Current Activities in the Canadian Telecommunications Community

 

Distance Education

The National TeleLearning Centre of Excellence (TL-NCE) is one of several research institutes established by the Canadian Government. It is described as:

"The TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence (TL-NCE) stimulates and tracks leading telelearning research advances in collaboration with university and industry partners throughout the world. Over 60 faculty from 28 Canadian universities are evaluating the effectiveness of new learning models, analyzing the cost-benefits and social impact of implementing telelearning, and creating new educational technologies."

The effects of trends in telecommunications on telelearning are described in the article found at "Trends in Telecommunications and Their Impact on TeleLeaning".