Ministère de
l’Éducation
Ministère de
l’Éducation
ONLINE LEARNING AND
TEACHING ACROSS
SCHOOLBOARD BOUNDARIES
Hubert Lalande, Consultant
hlalande@sympatico.ca

Au Menu! Ministère de
l’Éducation
• Ontario at a Glance
• Provincial e.Learning Strategy
• SCOT Project
• Available Courses
• Statistics
• Surveys

French Ontario de
Ministère
l’Éducation
• Population: 500 000 (5%)
• 1998: 12 French school boards
2008: 290 elementary schools (66 000 students)
2008: 88 secondary schools (24 000 students)
• 1999: New Curriculum
• Sept. 2000 : SAMFO Project
• Dec. 2006 : e.learning Ontario

Ontario’s e.Learning Strategy
Ministère de
l’Éducation
• December 2006
• Its « raison d’être… »
• Provincial Standards and Guidelines
• Provincial LMS & LOR
• Online Learning Communities
• Training and Professional Development

Benefits to Boards
Ministère de
l’Éducation
The provincial e-learning strategy provides school
boards with:
• Access to quality e-learning credit courses
• Access to quality classroom resources from
Kindergarten through Grade 12, in accordance
with the provincial curriculum
• Free access to the provincial Learning
Management System and the Ontario
Educational Resource Bank

Benefits to Boards
Ministère de
l’Éducation
• Access to customized courses that take into
account regional and local needs
• Access to specialized teachers and resources
in small, rural, and isolated schools where such
resources may not be readily available
• The possibility of collaborating with other boards
to enrol students in their e-learning courses

Benefits to Boards
Ministère de
l’Éducation
• Access to face-to-face and online professional
development for e-learning teachers
• Access to an online professional
learning community where teachers can share
their experiences and strategies

Ontario's Education Priorities
Ministère de
l’Éducation
• Student Success Strategy
• Learning to 18
• Literacy and Numeracy Strategy
• Rural Student Success Program
• High Skills Major
• Aboriginal Education
• Politique d’Aménagement Linguistique

Priorities of Ontario Education
Ministère de
l’Éducation
• Retaining and increasing enrolment
• Expanding course choices
• Reducing the gap in the number of single
courses offered in French & English schools
(53 vs101)
• Having 85% of students graduating from high
school

Role and Responsibilities of the CFORP
Ministère de
l’Éducation
Services provided by the CFORP in relation to
the e.Learning Provincial Strategy:
 Conceptualization and production
of selected courses and resources
 Management of online courses
 Professional development
 Online registration
 Access to online courses.

The SCOT Project
Ministère de
l’Éducation

The SCOT Project
Ministère de
l’Éducation
• An initiative of the 12 FLSB
• Subsidized by the Ministry of Education
• Pilot project from 2004 to 2006
• Managed by the CFORP for the 12 FLSB

The SCOT Project
Ministère de
l’Éducation
• Developed in the context of the provincial
e.learning strategy
• Involved 2 provincial consultation committees
• Allows students from more than one SB to take
the same course; students may be from one SB
and teachers from another

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l’Éducation

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l’Éducation
ONLINE TEACHING

Role and Responsibilities of the CFORP
Ministère de
l’Éducation
Services provided by CFORP in the context
of the SCOT project:
 Hiring of online teachers
 Registration for online courses
To online teachers:
 Tutoring
 Training

The SCOT Project
Ministère de
l’Éducation
• Each board supplies one subject
specialist teacher
• Schools provide local support to student

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l’Éducation
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The SCOT Project
Ministère de
l’Éducation
The SCOT project provides a teaching model that is
different from Virtual School :
• Student are enrolled in their home school
• Home schools still receive full funding for their
students
• Student remain in their home school to take
the online course

The SCOT Project
Ministère de
l’Éducation
• Online courses are part of the student’s
regular timetable
• Teachers work from their home school

The SCOT Project
Ministère de
l’Éducation
• Guidance counsellors have access to the online
registration system from their school
• An open registration process is provided.
• Registration per course:
Maximum of 45 students/teacher/semester
• Waiting list

The Dream Team!
Ministère de
l’Éducation

Online Teacher’s
Responsabilities de
Ministère
l’Éducation
• Teaching and evaluation
• Monitoring of students
• Communicating with parents,
local contacts, etc.
• Adaptation of course content

Logistic Ministère de
l’Éducation
Every online teacher is provided with:
• An office
• A laptop computer with
scanner/printer/etc.
• A 800 Phone line
• A High speed Internet connection
• Skype (pedagogical team)
• Adobe Connect (teacher/students)

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l’Éducation
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l’Éducation
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Testimonial
Monique Bélanger, CECLFCE
Provincial Online Teacher (SCOT Project)

The SCOT Project
Ministère de
l’Éducation
The Scot project offers many solutions by:
• Providing flexibility in a student’s timetable and
resolving scheduling conflicts
• Providing courses that are unavailable in
the student’s home school
• Giving students who can’t attend their home
school (health reasons, etc.) the opportunity to
take courses

Advantages Ministère de
l’Éducation
Flexibility:
• Anywhere and anytime
• More courses available
• For each board and school, 12 additional
specialist teachers available

Testimonial
Dominique Noël, Student, Grade 11

20 Courses for
Grades 9, 10, 11

17 Courses for Grade 12

Statistics

Statistics

Statistics

Survey (Dec.07)
• Response: 54.05% (227/420)
• Course started in Sept.: 71,36%
• Time Management:
 Up to date = 37%
 One week late = 25%
• Work load:
 Equivalent to regular course = 60%

Survey (Dec.07)
• Work place:
Regular classroom = 33%
• Communication:
 Email = 68%
 Phone = 19%
 Frequency : 1 to 5 per week = 88%
• Level of satisfaction reg. retroaction:
 Excellent = 46%
 Adequate = 36%

Testimony
Carole Lafrenière-Noël, parent d’élève

Ministère de
l’Éducation
Q&A

Contacts Ministère de
l’Éducation
Hubert Lalande
Consultant
(613) 747-8000 Ext 260
hlalande@sympatico.ca