%0 Journal Article
%T Decolonizing Cyberspace: Online Support for the Nunavut MEd
%A Alexander McAuley
%A Fiona Walton
%J International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
%D 2011
%I Athabasca University Press
%X Offered between 2006 and 2009 and graduating 21 Inuit candidates, the Nunavut Master of Education program was a collaborative effort made to address the erosion of Inuit leadership in the K-12 school system after the creation of Nunavut, Canada¡¯s newest territory, in 1999. Delivered to a large extent in short, intensive, face-to-face courses, the program also made extensive use of online supports. This paper outlines the design challenges ¨C geographical, technological, pedagogical, and cultural ¨C that faced the development and delivery of the online portion of the program. It highlights the intersection of the design decisions with the decolonizing principles that framed the program as a whole, the various and varying roles played by the online environment over the course of the program, and the program¡¯s contribution to student success.
%K Inuit
%K Aboriginal
%K distance graduate program
%K decolonization
%K pedagogy
%K K-12
%K school administrator
%K Indigenous education
%K Nunavut
%K decolonizing
%K educational leadership
%K distance education
%K distance learning
%K blended learning
%K knowledge building
%U http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/848/1798