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State Of The Nation: K–12 Online Learning In Canada, Michael K. Barbour
State Of The Nation: K–12 Online Learning In Canada, Michael K. Barbour
Education Faculty Publications
A variety of initiatives are driving online and blended learning in each of Canada’s provinces and territories. From teachers’ unions in Nova Scotia fighting to ensure online learning is an accepted method of educational delivery, to Ontario’s College of Teachers creating an e-learning endorsement for teachers or the British Columbia government creating policies to expand the growth and opportunities online learning provides, there are multiple, isolated initiatives happening across the country.
State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada is now in its fourth year of publication and can be seen as a national guide for understanding the field …
Faculty Compensation For Developing And Delivering Online Courses, Jeffrey Allen Burleson
Faculty Compensation For Developing And Delivering Online Courses, Jeffrey Allen Burleson
STEMPS Theses & Dissertations
The intent of this dissertation was to determine the most common compensation practices higher education institutions provided faculty for developing and delivering online courses. Many higher education institutions provided compensation as motivational tools to elicit faculty participation in new online learning initiatives; however, limited research was available on equitable compensation for these services. The population consisted of 263 small, medium, and large baccalaureate and masters level private and state-funded not-for-profit United States higher education institutions. This population was selected using the maximum number of institutions identified by the Carnegie Classification system that met these criteria.
Data for this study were …