Canadian Research

Canadian Digital Learning Research Association/ Association canadienne de recherche sur la formation en ligne

Bay View Analytics was one of the founding partners of Canadian Digital Learning Research Association/ Association canadienne de recherche sur la formation en lign in 2017. Since then, Bay View Analytics has worked with CDLRA/ACRFL every year to conduct a pan-Canadian survey of Online and Digital Learning, and publish national and regional reports of the results. In 2020, Bay View Analytics partnered with CDLRA/ACRFL to expand its research initiatives with short pulse surveys to faculty and administrators at Canadian post-secondary institutions throughout the year.

Prior to 2017, there had been no such tracking of online learning in Canada. In 2017, Dr. Tony Bates and a team of researchers partnered with Bay View Analytics and the Western Co-operative for Educational Technology (WCET) for the first Canadian National Survey of Online and Digital Learning. Since then CDLRA/ACRFL has tracked changes in online offerings, learning technologies, and digital strategies at publicly-funded, post-secondary institutions across the country.

Bay View Analytics has been a central part of CDLRA/ACRFL since the beginning, developing and administering the surveys, conducting the data analysis, and authoring reports in partnership with others at CDLRA/ACRFL.

2024

Bay View Analytics is pleased to join CDLRA releasing the 2024 Pan-Canadian Report, with findings from our 2024 Spring and Fall surveys.

There is a narrative that massive change is on the horizon, if not already unfolding at an unprecedented rate. That same narrative suggests that those who do not embrace technology and the change it brings will find themselves left behind and ill-equipped to thrive in the future. But what is happening in actuality? Are we living through a time of profound digital disruption? Or are things more or less how they’ve always been?

As we navigate messages about technology adoption and its anticipated impact on teaching and learning, the 2024 Pan-Canadian Report exists to provide evidence-based insight to the Canadian post-secondary community.