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 * Week 1 Monday December 7th **

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The course reading below was selected to give students in this course a basic understanding of the online learning systems and alternative forms of education that are being used to reach at risk students. Read the article about the Westwood Cyber highschool and their method for reaching at risk youth in their community. Please read the scheduled course reading for today and responed to the discussion question posted on the dicsussion board. Directions for the use of the discussion board listed below in the "For Discussion" section. Online discussion posts must be completed in the institution library during your scheduled unit library time. The library schedule gives each participating student the chance to post up to eigth responses.

**Course Readings ** To open and read the sponsored links, double click on the highlighted portion of the text.


 * iNACOL Research Committee Issues Brief: An Exploration of At-Risk Learners and Online Education (April 2010)@http://www.inacol.org/research/research.php

To complete the learning activity for this weeks assignment, post your reflection for comment by clicking on the discussion tab at the top of the page. The discussion page wil have a discussion question posted to inspire your thoughts about the course readings for this week. Please post at lease one response to the proposed question and respond to a minimum of two of your fellow classmates responses for discussion. Please have all discussion responses complete befor the next class meeting on December 11 at 9:00pm.
 * For Discussion**