Decolonizing cyberspace: Online support for the Nunavut MEd

Offered between 2006 and 2009 and graduating 21 Inuit candidates, the Nunavut Master of Education program was a collaborative effort made to address the erosion of Inuit leadership in the K-12 school system after the creation of Nunavut, Canada’s newest territory, in 1999. Delivered to a lar...

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Autores principales:	Alexander McAuley, Fiona Walton
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2011
Materias:	Inuit education distance education Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2609182ded8b4295999dd8bf73ee9b892021-12-02T19:25:21ZDecolonizing cyberspace: Online support for the Nunavut MEd10.19173/irrodl.v12i4.8481492-3831https://doaj.org/article/2609182ded8b4295999dd8bf73ee9b892011-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/848https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Offered between 2006 and 2009 and graduating 21 Inuit candidates, the Nunavut Master of Education program was a collaborative effort made to address the erosion of Inuit leadership in the K-12 school system after the creation of Nunavut, Canada’s newest territory, in 1999. Delivered to a large extent in short, intensive, face-to-face courses, the program also made extensive use of online supports. This paper outlines the design challenges – geographical, technological, pedagogical, and cultural – that faced the development and delivery of the online portion of the program. It highlights the intersection of the design decisions with the decolonizing principles that framed the program as a whole, the various and varying roles played by the online environment over the course of the program, and the program’s contribution to student success.Alexander McAuleyFiona WaltonAthabasca University PressarticleInuit educationdistance educationSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 12, Iss 4 (2011)
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description	Offered between 2006 and 2009 and graduating 21 Inuit candidates, the Nunavut Master of Education program was a collaborative effort made to address the erosion of Inuit leadership in the K-12 school system after the creation of Nunavut, Canada’s newest territory, in 1999. Delivered to a large extent in short, intensive, face-to-face courses, the program also made extensive use of online supports. This paper outlines the design challenges – geographical, technological, pedagogical, and cultural – that faced the development and delivery of the online portion of the program. It highlights the intersection of the design decisions with the decolonizing principles that framed the program as a whole, the various and varying roles played by the online environment over the course of the program, and the program’s contribution to student success.
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title	Decolonizing cyberspace: Online support for the Nunavut MEd
title_short	Decolonizing cyberspace: Online support for the Nunavut MEd
title_full	Decolonizing cyberspace: Online support for the Nunavut MEd
title_fullStr	Decolonizing cyberspace: Online support for the Nunavut MEd
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title_sort	decolonizing cyberspace: online support for the nunavut med
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Decolonizing cyberspace: Online support for the Nunavut MEd

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