About CIDER

CIDER's research scope is broad, ranging from learning and teaching application, financial and issues of access, the strategic use of technology in distance education settings, and other factors that may influence distance education in Canada.

CIDER Fellows, Students, and Staff conduct original research, undertake evaluation and training consultancies, publish reviews and summaries, and undertake professional development activities.

CIDER offers its Fellow, Students, and Others interested in distance education research, a range of services, resources, and publications. Most importantly, CIDER strives to support an active Community of Practice among distance education researchers. CIDER also provides a voice for policy formulation and development, and comprehensive distance learning planning based on sound research that takes real education contents into consideration. CIDER seeks to be the central source for distance education research in Canada.

CIDER aims to reduce conjecture and guess work in distance education, by helping people just like you - researchers, educators, administrators, and interested individuals - make fully informed decisions based on....
RESEARCH THAT MATTERS!

You are encouraged to join CIDER (non Canadians as well) and to complete a Fellow or Graduate Student Researcher Profile , so that others can learn of your research skills and interests. You are also welcomed to post or respond to the Special Interest Group forums. CIDER also sponsors regular web conferencing sessions - please check the schedule for upcoming sessions and recordings of past events. Finally, CIDER news and other pages on this site are RSS enabled . By subscribing to these RSS feeds, alerts will be sent to your RSS aggregator to remind you of changes and additions to the site.

CIDER offers its Fellow, Students, and Others interested in distance education research, a range of services, resources, and publications. CIDER also provides a voice for policy formulation and development, and comprehensive distance learning planning based on sound research that takes real education contents into consideration.

CIDER seeks to be the central source for distance education research in Canada.

CIDER aims to reduce conjecture and guess work in distance education, by helping people just like you - researchers, educators, administrators, and interested individuals - make fully informed decisions based on....

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RESEARCH THAT MATTERS!