File:Deliverable VISCED D2.5 Final List of Exemplars v1.0.pdf

The VISCED workplan required 200 exemplars. We have included 272 in this deliverable, in narrative form, ranging from brief notes to more detailed entries. We should stress that this list is representative and not comprehensive (except in the EU). A number of the exemplars are case studies or mini-case studies in Deliverable 3.7. However the work to create this report has led us to identify 18 more entries which are thorough enough to quality as micro-studies.

The current state of our research has identified around 500 virtual schools and colleges across the world. More than 300 of these are in the USA and around 30 are in Canada. Even outside north America we currently have identified around 150. Of these 86 are in Europe. Australasia has at least 20. There are relatively few in Africa. Asia almost certainly has more than we have identified but China has not been one of our study countries. There appear to be surprisingly few in Oceania and the Caribbean and indeed across many multi-island nations where they might be expected.