Canada has a long and established tradition in distance education — arising
from the need to provide access to education across the vast expanses of this
country. Now, after decades of development involving the educational uses of
radio, television, teleconferencing, and computers, Canada has become a world
leader in this area. Distance education has become a primary delivery system for
education and training within Canada, as well as the world beyond. The explosive
growth of information and communication technologies (ICT) has combined
perfectly to strengthen and diversify options for distance education even
further.
Whether known as distance education, distance learning, telelearning,
distributed education, or e-learning, all combine to provide a wide variety of
programs — school, academic upgrading, adult literacy, skills development,
technical and professional training, postsecondary credit courses, and special
interests — using a wide variety of technologies.
DISTANCE EDUCATION RESOURCES
Search
Programs (DistanceEdCanada.ca)
Database of university courses and programs of study available at several
Canadian universities — particpants in this co-operative Web site by the
Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE) and the
Ontario Council for University Lifelong Learning (OCULL).
Canadian
Virtual University Programs (CVU)
Provides access to database — by subject, program level, and institution
— of university level programs, from 7 Canadian universities, offering
complete university degrees or certificates on-line and through distance
education.
DistanceEdCanada.ca
Web site providing access to a searchable database of distance education
courses and programs at over 30 Canadian universities — a joint project of
the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE) and the
Ontario Council for University Lifelong Learning (OCULL).
Office
of Learning Technologies (OLT) (Office of Learning Technologies,
Human Resources & Skills Development Canada)
Acts as a catalyst for innovation in skills development and learning enabled
by technology, and encourages collaboration among public and private sector
organizations using technologies to expand learning opportunities.
Resources
in Distance Education - RIDE (Athabasca University)
Menu of searchable database of Internet resources on distance education at
the postsecondary level - including topics such as theory and practice,
educational technology resources, distance education issues and
organizations, and WWW design for distance education.
UniversityOnline.ca
(COHERE — Consortium for Online Higher Education and Research)
Alliance of Canadian universities providing university level programs and
courses of study online.
Canada's
Campus Connection (Canada's SchoolNet, Industry Canada)
Promotes the on-line courses of Canada's universities and colleges to
government and private sector employees seeking skills development or
upgrading.
(In French Only)
Le
Répertoire de l'enseignement à distance en français (Réseau
d'enseignement francophone à distance du Canada — REFAD, and Réseau
INTERACTION Network, Inc.)
A searchable database of all French K-12, postsecondary, and other courses
offered via distance education by institutions throughout Canada.
Athabasca
University
Canada's open university — offering over 500 distance or on-line education
courses at the postsecondary level, leading to undergraduate and graduate
degrees as well as diplomas and certificates.
Association for Media
& Technology Education in Canada (AMTEC)
National organization of educational media and technology professionals,
concerned with the improvement of education and public welfare through the
use of educational media and technology.
eduSource
Canada (Netera Alliance)
Developmental project to create a testbed of linked and interoperable online
resource databases across Canada, and to provide leadership in the
development of associated tools, systems, protocols, and practices to
support such an infrastructure.
