TY - JOUR TI - "Opening" a new kind of high school: The story of the open high school of Utah AU - Tonks, De Laina AU - Weston, Sarah AU - Wiley, David AU - Barbour, Michael K T2 - International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning AB - The use of online learning at the primary and secondary school level is growing exponentially in the United States. Much of this growth is with full-time online schools, most of whichare operated by for-profit companies that use proprietary online course content. In this article we trace the development of, and philosophy behind, a full-time online school that uses open access software and open educational resources for course content. As more nations begin to put in place plans for primary and secondary education in the event of natural disasters (e.g., the Christchurch earthquakes) or pandemics (e.g., avian flu or H1N1), the availability of open online content is of critical importance. DA - 2013/// PY - 2013 DO - 10.19173/irrodl.v14i1.1345 VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 255 EP - 271 KW - Cyber school KW - K-12 online learning KW - Open education KW - Virtual school ER -