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CIDER has many speakers on tap from across Canada. Our next session is featured below, or list all Upcoming CIDER Sessions. Check back often, as this list of upcoming events will be expanded. Slides and the audiographic recording of all Past CIDER Sessions are available for downloading in the archive.

Our next CIDER session

The Blended Teacher as Bricoleur: Diverse and flexible teaching requirements for seamless, engaging blended learning Facilitator:   Marti Cleveland-Innes Institution:   Athabasca University Date and time:   Jun 06, 2012 11:00 AM Mountain Time (Canada)   Blending diverse learning experiences has been in existence since humans started thinking about teaching. Recently, the term blended learning emerged to describe the infusion of new technologies into the traditional learning and teaching process. In particular, the Internet provides the opportunity to create, support and/or maintain a community of learners in a blend of place-based and Internet-based environments. Still under discussion are the fine distinctions and effects of activities in learning environments touched by the Internet, and its social, instructional, and cognitive impact. In an autoethnographic account of leading and facilitating such a blended university course, descriptions of the instructor's intrapersonal and interpersonal experiences are referenced against proposed teaching strategies in a blended community of inquiry. Post-course student responses to the learning experience demonstrate that the highest value was placed on the learning environment created by the group and the instructor's support.

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Our most recent CIDER session

State of the Nation 2011: K-12 online learning in Canada Facilitator:   Michael Barbour   • Profile Institution:   Wayne State University Date and time:   May 02, 2012 11:00 AM   Over the past two decades, there has been little government, foundation, or private funding for the development of or research into K-12 online learning in Canada. Moreover, there has been little activity in Canadian higher education towards the research of K-12 online learning. Both of which have limited the focus and scope of education research into K-12 online learning. As such, K-12 online learning has continued to develop across Canada quietly, and with little dissemination outside of the country and between individual provinces. Over the past four years, the State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada study has attempted to address this gap by examining of the regulation and activity of K-12 distance education in Canada. In this ongoing series, Dr. Barbour returns to CIDER with this year's State of the Nation. Among his findings: Regulation continues to vary from language in the Education or Schools Act, Ministerial Directives, policy documents, inter-provincial agreements, and collective bargaining agreements. British Columbia continues to have the most structured regulatory regime, while Quebec and Saskatchewan continue to have no regulation at all for K-12 distance education. One development over the past year has occurred in the province of Alberta, where the government has continued to shift its focus from a distance education to an educational environment where online and blended learning are pervasive - however, little movement has actually transpired on that front. The use of K-12 distance education is present in every jurisdiction and growing, although that growth is uneven and only experienced in certain jurisdictions. However, that growth was isolated to a few jurisdictions in 2010-11, with British Columbia still having the highest number and highest percentage of activity. There continues to be a heavy reliance on print-based methods of distance education delivery in some jurisdictions. Finally, distance education is largely viewed as a substitute to brick-and-mortar that should be used when that face-to-face learning not feasible or economic.

2011 State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada (sponsored by Connections Academy, Digitel Inc. & Heritage Christian Schools)

2010 State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada (sponsored by Connections Academy, Desire2Learn & K12, Inc.)

2009 State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada (sponsored by Connections Academy)

2008 A Snapshot State of the Nation Study: K-12 Online Learning in Canada

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Presentation slides (PowerPoint)

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Nearly 90 researchers and educators from across Canada attended the inaugural CIDER Session. Each session is 60 minutes long and runs from 11:00 AM Mountain time (1:00PM Eastern). Registration is free. For more information on attending upcoming sessions, email Dan Wilton at dpwilton@shaw.ca