Plug into Learning

www.abelearn.ca

ABEL Vision

Improving Student success through:• Collaborative learning online (teachers, faculty,

pre-service teachers and students)• New blended learning environments for

classrooms, schools and districts • Interactive web-based learning resources• Sustainable inter-jurisdictional and inter-

institutional collaboration• Institutional change

ABEL: comprehensive approach to integrate capacity building of people and organizations with technological innovation

LearningResources

Professional Learning

Learning Environment

StudentSuccess

ABEL Community of Practice 2002-03

• 360 educators and partners (public/private) – K-12 and postsecondary– 11 sites in Ontario and Alberta on CA*net– Teachers– Faculty (college and university)– Pre-service teachers– Students – Researchers– Experts/mentors– Private sector contributions – capacity building – content, tools

and services– Growing list of public sector partners: TVO, Barrier Free,

StatsCan, Historica, Ontario Science Centre, Alberta Learning, Ontario Ministry of Education …

Professional Learning Program

• Transforming teacher practice using broadband technology– In classrooms (job-embedded, ongoing,

reflective practice)– Sharing (create, reuse, repurpose) multimedia

learning objects– Modular– Accredited

Learning Engine

• Creating a collaborative learning environment – Access to digital content (e.g. streaming

media, ON LOR/Portal, CRB)– Content management tools– Web services– Videoconferencing

Research

To support ongoing innovation in:• Student learning• Teacher/faculty professional learning• Personalized lifelong learning environment • Instructional designs to make best use of

broadband in classrooms• Organizational change/ cultural

transformation to embrace eLearning

Implementation System“Design, Develop, Deliver, Evaluate”

• Strategies and services that are adaptable to various communities

– Schools– Boards– Provinces

• Models for Private/Public sector collaboration and support

• Business models for sustainability

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Teaching, Learning, Collaboration!

• Teacher skills and confidence using technology

• “..we are beginning to use a common language and becoming comfortable with the equipment. I am getting a sense of community developing…”

Teaching, Learning, Collaboration!

• Pre-service programs in Faculties of Education

“Through the ABEL Project we have had a taste of how to use technology in the classroom and some insight as to how limitless it can be.”

Teaching, Learning, Collaboration!

• Changing cultures in institutions-cooperation

"Listening in to the Social team videoconference and online chat session today, I was so elated to hear one of our Ontario champion teachers say that "thanks to the ABEL tools and collaboration she was able to do so much really exciting curriculum development work…”

Teaching Learning Collaboration!

• Our ultimate goal-Improved student success