[REPOST] Article Notice – Sense of Irony or Perfect Timing: Examining the Research Supporting Proposed e-Learning Changes in Ontario
This entry was originally posted on the State of the Nation: K-12 e-Learning in Canada website. We wanted to alert readers to the fact that State of the Nation: K-12 e-Learning in Canada authors Michael Barbour and Randy LaBonte have published an article in the International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education that examines the research behind the […]
[REPOST] In Conversation with Stephen Hurley: Michael Barbour & Randy LaBonte – Sense of Irony or Perfect Timing: Examining the Research Supporting Proposed e-Learning Changes in Ontario
This entry was originally posted on the State of the Nation: K-12 e-Learning in Canada website. Earlier this week Stephen Hurley, as a part of his VoiceEd Radio show “In Conversation,” had a conversation with Michael Barbour and Randy LaBonte about the recent article published in the International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education about the announced […]
[REPOST] E-Learning and the “Board-by-Board Impact of Larger Class Sizes and Mandatory e-Learning”
This entry was originally posted on the State of the Nation: K-12 e-Learning in Canada website. 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 by […]
[REPOST] E-Learning and the Expenditure Estimates 2019-20: Ministry of Education
This announcement was originally posted on the State of the Nation: K-12 e-Learning in Canada website. This past week the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAOO) released its Expenditure Estimates 2019-20: Ministry of Education (the PDF of the full document is available here). E-learning figured prominently in the report, not because of the specific estimates related to e-learning, […]
[REPOST] State of the Nation: K-12 e-Learning in Canada – Special Report: E-Learning Class Size
This announcement was originally posted on the State of the Nation: K-12 e-Learning in Canada website. In March 2019, the Government of Ontario unveiled its vision for education through a policy entitled Education that Works for You – Modernizing Classrooms. From an e-learning perspective, the proposed policy called for a centralization of e-learning courses and […]