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The Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance is an association of the chiefs of virtual programs that provides collegial support and collaborative opportunities to the individual members and member organizations to share resources, services, and expertise.

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Revised K-12 National Standards For Quality Online Teaching and Programs Released By Quality Matters And The Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance

A decade after the release of the National Standards for Quality Online Programs, the standards, along with the National Standards for Online Teaching, were updated to provide online K-12 schools, districts and programs with a new foundation for building quality online learning experiences.

VLLA Launches Spring 2019 Book Club

Join educators from across the country this spring to read, learn, communicate, and share with the book “UDL in the Clouds! How to Design and Deliver Online Education Using Universal Design for Learning”. Register now at: https://tinyurl.com/VLLABC2019

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Revised K-12 National Standards For Quality Online Teaching and Programs Released By Quality Matters And The Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance

March 5, 2019 -

The broad-based effort to create updated, flexible standards reflecting current best practices that contribute to student success provides a new foundation to build quality online learning experiences for K-12 students.

Rural Online Learning

Across the country millions of students are accessing online and blended courses while attending a physical school, an estimated 50% of districts are offering some online or blended learning options, and more than 250,000 students attend fully online schools. These opportunities, however, are not equally available to all students.
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Quality Online Courses

Quality Matters (QM) and the Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance (VLLA) are proud to announce a new partnership between QM and the VLLA to revise the National Standards for Quality Online Courses, Online Teaching and Online Programs, building upon the work started by The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL).