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.