ONLINE LEARNING AND TEACHING ACROSS SCHOOLBOARD BOUNDARIES

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ONLINE LEARNING AND TEACHING ACROSS SCHOOLBOARD
BOUNDARIES
Hubert Lalande, Consultanthlalande_at_sympatico.ca
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Au Menu!

• Ontario at a Glance
• Provincial e.Learning Strategy
• SCOT Project
• Available Courses
• Statistics
• Surveys

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French Ontario

• 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

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Ontarios e.Learning Strategy

• December 2006
• Its  raison dêtre 
• Provincial Standards and Guidelines
• Provincial LMS LOR
• Online Learning Communities
• Training and Professional Development

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Benefits to Boards

• 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

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Benefits to Boards

• 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

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Benefits to Boards

• 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

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Ontario's Education Priorities

• Student Success Strategy
• Learning to 18
• Literacy and Numeracy Strategy
• Rural Student Success Program
• High Skills Major
• Aboriginal Education
• Politique dAménagement Linguistique

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Priorities of Ontario Education

• 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

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Role and Responsibilities of the CFORP

• 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.

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The SCOT Project
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The SCOT Project

• 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

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The SCOT Project

• 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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ONLINE TEACHING
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Role and Responsibilities of the CFORP

• Services provided by CFORP in the context of the
  SCOT project
• Hiring of online teachers
• Registration for online courses
• To online teachers
• Tutoring
• Training

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The SCOT Project

• Each board supplies one subject specialist
  teacher
• Schools provide local support to student

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The SCOT Project

• 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

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The SCOT Project

• Online courses are part of the students
  regular timetable
• Teachers work from their home school

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The SCOT Project

• 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

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The Dream Team!
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Online Teachers Responsabilities

• Teaching and evaluation
• Monitoring of students
• Communicating with parents, local contacts,
  etc.
• Adaptation of course content

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Logistic

• 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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Testimonial
Monique Bélanger, CECLFCEProvincial Online
Teacher (SCOT Project)
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The SCOT Project

• The Scot project offers many solutions by
• Providing flexibility in a students timetable
  and resolving scheduling conflicts
• Providing courses that are unavailable in the
  students home school
• Giving students who cant attend their home
  school (health reasons, etc.) the opportunity to
  take courses

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Advantages

• Flexibility
• Anywhere and anytime
• More courses available
• For each board and school, 12 additional
  specialist teachers available

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Testimonial
Dominique Noël, Student, Grade 11
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20 Courses for Grades 9, 10, 11
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17 Courses for Grade 12
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Statistics
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Statistics
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Statistics
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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

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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

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Testimony
Carole Lafrenière-Noël, parent délève
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Contacts
Hubert Lalande Consultant [phone] Ext
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