School District No' 91 Nechako Lakes

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Key Choices for Learning

• School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes)

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Key Choices for Learning

• Our Electronic Delivery program is EBus
• First in BC Canada
• Most Successful in BC
• Largest in BC

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Key Choices for Learning

• EBus provides 730 FTE students in BC with an
  electronically delivered educational program.
• more than 400 of these students live in the lower
  mainland or Southern Vancouver Island

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Key Choices for Learning

• EBus provides
• expanded course options for small high schools
• students with a greater range of choices
• allows students to work and learn according to
  their own schedules

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Key Choices for Learning

• Learners in small schools, and individuals
  anywhere can benefit from EBus

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Key Choices for Learning

• Deregulate
• Enhance CHOICE ACCESS
• Allow parents and learners more options.
• It is time to remove the cap on Distance
  Learning Electronic Delivery systems.

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Key Choices for Learning

• Deregulate
• - Create FLEXIBLITY
• Encourage combinations of distance learning and
  regular school enrollment by removing enrollment
  caps and funding restrictions.

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Key Choices for Learning

• Deregulate
• Ensure QUALITY for learners
• Apply the same outcome expectations to distance
  learning electronic delivery programs that are
  used in regular schools

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• The innovators should be encouraged to form
• an organization for electronic course development
  and marketing, and
• a body that enhances and assures the quality of
  distance and electronic program offerings,
• both at home and abroad.

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Key Choices for Learning

• Reward Educational Innovation
• Those that have developed sound programs should
  be encouraged to market them
• a) throughout the province, and
• b) around the world

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Key Choices for Learning

• If you let us, we can deliver
• choice in education
• quality standards
• access and flexibility
• leadership
• economies of scale
• to the rest of the province and the world

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Key Choices for Learning

• Dont miss the Bus!