Skip to main content

Latest

report on business
D2L sets price range on IPO that would value Waterloo-area online learning company at more than $1-billion
Bayfield, Ontario ---2020-09-17--- John Baker, founder of D2L, a Canadian online learning management software company poses for a portrait at his home in Bayfield, Ontario on Thursday September 17, 2020. GEOFF ROBINS/ The Globe and Mail
opinion
Online learning is here to stay in the postpandemic education system
Paul W. Bennett
report on business
Online-course platform Thinkific Labs files preliminary prospectus to go public on TSX
A TSX tote board is pictured in Toronto, on Dec. 31, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
travel
A cross-Canada collection of virtual March Break activities for kids and teens
Redmond and Georgina Harvesting. Indigenous crafts and activities Whistler’s Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre offers activities to keep small hands occupied with a series of videos on making traditional Indigenous crafts,
canada
‘Short-sighted’: Anger as Ontario school board set two-week deadline for classroom decision
A grade two classroom is shown at Hunter's Glen Junior Public School which is part of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Six school boards in Toronto, York Region, and Peel Region will be returning to in-person classes after a stretch of online learning that began in January. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
canada
University students lash out at tuition hikes, poor quality of remote learning
Alberta University students built 250 snow penguins outside the provincial government’s McDougall Centre to protest cuts to post-secondary education in Calgary, Alberta, February 11, 2021. Todd Korol/The Globe and Mail
canada
With homes growing messier in lockdown, spouses are reconsidering their approach to chores
GUELPH, FEB 6, 2021 - PANDEMIC HOME LIFE - The typical day at the Milhausen house in Guelph see’s Prof. Robin Milhausen and her kids, Leo 14 and Molly 10, setting up shop at the dining-room table for a full remote learning, school day. As a professor at the University of Guelph, Milhausen has been researching marriages through the pandemic, including divisions of household labour. Between cooking meals (she makes 90 meals a month for the kids) and helping with school work and walking the dogs, Milhausen often slips out of the house away from the distractions for two hours and sits in her car at the local coffee shop with her laptop, no coffee, reading student work. Glenn Lowson photo/The Globe and Mail
report on business
Toronto digital textbook publisher Top Hat raises $130-million from Georgian, recruits new CEO
Mike Silagadze, co-founder and chief executive officer of Top Hat Inc.: ‘Most people we talked to were very skeptical about our marketing approach.’
canada
What will it take for Ontario to reopen schools in COVID-19 hot zones?
An empty classroom is shown at Hunter's Glen Junior Public School in Scarborough, Ont., on Monday, September 14, 2020. With online learning extended until late January across southern Ontario, and for even longer in Toronto, York, Peel, Durham and Windsor-Essex, parents are finding a litany of strategies to manage all their responsibilities. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
report on business
Pitching in: Helping students break bad habits during the coronavirus pandemic
Daniel Pye, a student at the University of Toronto, is photographed on Jan 21 2021. Pye and a group of 25 other students belong to The Rise to Thrive Foundation, whose goal os to promote self care and support Canadian mental health.
canada
Union calls for Ontario-wide extension of online learning
A woman uses her computer keyboard to type while surfing the internet in North Vancouver, B.C., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. A survey of university students, faculty, and academic librarians in Ontario suggests that the shift to online learning has negatively affected the quality of their educational experience. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
canada
Canadian universities, colleges urge extra precautions as students prepare to return
Students walk across campus at Western University in London, Ont., Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Geoff Robins
canada
Schools in northern Ontario set to reopen to in-class learning on Monday
A grade six class room is shown at Hunter's Glen Junior Public School which is part of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scarborough, Ont., on September 14, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
toronto
Ontario teachers’ unions want government to establish specific benchmarks for school plan
A teacher places the finishing touches on the welcome sign at Hunter's Glen Junior Public School, part of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), a day before classes reopen for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada September 14, 2020. Picture taken September 14, 2020. Nathan Denette/Pool via REUTERS
canada
School boards warn internet outages affecting online learning in Ontario
A woman uses her computer keyboard to type while surfing the internet in North Vancouver, B.C., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. A survey of university students, faculty, and academic librarians in Ontario suggests that the shift to online learning has negatively affected the quality of their educational experience. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
opinion
Universities shouldn’t abandon online learning after the pandemic
Rahim Rezaie
canada
Regina public schools move from in-class to online, raising concerns of learning loss
December 12, 2020 - Kathleen Eisler from Regina, Saskatchewan and three of her children are home from school doing distant learning since schools are on lockdown until January 11, 2021.
