AERA 2017 – State of the Nation: K–12 e-Learning in Canada
The 2017 annual meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA) is currently being held in San Antonio, Texas. Yesterday Michael Barbour and Randy LaBonte had a roundtable presentation on the CANeLearn-sponsored State of the Nation: K-12 e-Learning in Canada report. The presentation is described as: State of the Nation: K–12 e-Learning in Canada In Event: Roundtable […]
CIDER Session May 3, 2017
While this session is not necessarily K-12 focused, the work that these individuals have been doing on blended learning has a great deal of relevance to the K-12 sector. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear CIDER Member, We invite you to our upcoming CIDER session on May 3, 2017. This free, […]
You Have A New Citation On: State of the Nation Study: K-12 Online Learning in Canada
This notice was posted on the State of the Nation: K-12 E-Learning in Canada blog yesterday… Note that many of the resources below are available open access at ResearchGate. As a part of the automatic system, ResearchGate sends out a notification whenever someone cites one of the works that a researcher deposits into the repository. Late last week […]
Webinar: 4/26 at 2pm EDT – Opportunities With Quality Matters And MVU
Note this webinar on Quality Matters (QM) tomorrow. For those not familiar, QM is a systematic, research-validated process to determine and improve the quality of online and blended course design. In fact, one of our institutional members – the Alberta Distance Learning Centre – uses QM in their course design process. Ensuring quality in K-12 […]
2017 Canadian Network for Innovation in Education Conference
There is approximately one month before the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education conference. While this conference (and this organization) has historically been focused on the post-secondary, the organization does describe itself as: CNIE connects educators, administrators and practitioners in a bilingual, pan Canadian network. Our group promotes research and advances in both open and […]
Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute Just Uploaded A Video
Last week Verena Roberts presented some of the research that she has done with blended teachers in Michigan. While the research is focused exclusively on teachers in Michigan, it has many parallels for our blended learning practice here in Canada. It is also a good illustration of a Canadian educator doing research in the US, […]
Call For Images From CANeLearn Events
As you may know, we have a Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/CANeLearn/ In an effort to further develop our social media presence, in this case our Facebook page, we are asking anyone who may have images that they have taken from any CANeLearn-sponsored or CANeLearn-partnered event to send them to Randy LaBonte (rlabonte@new.canelearn.net) or Michael Barbour (mkbarbour@gmail.com). […]
BOLTT 2017 – Call for Presentations / Workshops
Note this call for proposals from one of our member organizations – the Ontario eLearning Consortium (OeLC). BOLTT – Bringing Online Teachers Together Date/Time Date(s) – 13/10/2017 7:30 am – 3:30 pm Location Intercontinental Toronto Centre Categories OeLC 2017 BOLTT (Bringing Online Teachers Together) CONFERENCE #BOLTT17 An annual faced-paced conference that focuses on the needs […]
Announcing the CANeLearn YouTube Channel
Over the past two weeks we have been busy transferring our recorded content to our new YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZVrsvfsX_QXLF7n5zCVrSA In addition to recordings from the recent CANeLearn Symposium, recordings of previous CANeLearn webinars, and even a recording from our 2012 K-12 Online Leaders Summit. Additionally, CANeLearn has been actively working with its partners at the Michigan Virtual […]
Elizabeth Murphy Uploaded "Asynchronous And Synchronous Online Teaching: Perspectives Of Canadian High School Distance Education Teachers" And 4 Other Papers
These notices were posted last week by Michael Barbour on his blog. Note the multiple articles focused on Canadian K-12 online learning and are all available for free (once you create a free account). Hi Michael, Elizabeth Murphy uploaded papers on Academia.edu. Asynchronous and synchronous online teaching: Perspectives of Canadian high school distance education teachers […]