This is a presentation by George Cavaliere and Sylvia Currie for the 2007 Moodle Moot confference.

2. Dealing with the Challenges Remote Communities Face with Online Learning Facilitated by: George Cavaliere Sylvia Currie

4. Interactive Status Map Courtesy of Telus http://about.telus.com/digitaldivide/map.html

5. CURRENTLY CONNECTED

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10. THE CHALLENGE If the solution to the provision of adequate courses is to be partially met with technological solutions, then the real issues of technical support, adequate IT provision, training and maintenance issues need consideration. However it is perceived that IT alone will not necessarily meet the needs of many of the ‘remote’ students.

14. Figure 1 outlines a proposed model for the lifelong learners' environment, showing two learning environments, traditional learners' (A in Figure 1) and online learners' environments (B in Figure 1)

15. How is NVIT Using Moodle to Address these Challenges?

22. Sylvia Currie Monica Macaulay George Cavaliere

23. REFERENCES Ministry of Management Services www.network.gov.bc.ca/ www.mytelus.com http://about.telus.com/digitaldivide/map.html www.nvit.ca