Bill 8 amended the Independent School Act Section 1 Definitions by replacing the phrase “distributed learning independent school” with the phrase “online learning independent school” in this definition:
“online learning independent school” means an independent school that offers instruction to its students through online learning only;
The deficiency of this definition is the word “only” because there is so much more to distributed learning than online learning.
This website continues to use the term “distributed learning” to refer to the historical and continuing richness, flexibility and variety of distributed learning programs offered through independent schools.
In this website, “online learning” is used to refer to online learning programs offered by neighbourhood schools and school boards.
These acronyms are used in this website:
DL – Independent Distributed Learning
IDL – Independent Distributed Learning
IOL – Independent Online Learning
OL – School Board Online Learning
OL – School Board Distributed Learning