The United States Distance Learning Association this week recognized the efforts of Laurel Springs School and its founder, Marilyn Mosley Gordanier. This award is the most prestigious in the world of distance learning and pushes Laurel Springs to a new level. If you would like to read about the award, go here.

As I have said before, if you want to know how to run a successful online school, look no further than Ojai, California.

I received this question in my email today. The student was wondering if there was a difference in that and an online high school. “Cyber high school” is one of those terms could have been the one that made it. Another one that was in the mix was “virtual high school.”

These are both terms for what are now primarily called “online high schools.” Perhaps the second most common would be that “virtual high school” one. I rarely see the “cyber” one anymore. For a while, though, people were attaching “cyber” to anything related to the Internet. While I won’t call the term dead because it is certainly still out there, it has suffered from overuse, that is certain.

However, for our purposes here, all three terms – online, virtual, cyber – are synonyms. There is no difference at all.