Report says NB schools stuck in past when it comes to e-learning
Canadian Press writer reports on Paul Bennett’s policy paper for AIMS, entitled “E-Learning in K-12 Schools: The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation.” The paper details Atlantic Canada's lethargy in e-learning reform. Read the full article on the Telegraph-Journal website. FREDERICTON - A new report says New Brunswick and the Atlantic provinces are falling behind other jurisdictions when it comes to using technology [...]
Atlantic Canadian schools falling behind on e-learning: report
Halifax's Chronicle Herald reports on Paul Bennett's policy paper, entitled "E-Learning in K-12 Schools: The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation," which contends that the Atlantic provinces have lost the e-learning initiative. Read the full article on the Chronicle Herald website. A new report from a Maritime think tank says schools in Atlantic Canada have fallen way behind some other provinces in [...]
E-Learning in K-12 Schools: The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation
E-Learning in K-12 Schools The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation A report by Paul W. Bennett E-Learning in K-12 Schools examines how Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador lost the e-learning initiative, why centralized top-down “21st century learning” visions run aground, and how school system constraints – common to bricks-and-mortar schooling – limit the potential for [...]
e-Learning in K-12 Schools
The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) today released a report about how school systems in Atlantic Canada are slow to adopt to changing teaching methods and are falling behind other jurisdictions in the transition to e-learning in schools. The study, entitled E-Learning in K-12 Schools: The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation, examines how Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, [...]
Radio: Interprovincial Trade Barriers
Interprovincial trade barriers in Canada are a burden to consumers and an obstacle to producers. But the case of Gerard Comeau of new Brunswick gives us hope. Comeau, who was charged for bringing alcohol over the Quebec-New Brunswick border, was recently acquitted. The judge ruled that New Brunswick's law restricting the transport of alcohol violated the constitution. This [...]
Consumers should be free to choose
In his Telegraph-Journal column, AIMS Vice-President of Research John Williamson criticizes New Brunswick's reaction to the R. v. Comeau ruling earlier this month. "We do not need our government telling Canadians they cannot buy liquor from elsewhere in Canada or be a costly and meddlesome intermediary between buyers and sellers." Read the full article on the Telegraph-Journal website. Heads the [...]