canada
Public schools in Regina switch to remote learning as COVID-19 cases surge
canada
School shutdowns have put children up to eight months behind in reading, research indicates
A grade two classroom is shown at Hunter's Glen Junior Public School which is part of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scarborough, Ont., on Monday, September 14, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
canada
Enrolment up at Canadian universities, mostly because of part-timers
People walk past the University of Toronto campus in Toronto on June 10, 2020.
opinion
We’ve become dependent on a technological ecosystem that is highly invasive and prone to serial abuse
Ronald J. Deibert
canada
Educators worry COVID era is ‘irreparably harming’ students' future
Grade 12 student Meg Walker and her mom Trish Walker at their home in Ardrossan, Alberta on Thursday, November 5, 2020.
canadian university report
University looks different this year, but that’s not all bad
University of Guelph Animal Biosciences professor Dr. Andy Robinson photographed with miniature donkeys he uses to teach students remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, October 24, 2020.
canada
Students miss out and teachers feel overwhelmed as school boards blend in-person and virtual classes
Afrooz Cainfrone pictured in her Vaughn, ON home with her two children who are in a hybrid learning program on Oct. 28, 2020. Yader Guzman/The Globe and Mail
morning update newsletter
Morning Update: Ottawa was told about potential problems at Public Health Agency
On campus at Queen’s students wear masks or have them ready for entering dinging halls and other buildings. During the COVID-19 pandemic the classes at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario are mostly online, but some students have moved into residence or off-campus housing to eke out as much of the university experience as possible. Over the first two weeks of school, residence students have had to follow strict rules, while parties near campus have created tension with other Kingston residents. September 11, 2020 (Melissa Tait / The Globe and Mail)
opinion
Online learning can be eye-opening for both teachers and students
Mark Lautens
canada
More Scarborough elementary schools losing teachers to virtual learning than elsewhere in Toronto, data show
Grade two teacher Vivian Mavraidis looks out into the hallways at Hunter's Glen Junior Public School during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scarborough, Ont., on Sept. 14, 2020.
toronto
Toronto-area school board scraps virtual classes in favour of hybrid model
morning update newsletter
Morning Update: Ottawa set to declare plastics as toxic in blow to Alberta
A young boy fixes his gloves as he waits in line at a COVID assessment centre at Mount Sinai Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Thursday, September 24, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
canada
Toronto public schools to reassign more than 500 elementary teachers to virtual learning
A grade six class room is shown at Hunter's Glen Junior Public School in Scarborough, Ont., on Sept. 14, 2020.
featured reports
Lessons learned from the forced experiment in online education
Dean Van Doleweerd, assistant head of learning, and a student during orientation week at Lakefield College School.
toronto
TDSB turning to supply teachers as it rushes to hire for online classes
The Toronto District School Board head office at 5050 Yonge St., is photographed on Feb 6 2018. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
canada
Some TDSB elementary remote learners left with independent work as board scrambles for teachers
Children wait outside Elizabeth B. Phin Public School ahead of their first day of classes in Pickering, Ont., on Sept. 8, 2020.
toronto
TDSB says it no longer needs extra classroom spaces after more parents opt for online learning
The Toronto District School Board head office is seen in Toronto, on Feb. 6, 2018.