Case Study
The Virtual High School
D2L CASE STUDY The Virtual High School Non-profit Organization: Bringing ASL to online learners through video Teaching American Sign Language online with innovative video learning capabilities Since its inception, The Virtual High School (vhslearning.org/) has given high-school and middle-school students more learning choices through its catalog of more than 200 unique online STEM, humanities and Advanced Placement courses. Recently, the nonprofit leveraged D2L ’s Brightspace platform and courseware to develop a new course in American Sign Language (ASL), harnessing D2L ’s cutting-edge video tools to help students and teachers from the hearing and deaf communities interact and gain new cultural perspectives. AT A GLANCE Student Number: 18,000+ Interviewees: • John Englander, As