Dear CIDER Member,
We invite you to our second session for the 2021-22 CIDER Sessions series on Wednesday, September 15, 2021. This free, online session will feature Charlene A. VanLeeuwen and George Veletsianos from Royal Roads University discussing their recent study in the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning.
Title: An Analysis of Digital Education in Canada in 2017-2019
Digital education refers to in-person, blended, and fully online learning efforts, as well as attempts to capture a wide range of teaching and learning contexts which make use of digital technology. While digital education is pervasive in Canada, pan-Canadian data on digital education are relatively scarce. The Canadian Digital Learning Research Association/Association Canadienne de Recherche sur la Formation en Ligne conducted pan-Canadian surveys of higher education institutions (2017-2019), collecting data on the digital education landscape and publishing annual reports of its results. Previous analyses of the data have used quantitative approaches. However, the surveys also collected responses to open-ended questions. In this presentation, we report on our systematic analysis of qualitative data exploring the digital education landscape in Canada and its changes over time. Findings shed light on the growth of digital education, the situated and multidimensional nature of digital education, the adoption of openness, quality, and rigour, the development of alternative credentials and our understanding of faculty training and support for digital education as articulated by higher education institutions.
When: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 11am to 12noon Mountain Time (Canada)
Where: Online through Microsoft Teams at our new website:
http://www.cideresearch.ca
Registration is not required; all are welcome. CIDER Sessions are recorded and archived for later viewing through the CIDER website at the link above.
About the 2021-22 CIDER Sessions Series
The CIDER Sessions are an online, open and free seminar series through which researchers or research groups can present their work to a broad audience of fellow researchers, practitioners, and students from across Canada and around the world.
As our 2021-22 season develops, we invite researchers working in distance, distributed, online, or blended education. If you have recent research for our CIDER audience, contact dwilton@athabascau.ca with a brief description of your research topic and approximate date when it will be available for presentation. A small number of spots may be available for students nearing completion of their dissertation or thesis. International presenters are welcome; all sessions are held in English.
About CIDER
CIDER is supported by the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL) and the Centre for Distance Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Athabasca University: Canada's Open University and leader in professional online education.
The Sessions and their recordings are open and available to all, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
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