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ONAMAP
Electronic Centre for Higher Learning provides free
educational resources to educators requesting access to them,
and whoa re in affiliation with a current educational
institution.
Canadians
share a great pool of talent and an even richer archival bank
of information that has perhaps been laying covered up and
hidden from public access and use. The reason is simply the
word access itself.
Ontario Educators Information
Access Initiative (IAI)
e-Source Project
Canadian educators are confronted with the issues of
academic information and academic resource management on a
regular basis, and have expressed a need for web-resource
management. As the information available to students and
teachers has increased a great deal in recent years and will
continue to do so at a rapid rate as technology grows and
increases, it is important to travel with students as they
journey through technology. In the past, school boards have
attempted to provide technology to students and teachers in
schools but this does not keep up with the rapid growth rate
of technology we encounter today. With the increase in
computer and internet use, it is time to provide educators
with advanced and efficient technology accompanied by a
comprehensive web-resource management strategy.
Educators can benefit from the provision of current and
updated statistics, access to academic journals, access to
current events information, media resources, online lesson
plans, educational films, slide shows, handouts, and even
whole textbooks in e-text format. The above mentioned and much
more can be centrally hosted online on a website, where the
content has already been approved for the use inside the
classroom and with students. The Information Access Initiative
(IAI) in conjunction with the concept of technology enhanced
learning (TEL) is at the frontier of communications technology
and classroom education.
With 70% of the population of
North America using internet, it is safe to assume that the
majority of teachers and students in Canada now have access to
internet from home, the library, schools, and even mobile
devices such as cell phones and PDA’s. Students have
traditionally been asked to do readings from textbooks, and
have been given handouts in the classroom. The use of
information centrality for educators will strive to increase
efficiency in resource access for educators, increase student
participation in the classroom with the use of relevant
technologies, and connect homework at home to the classroom
with a minimum cost of materials production, reproduction
and/or duplication. The IAI also attempts to educate families
as a whole as the resources on the website will be made freely
accessible to anyone who takes interest.
“Technology is dominated by two
types of people: those who understand what they do not manage,
and those who manage what they do not understand.”
- Archibald Putt
Information is readily available and is ever expanding on
the global scale. It is the sole attempt of this project to
formulate a structure by which the management of a wide range
of information can be achieved to benefit educators, students,
their families, and the community at large.
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