Why Students Chose Virtual or Hybrid Schools After the Pandemic

Virtual education has been steadily growing since the late 1990s. Early research was primarily focused on the comparative studies between brick-and-mortar schools and virtual or hybrid schools. While the research over the past two decades has grown substantially and now includes broader topics such as for whom virtual education seems to work well and under what circumstances, there is little research regarding virtual schools and school choice. This paper uses research on school choice in home and charter schools, while there was much overlap, a new category surfaced that was unique to virtual and hybrid education. This research found that many parents opt into virtual or hybrid education in order to provide more flexibility for their child. Flexibility came within four main categories- flexibility of time, flexibility of instruction and assessment, flexibility of pace, and flexibility of learning environment.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Kansas

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Holt, Jennifer

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Mann, Bryan

• Education
• Education policy
• Educational technology
• distance education
• hybrid
• instruciton
• online learning
• remote learning
• Virtual education

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright held by the author.

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:18277

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/39044