Minister Rock Announces $10.6 Million
Industry Canada,
Sept 20, 2002
Another case of the press missing the big story, if you ask me. While I was on the airplane home from Calgary this week, Canada's Industry Minister, Alan Rock, was announcing $4.25 million in federal funding for eduSource, the project, led by organizations across Canada (including a strong Atlantic Canada component I have been working particularly closely with) is an effort to create "on-line collections of educational media (text, data, audio, video, animations, etc.), that can be used to design, develop, and enhance courses for any level of the educational system." While much is yet to be decided (and that's part of why I was in Calgary), this project is almost a $10 million effort overall to create a "marketplace" for learning opportunities on the world wide web, benefiting both Canadian students and vendors of learning materials.
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