Sense of Irony or Perfect Timing: Examining the Research Supporting Proposed e-Learning Changes in Ontario
January 22, 2020
Michael Barbour · Touro University Mare Island, United States
Randy LaBonte · Canadian eLearning Network, Canada
Randy LaBonte · Canadian eLearning Network, Canada
Only weeks before the 2019 annual meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA) was held in Toronto, Ontario, the provincial government announced a major reform of education for that province entitled Education that Works for You - Modernizing Classrooms. From an e-learning perspective the proposal called for a centralization of e-learning, a graduation requirement of four e-learning courses, and increasing the class size limit for e-learning courses to 35 students. The AERA call for submissions for the 2020 meeting issued a challenge for scholars to 'connect with organizational leaders to examine collaboratively continuing educational problems... [and] programmatically engaging with educational organizations.' This presentation focuses on a recently published article in the International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education by Michael Barbour and Randy LaBonte, who accepted that challenge and described a collaboration between scholars and a pan-Canadian organization to examine the research behind each of the proposed e-learning changes in Ontario.
Keywords: K-12, e-learning
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