Web Tools Newsletter continues its coverage of national public broadcaster services for education this week and turns its gaze to Canada. Where it finds... nothing. "We fail to find any Schools Broadcasts as such, or sections labelled Educational - they simply aren't there." The authors find the explanation, sort of. In Canada, education is a provincial responsibility, so instead of a national broadcast education program, we find a series of provincial ones, each approaching the subject slightly differently (though, as the authors note, "the CBC's transformation now looks suspiciously like the adoption of a broad educational vision"). Though they link to several provincial initiatives, such as The Knowledge Network and TVOntario, they miss some of Canada's major provincial educational services, such as the Open Learning Agency, Learn Alberta, and Canal Savoir. It's OK, though. Nobody in Canada understands the entire Canadian system either.
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