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CANARIE E-learning Program
ACCC Symposium on Technology-Enabled Learning
Victoria, BCFebruary 5-7, 2004
Jamie Rossiter Director, E-learning Program
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Overview of Presentation
> Why is e-learning important?> CANARIE’s roles
– CA*net 4– Applications programs
> CANARIE E-learning Program– Examples of projects– Lessons learned
> Future directions– Planning for next programs– Pan-Canadian E-learning Strategy
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Why is E-learning Important?
> Canada is moving from resource-based economy to knowledge-based economy
> This direction is imperative to continuing economic prosperity
> Formal education and lifelong learning are key:– Fewer jobs for unskilled workers– Many professions already requiring ongoing skills upgrading and
continuing education– Higher education strongly correlated to higher earning potential
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Challenges!
> Access– Location– Time– Disability
> Looming teacher shortages– e.g. 20,000 – 40,000 university professors needed by 2011– Similar issues in K-12, colleges
> Cost pressures– Driven partly by increasing health requirements
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Infrastructure Four generations of advanced research and education networks
Partnerships and communities Fifteen programs (>300 projects, >1000 participants) Current focus: advanced applications & sectoral collaboration
Brands International: Canadian leadership in advanced networks Domestic: CANARIE facilitation role
CANARIE’s Roles
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7
Years Core
Technology Initial
Capacity (Mb/sec)
Applications
CA*net 1990-1997
Leased Lines
0.056 Basic email and file transfer
CA*net 2 1995-2000
ATM 155 Web applications plus large file sharing
CA*net 3 1998-2002
Optical 5,000 Full audiovisual sharing plus collaborative computing and data environments
CA*net 4 2002-7 Lightpaths 20,000 Grids and other third-wave applications
Building CA*net
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Building Partnerships(1999-2004)
Program:
Total Funding
Number ofProjects
Number ofParticipants
E-learning
$29 Million
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265
E-business
$28 Million
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47
E-content(ARIM)
$6 Million
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66
E-health
$5 Million
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October 2003
Industry (receptors)
Minister of Industry
Government Laboratories
Universities & Colleges
Fourth Pillar Organizations
Links to
commercialization agents
Links to provincial & regional organizations
Strategic Investments in Enabling Technologies or Infrastructure
Return on Investment
Accountability
Information
Consensus-based Advice
Commitment Commitment
Commitment
Leadership Facilitation
Service
Leadership Facilitation
Service
Leadership Facilitation
Service
Fourth Pillar Organizations
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CANARIE E-learning Program
> Where can advanced networks genuinely add value to learning (on or off campus)?
– Focus on reducing structural barriers– Significant projects with potential national impact– All projects highly collaborative– Encourage synergy amongst projects– Strong evaluation component to each project
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E-learning Projects, LORs
> Learning Object Repositories– eduSourceCanada (and predecessor projects) – large, bilingual,
pan-Canadian prototype development project– TILE – LORs for people with disabilities– LOGIC – LORs for case-based teaching approaches– CMEC – Pan-Canadian Online Learning Portal – all
provinces/territories participating
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Why are LORs Important?
> E-learning content development is expensive and time consuming – LORs provide a mechanism to:– share content easily– update content that changes frequently– modify content – e.g. to another language– locate desired content quickly
> Elegant structure that promotes sharing of content without giving up control of curriculum– between jurisdictions, institutions, individuals– mirrors current network implementations
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E-learning Example:Learning Object Repositories
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eduSourceCanada Project
> A pan-Canadian testbed of linked and interoperable Learning Object Repositories
> Over 35 organizations from public and private sectors, anglophone and francophone, participating
> A forum for development of tools, systems, protocols and practices
> Based on national and international standards> Accessible to all Canadians, including those with
disabilities> Leading to uptake by Provinces/Territories and by industry
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E-learning Projects, DE
> New Organ’l Structures & Communities of Learners– Virtual Veterinary Medicine Learning Community – all 4
veterinary colleges sharing synchronous & asynchronous curriculum
– SportWeb – learning for amateur coaches across the country– Health Informatics Collaboratory – across 14 institutions
> Remote & Distant Learners– MusicGrid – K-12 music education over CA*net 4– RACOL – K-12 classroom education in N. Alberta over SuperNet– Llearn – second-language training online– Interactive Multimedia Learning System for Mathematics –
building upon The Learning Equation
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E-learning Projects, Workplace
> E-learning in the Workplace– TRADE – complex radar mapping technologies for staff & clients– E-LIVE – simulations for transit-system operators– ELLnet – leadership training for school trustees– Open Network Craft– how-to for remote network developers &
installers, including First Nations
> E-learning in health sector– PLP enabler & DCM.X – tools for health care professionals– 3 projects co-funded by HRSD Office of Learning Technologies
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E-learning Projects, PD
> Teacher Professional Development
– ABEL – K-12 teachers working in their classrooms using CA*net 4– Collaborative Content Creation Lab – post-secondary (college &
university) teacher development activities, content– University Collaborative Communities for e-Learning Adoption
(UCCELA) – facultydevelopment.ca and E-Kit/La Trousse professional development tools
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“E-learning to Learning”
> E-learning Program projects demonstrated their results– See CANARIE website for presentations
> Meeting-ground for emerging Canadian e-learning community– 325 attendees from across Canada, several countries, all levels of
education, training
> Plenary sessions:– Learning Object Repositories – from development to uptake – Expert panel discussion on a pan-Canadian e-learning strategy– Demos of key network-enabled projects
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Current Status of CANARIE
> Stand-alone CA*net 4 operation funded to 2007> Current project funds fully committed
– March 2004 “hard” completion
> Government of Canada planning– Possible transition support in March 2004 budget– Election, spring 2004– New policies, fall 2004 - “SFT2”– “Regular” budget early 2005
> CANARIE working closely with Industry Canada to determine appropriate role
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Education Committee – Preliminary Feedback
Needs of Learning
Organizational change (institutions & workplace) For both on-site and distance learning
Faculty and learner tools that are: Multi-functional Support a variety of delivery models Provide integration, security, authorization, personalization Less text driven, more intuitive and smarter
Learning Object Repositories Positive results thus far, but still embryonic Need to be tailored to knowledge, sector by sector
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Preliminary Feedback
Potential roles for CANARIE
Bridge between governments (including Provinces/Territories), academe and industry Honest broker of information on intelligent infrastructure Organizational change agent in the development of new
organizational models
Targeted funding programs for sustainable applications development & testing
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Preliminary Feedback
Potential roles for CANARIE (cont’d)
Fund large proof-of-concept projects leading to implementation Beyond startup or pilot to sustained, operational systems From institutional periphery to core Sufficient scope and scale to interest decision-makers (deans)
Aggregating communities of interest Practitioners and researchers, early adopters
Stay in the ‘innovation space’ Neither pure research nor too close to the market
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E-learning Strategy
> Emerging consensus that we have to work collaboratively; i.e. we all benefit through collaboration
> Several indicators:– CeLEA – industry e-learning association– IDEA – federal government inter-departmental working group– CMEC Pan-Canadian Online Learning Portal– CMEC-Industry Canada discussions
> Growing international opportunities – key for Canada because of the size of domestic markets– e.g. Jordan
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Conclusions
> E-learning standards and technologies reaching maturity> Consensus that “course-by-course” or “pilot-study”
approach is not enough> Strategic investments in e-learning are warranted> Evolving strategies are fundamentally collaborative and
match the evolving network architectures> Emerging interest in a pan-Canadian e-learning strategy
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