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will ockendenFour more online universities in Canada have joined IDP Education's System of International Student Placement Services as part of the organization's ongoing global expansion. IDP is the world's largest student placement firm, and it is in the process of expanding its professional student placement services into Canada. This means that Canadian universities and colleges are now able to enlist the student recruitment services of the organization that successfully places one if four students into an Australian higher education program.
Student counseling for Indian students promoting Canada as a destination has already begun. IDP operates counseling centers in 17 key Indian cities, and the organization will steady expand its Canada service from there through its network of more than 70 counseling centers in more than 20 countries throughout Asia and the Middle East.
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m00byThe Canadian Virtual University (CVU) is an association of online universities in Canada that specialize in online and distance education. They have joined in collaboration to increase access to quality university education for more students. All of the associated universities are members of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), and in addition many of the programs are accredited in the US as well.
One of the benefits that CVU provides to students is the ability to mix and match courses from several universities and save administrative fees by using a letter of permission form. CVU also makes it easier to pick up a missing course and transfer it to their program at another school, as well as get a head start on university while still in high school. There are many courses that have no prerequisites and are available to students age 16 and up.
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l'interditIt has taken four years, but the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Medicine has taken their curriculum online and in the process has earned accolades as the best managed project for 2011. The faculty's system, called Online Portal for Advanced Learning (OPAL), took top honors over four other entries at the Project Management Institute's annual award ceremony in Winnipeg.
One of the biggest challenges they faced in converting the system to a web-base happened when the vendor that was originally tapped to supply the system pulled out half way through, leaving the faculty to finish the project by other means. They recruited an outside specialist called Online Business Systems to finish the job, and in spite of these unexpected obstacles they finished the project under budget. The result was an online university Canada can be proud of.
