This presentation describes how schools are shifting practice to create flexible and personal learning. A brief overview of e-learning in Canada will provide the background for learning more about several successful programs from across Canada. A synthesis of successful principles from the programs will be the base for a discussion about how to improve your own program. Outcomes include: • Awareness of specific emerging online and blended models; • Understanding policy and funding implications; and • How re-characterizing the “Carnegie Unit” opens new opportunities.

1. Canadian e-Learning Roundup:
Sharing Program Spotlights & Research
Randy LaBonte
Canadian eLearning Network
http://CANeLearn.net
Canadian models integrating
online & blended learning

2. 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

3. 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

4. CANeLearn Symposium
http://CANeLearn.net/Symposium/
Blending Boundaries: Leading Digital Disruption, Innovation & Equitable Learning
Featuring CEA Award Winners National & International Keynotes
Zoe Branigan-Pipe Navigate Team Michael Furdyk Remi Kalir
Structured dialogue & networking – Focus on blended & online learning
Early Bird Registration Closes Soon!
2017 CANeLearn Symposium &
BC Digital Learning Conference
April 5-7, 2017
Westin Bayshore Hotel
Gateway to Stanley Park
Vancouver BC

5. 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?

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

7. State of the Nation in Canada Report

8. Mix of province-wide & district-based
Online 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)

9. 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%

10. Innovation in Canada

11. e-Learning is…
• Learner-centric
• Instructor facilitates
• Technology supports
• From time constant,
–Mastery variable;
• To mastery constant,
–Time variable

13. iNACOL Innovative Blended and Online Learning
Practice Award Recipients ->
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
http://canelearn.net/?s=iNacol+award&lang=en

14. CEA Innovation Awards

15. 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??

16. Trending…
1. Blended and online practices are blurring – it is more about learning
within flexible structures
2. Transition from online to blended more difficult than from classroom
3. Personalization and flexibility critical drivers in Canada
4. Competency-based emerging in new curriculum
5. 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

17. It is Just Learning After All…
Campus Virtual
Classroom DE Programs
Onsite only Online only
Flexible
Learning
• Instruction & learning is
both onsite and online
• Some element of choice
in learning for students
Blended and Online Learning Trends
Emerging and Trending Shifts in Practices

18. 18
Issues
Challenges
Innovation
LEADERSHIP

19. 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/educati
on/learning-tools/employability-skills.aspx

20. 1. Roadblocks – List your top 5
2. Leveraging Curriculum Change – How? – Name 1
3. 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???

21. 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
• CC by 2.0 marketingmommy

22. 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!!
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23. Canadian e-Learning Roundup:
Program spotlights & research
Randy LaBonte
Canadian eLearning Network
rlabonte@CANeLearn.net
Canadian models integrating
online & blended learning
Thank you!

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•Randy LaBonte
rlabonte@canelearn.net
@rlabonte
rlabonte23
http://CANeLearn.net