and management system allows courses safe online with the participation of the student or the parent or teacher by enabling them to access assignments, grades and progress reports performance for each shareholder to pay stakeholder, and the fact that education is unilateral, the duties reflect the style learning and personal needs of each student, and the efforts of faculty interested in preserving and encouraging, it has remained the school of the future secondary successful method of teaching individual for 15 years, has established a high school world is based on the same pattern and curriculum, and the system of open-registry allows students to start business quarterly at any time year.

- Adoption of School:

Global High School is accredited by the Accreditation Committee, Council Training and Distance Learning Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council. In addition, it has secured agreements with the formulation with international universities to ensure student admission into their programs when they complete the program successfully HIS.

- How a student study-mail at this school?

Teaching solitary, so the student needs at least five hours of preparation per share to meet with the teacher. The students demonstrate proficiency in the whole concept of due before the start of the following: five units will include a quorum of fifteen to seventeen add a date to the time of preparation, and duties require the types of techniques, but not be limited in the preferred learning style for each student.

- How to Calendar:

Performance evaluation, and tests of skill standards, tests and teachers, and the ability to use the concept in the living environment of the whole process is part of the scale HIS, and to prepare students to live a life of self-sufficiency and achievement and the ability to solve problems.


- Why e-Learning?

Before rushing and encourage this type of education must be asked such a question. Can discuss some of the factors that encourage this type of education, including:
1. Increase the number of learners sharply can not school the usual absorbed all of us, may see some of that education is the usual need to give basic skills such as the Koran, reading, writing and arithmetic, but the reality shows that the schools began reeling from the numbers accumulated from learners, and we believe that this kind of education should be encouraged in the advanced levels (secondary school and beyond), but lower levels of education, this type of education may not suit her perfectly.
2. This is a major tributary of education to teach the usual, it can be to integrate this method with the usual teaching shall be in support of him, and in this case, the teacher may refer students to some of the activities or duties based on the electronic media.
3. Some see the occasion of this kind of education for adults who have been associated to the functions and nature of their work and do not allow them to come direct to the classroom.
4. Due to the nature of Muslim women and its association with family, we believe that this type of education is promising to educate housewives, and caring for homes and raise their children.

- Obstacles to e-learning:

Although Hamas educators e-learning, this type of education does not stop some of the obstacles, including:
1. Physical obstacles: such as non-proliferation of computers and the limited coverage of the Internet and the relatively slow, and the high price (although it began to fall, but still relatively high).
2. Human obstacles: the scarcity there is a great teacher, a master of "the art of e-learning," and that it is wrong to think that all teachers in schools that can contribute to this type of education.
3. Obstructions of order: That is not convinced a lot of decision makers in this type of education.

- The recommendations of the solutions in the way of e-learning:

Although the immediate difficulty for the implementation of e-learning due to the large Maiqath, there are some steps that may benefit from the haste in the near future, including:
• Expanding the scope of the Internet and circulated to all remote areas. Remote zones of scarce educational resources are most needed for this network that can compensate for (and through the mail method) the lack of capabilities and services that provide education in the schools of the cities.
• community awareness of the importance of this educational method, and it is not a substitute for the usual teaching as much as what is supportive and tributary to him.
• sensitize decision-makers of the importance to take advantage of this technology and will be provided by us of the potential of inexpensive and may be granted by us of the results, good learning, especially in literacy and education of children of remote areas, and those with special difficulties, and leaving school before completing secondary school, as well as housewives .
• Start the process steps applied in universities and research centers, with the launch of some of the e-schools model of government institutions during the first and through the private sector and under the supervision of official bodies II.
• directing graduate students to discuss current issues of e-learning.
• encourage the private sector to put this kind of education and the provision of formal support for it.
• uploaded to the official bodies such as the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Higher Education on the provision of controls

Business leaders sign up to Executives in Residence programme

The School’s International Advisory Board, supported by the School’s Career Development Service, has established the ‘Executive in Residence’ programme that commences this month. Five Executives in Residence have been put forward by the Board to lend their considerable experience and networks to students. Bill Thomas, Christine Miles, Nigel Doughty, Hilary Sears and Robert Wright have generously offered their time to students over the next term. The aim of the programme is to give students the opportunity to meet with senior executives from the School’s Advisory Board throughout the year to acquire career advice, networking contacts and discuss business ideas.
Commenting on the role, Bill Thomas (MBA 1992), Former Senior Vice President & General Manager at HP EMEA said: "The Cranfield Experience was extremely important in my career. It’s where I came to appreciate the skill set of a General Manager and the power of diversity. I am delighted to be able to support the School through the Executive in Residence programme and engage with the diverse talents that comprise the student body."

Cranfield win A.T. Kearney competition to mark International Women’s Day

A team of four Cranfield MBA students won first place in a competition organised by A.T. Kearney to celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2011. Students from a select set of top business schools were asked to compose a research piece about the lack of women represented at board level in Europe, the reasons behind this and the implications.
Cranfield was announced as the winner by television presenter and comedian Ruby Wax at a full-day event organised by A.T. Kearney to mark International Women’s Day. Competition finalists won an all-expenses paid trip to the conference in London and had the opportunity to meet and network with successful senior women from the world of business, sport and media. Congratulations to the winning Cranfield team which included: Evgeniya Anisimova, Adam Cox, Dacia Henzell and Akshay Khaitan.

Cranfield recognised as a Business Superbrand

Cranfield School of Management has been ranked 58th in this year’s list of the UK’s top 500 Business Superbrands.  The ranking which is produced by Superbrands, the global branding organisation and published in The Guardian, ranks the country’s top 500 Business-to-Business (B2B) brands.
The annual Business Superbrands ranking celebrates the UK’s strongest B2B brands.  Every year they commission an independent research process that asks a panel of experts and thousands of business professionals their opinion on the major UK B2B brands. 
Cranfield ranked above other UK business schools including Oxford Said, Cambridge Judge, London Business School, Cass and Manchester. 
Commenting on the ranking Professor Lynette Ryals of the School's Executive said: “This is a terrific result for Cranfield, reflecting the impact that our world-class research and executive development has on the organizations that we work with. Our brand is distinctive; it is about transformation – of individuals, of groups, and of organizations”.