It seems these days all of the recent focus in the Canadian K-12 distance, online, and blended learning community has been on the proposed changes in Ontario (with some good reason to be honest). However, there have been interesting developments
News Release – Ontario Brings Learning Into The Digital Age: Province Announces Plan to Enhance Online Learning, Become Global Leader
As a follow-up to their 15 March 2019 announcement, the Government of Ontario issued a press release today under the title “Ontario Brings Learning Into The Digital Age: Province Announces Plan to Enhance Online Learning, Become Global Leader.” From the
People For Education – 2019 Conference e-Learning Panel
A few weeks back, the Ontario-based People for Education organization hosted their annual conference (you may remember the organization from the class size commentary that we posted here). One of the main sessions during the conference was a panel focused
NWTTA Profile: Northern Distance Learning
Over the past number of years, the annual State of the Nation: K-12 e-Learning in Canada report has featured the Northern Distance Learning program (and its pre-cursor, the Beaufort-Delta Education Council E-Learning Program) as one of the vignettes included in the
New Details About Ontario’s E-Learning Mandate
Two of the common themes in the commentary that have been provided by both CANeLearn and the researchers at the State of the Nation: K-12 e-Learning in Canada has been the success or failure of the e-learning mandate will be
E-Learning and the “Board-by-Board Impact of Larger Class Sizes and Mandatory e-Learning”
This past week, Ricardo Tranjan from Behind the Numbers posted a blog entry entitled The board-by-board impact of larger class sizes and mandatory e-learning. In that entry, Ricardo calculated “the impact of these changes on educators in each community, mapped
Online Learning News: Double-Digit Growth In Online Learning In Canadian Colleges And Universities
In their latest newsletter, the folks at Contact North announced the release of their latest report into online learning in higher education. Interesting to compare these results to what we see happening in the K-12 environment. Double-Digit Growth in Online
Funding Model Implementation: Online Learning (British Columbia – Working Group Reports)
Approximately one year ago, the State of the Nation: K-12 e-Learning in Canada researchers released “Funding and Resourcing of Distributed Learning in Canada.” While not produced as a formal part of the Ministry’s process, this report was written with the British
Final Reminder: 2019 Data Collection – Individual Program Survey
Greetings, I am writing to you as part of the State of the Nation: K-12 e-learning in Canada research project (see https://k12sotn.ca/ ), conducted in association with the Canadian eLearning Network (see http://CANeLearn.net ). The study began in 2008 and documents the state of Canadian K-12
Lead the Change Series – ISSUE No. 98 | September 2019: Q & A with Michael K. Barbour
The Lead the Change Series is an effort by the Educational Change special education group of the American Education Research Association. They describe it as: The Lead the Change Series features renowned educational change experts from around the globe, highlights promising