CIDER Session - Sense of irony or perfect timing (January 22, 2020)
Channel: Michael K Barbour
Date: 29/07/2020

Sense of irony or perfect timing: Examining the research supporting proposed e-learning changes in Ontario
Michael Barbour, Touro University California
Randy LaBonte, Canadian eLearning Network (CANeLearn)

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.

- Sense of Irony or Perfect Timing: Examining the Research Supporting Proposed e-Learning Changes in Ontario (IJEDE) - http://www.ijede.ca/index.php/jde/article/view/1137