Hello, Katherine Springford from Parkland College, Yorkton, Saskatchewan. I'm an instructional mentor, helping mostly with technology in classrooms - hi Frank!!

Happy day!

Welcome Katherine! Glad you are able to join us.

I have hair in that picture!

I am curious about what other types of programs and schools are doing/using: what's going well and what's challenging.

Apologies for the delay in getting here!

Next to Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island, the OELC model is one of the most highly synchronous in Canada.

Keep in mind last year all of Ontario had ~139,000 students engaged in e-learning, when listening to Jon’s current numbers.

As Claude mentions… All classroom teachers in the province of Ontario can use the LMS and the asynchronous course content.

CAVLFO is creating and updating French course content in Ontario, similar to how LEARN creates and updates English courses in Quebec.

Public Catholic education is available in several Canadian provinces… These include Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

We use Brightspace at Parkland College - great platform!

Yes, the cooperation that happened with really ALL Ontario school boards - English and French, public and public Catholic - was impressive.

Yeah, the DeLCs, eLCs, and/or TeLECs were just a great resource!

Kind of like what Ontario wanted to do with TVO/TFO, but Ontario eventually backed down.

https://www.alberta.ca/online-learning.aspx

This is one of the things that teachers unions across the country have been interested in… Ensuring that online teachers are evaluated in an equitable and fair way given the context of their teaching.

Quality of resources in distance education programs varies widely across the province.

Actually, that's not quite true in Alberta.

School divisions have their own collective agreements that dictate salary - these can vary.

Thank you for the interesting discussion.

Thanks!

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