canelearn e-learning program roundup oct 2016

Canadian e-Learning Roundup: Sharing Program Spotlights & Research

Randy LaBonteCanadian eLearning Network

http://CANeLearn.net

 Take a Walk on the Digital Side - How Purposeful Use of Tech and Program Design Improves Learning

Canadian models integrating online & blended learning

About the Canadian eLearning Network

• CANeLearn is a pan-Canadian network of K12 online and blended learning schools and organizations

• Focus is on sharing resources, PD, research• Intent is to leverage our Canadian collective to

promote online and blended learning• http://CANeLearn.net

CANeLearn Board of Directors

• Michael Canuel, CEO of LEARN (Chair) - QC

• Terri Reid, Learning Services Coordinator, Black Gold Regional Schools (Vice-Chair) – AB

• Kevin Wttewaall, Director of Technology for Learning, Rocky View School Division (Treasurer) – AB

• Brett Cooper, Director, Alberta Distance Learning Centre (Director) - AB

• Alison MacDonald, Principal, Wapaskwa Virtual Collegiate (Director) – MB

• Todd Pottle, Coordinator, Ontario eLearning Consortium (Director) – ON

• Sue Taylor-Foley, Director of Learning Resources and Technology, Nova Scotia Education and Early Childhood Development (Director) - NS

• Bruce Weitzel, Lead for BC Learning Network (Director) - BC

CANeLearn Symposium

Why we are here (the promise…)• Join this discussion session to learn how

schools are shifting practice to create flexible and personal learning...

• A synthesis of successful principles from the programs will be the base for a discussion about how to improve your own program [practice].

What you will do different because of today?

Around the room….• From? Role?• Why here?• Your takeaway would be…

State of the Nation in Canada Report

Mix of province-wide & district-basedOnline Programs

Province-wide Province-wide & District District-based

YT AB BC

NB MB SK

NS QC ON

NL

PE (uses NB) FMNI Band-based

NU (uses AB) ON (2)

NT (uses AB) MB & AB (SK closed)

Completion Rate BC Public School Students

• (For students who take at least one DL course)

School Year Students taking 1 or more DL Course

Students not taking DL Course

% %

2009-10 80.9% 88.3%

2010-11 85.0% 86.6%

2011-12 86.5% 85.0%

2012-13 89.8% 85.3%

Innovation in Canada

The Inquiry Hub

e-Learning is…• Learner-centric• Instructor facilitates• Technology supports• From time constant,

– Mastery variable;• To mastery constant,

– Time variable

iNACOL Innovative Blended and Online Learning Practice Award Recipients ->

2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

QC -> AB -> BC -> ONhttp://canelearn.net/?s=iNacol+award&lang=en

CEA Innovation Awards

Alberta Overview

• Inspiring Education created an innovation vision• Shift from correspondence to blended using technology• Driven by improving engagement and results• Video conferencing provincial initiative (SuperNet) shifting to

web conferencing • More f2f and sync options both onsite and online• Google use (own servers – drive, docs, hangouts, classroom)• Curriculum redesign and High School Flex• Moodle user group• Emerging blendED group http://www.blendedalberta.ca/• Other factors??

Trending…1. Blended and online practices are blurring – it is more about learning

within flexible structures2. Transition from online to blended more difficult than from classroom3. Personalization and flexibility critical drivers in Canada4. Competency-based emerging in new curriculum5. Research focus on better data and exploring pockets of innovation

Online Blended Classroom

Personalized Blurred Partnerships

• BC: Navigate/NIDES, @KOOL/AVS embedded teachers, consortia/BCLN & AB• AB: Argyll/Palliser sync, ADLC partnerships, Moodle Hub sharing• ON: Centralized resources/tech and support, consortia & sharing• QC: LEARN shifting sync to async & gamification• NS/MB/NL: Centralized approaches, local partnerships

It is Just Learning After All…

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IssuesChallenges

InnovationLEADERSHIP

Conference Board of Canada Essential Skills

• Ability to think critically;• Communicate effectively;• Seek and manage information while solving

problems;• Adapt and continue to learn continuously; and• Work as part of a team in a project-based

focus.

http://www.conferenceboard.ca/topics/education/learning-tools/employability-skills.aspx

1. Roadblocks – List your top 52. Leveraging Curriculum Change – How? – Name 13. Organizational Models – What works in your

context? 4. Learning Resources & Design – What? Where?

How? Who?5. Supporting Teacher Practice – How? When?

Where?• Technological skills / Pedagogical skills

6. Strategies for Change – Name 3 you can do now

Table Talk: So how do you get there???

Blended – not Stirred…

• Blended– Campus migration to include online– Virtual only migration to face2face– Competency not time as THE Measure– Textbooks to digital assets– Teacher’s role from disseminator to facilitator– Bureaucratic silos to open practice– New paradigms of control and practice

• Stirred– Policy, Curriculum & Assessment– Funding Models– Top-down Leadership

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Go forth and master the learning!

• The difference between a master and a beginner:– The master has tried and failed more times

than– The beginner has tried

TRY! FAIL! LEARN!!https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/

Canadian e-Learning Roundup: Program spotlights & research

Randy LaBonteCanadian eLearning Network

rlabonte@CANeLearn.net

 Take a Walk on the Digital Side - How Purposeful Use of Tech and Program Design Improves Learning

Canadian models integrating online & blended learning

Thank you!

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•Randy LaBonterlabonte@canelearn.net@rlabonterlabonte23

http://CANeLearn.net