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=- Horizon's Distance Education Hub=


 * Distance Education Moto:** Fullfilling education through universal means.

ie. Credenda, Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School, NESD
 * Services:** A growing range of grade 10-12 core, elective and special credit high school classes based on need. If enrollment numbers are small 1-4 we look for alternative distance education providers within the province.


 * Service Region:** all schools within Horizon School Division


 * Demographics:** ~ 200 students with ~220 seats total registration (small in scope)


 * Stats:** 16 teachers, 21 courses offered


 * 2012-2013:**
 * **core classes:**
 * calculus 30, history 30, math - Workplace and Apprenticeship 20 / 30, Math Foundations 20 / 30
 * Math - Pre-calculus 20 / 30
 * **electives:**
 * accounting 10 / 20, creating writing 20, french 9/10, interior design 30
 * Law 30, psych 20 / 30, journalism 20
 * Career & Work Exploration


 * Model:**


 * Synchronous Courses via Elluminate - semesterized scheduled classes
 * common timetable planning
 * Asynchronous Courses via Moodle - semesterized and accomodated.


 * Delivery Tools**
 * Moodle, Elluminate
 * Skype, Inspiration, Prezi, Google Docs, Youtube


 * Professional Development / Learning Network**
 * Distance Ed Committee - sets direction
 * School visits by distance ed program coordinator
 * An area of weakness - we would like to do more for our teachers and possibly reconsider our model.
 * get together at least once a year.


 * Challenges**


 * Model - decentralized, teachers have in school commitments and often distance ed is additional workload.
 * Enrollment numbers - does it warrant course creation?
 * Success rate
 * School Division Vision - where are we going with distance ed, level of embracement.
 * Distance Ed PD - we could do more for our distance ed teachers, instructional design.
 * Declining numbers for SCN in the French Program
 * Access to provincial univeral distance ed courses/learning object - they are a lot of work to prepare, sharing is key.
 * Best tools and methods for engagement, AFL strategies, relevence etc.
 * The new maths are truly a unique challenge for small schools.
 * Independant study - nature of students and reasons for taking a course (just need the credit mentality)

To address some of the above challenges we envisioned the DE Boot Camps. We are currently on Boot Camp 3.

Jim Swan – **jim_dot_swan_at_hzsd_dot_ca** 306-946-2042
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