Resources
Last updated by Rachel Whalley
VLN Community Resource Links:
A clearinghouse area for VLNC resource collections. Click on the links below to access.
You can also contribute by uploading individual resources to the VLN group resources or LCO Handbook (where relevant)
Publications about the VLNC and online learning in NZ.
- Virtual Learning as an Impetus for Educational Change: Charting a Way Forward for Learning
in New Zealand - Students Experiences of Learning in Virtual Classrooms.
- From teletubbies to teleteacher.
- Teaching Under the Microscope - Trends in online learning.
- Video conferencing in distance learning: A New Zealand schools' perspective.
- An interview with Ken Pullar: Director of OtagoNet
- DEANZ Newsletter November 2010
- Online and blended learning rolling into New Zealand schools
- The first blended or hybrid online course in a New Zealand Secondary School: A case study
- Tracing International Differences in Online Learning Development: An Examination of Government Policies in New Zealand
- Students’ experiences of flexible learning options: What can they tell us about what they need for success?
- New forms of networked schooling are evolving – fast! Visionary leadership please
- Primary and Secondary e-Learning: Examining the Process of Achieving Maturity
- Kerry Stevens: The distribution of instructional leadership in elearning clusters: an ecological perspective
- Wayne Duncan: Understanding the nature and function of empathy in synchronous multimedia conferencing
VOL 17, NO 1 (2013): JOFDL SPECIAL ISSUE - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DISTANCE EDUCATION: EXPANDING THE KNOWLEDGE BASE IN THE SCHOOLS SECTOR
| Editorial Introduction | |
| Michael K Barbour, Keryn Pratt | i-ii |
| OtagoNet: One region’s model for virtual schooling | |
| Keryn Pratt, Ken Pullar | 1-11 |
| The FarNet journey: Effective teaching strategies for engaging Māori students on the Virtual Learning Network | |
| Michael K Barbour, Carolyn Bennett | 12-23 |
| A case study of blended teaching and learning in a New Zealand secondary school, using an ecological framework | |
| Pinelopi Zaka | 24-40 |
| Book Review - eLearnings: Implementing a national strategy for ICT in education, 1998-2010 | |
| Darren Sudlow | 41-43 |
| Book Review - Making the move to K–12 online teaching: Research-based strategies and practices | |
| David Adelstein | 44-45 |
| Interview with Eddie Reisch | |
| Hazel Owen | 46-55 |
The VLN Community - Home of the Learning Communities Online (LCO)
The Virtual Learning Network Community (VLNC) is a network of school clusters who collaborate to provide access to curriculum and learning opportunities for students through online learning.