Community Learning Campus (CLC)
Growing Together – Learning Forever
Olds College and Chinook’s Edge School Division (CESD) are the principle partners in the Community Learning Campus project, in collaboration with Mountainview County, Town of Olds, University of Alberta, and others. These partners have combined intellect, ideals, and spirit to shape a new path for rural education delivery. More than just inspiring architecture, the CLC and its Learning Plan will be one of the most innovative approaches to high school, college, and community learning in the world.
Equal Opportunities for All Albertans
The CLC provides stakeholders and government with an opportunity to promote leadership when it comes to ensuring the sustainability of rural communities. It is designed to allow high school students, adult learners, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and community members the opportunity to experience enriched education that is traditionally reserved for people living in large urban centres.
The CLC provides a revolutionary pathway for the future of education, not only within the community of Olds, but also within the Province of Alberta. The spirit behind the CLC reflects the goal of Rural Municipalities in Alberta to keep and attract human capital. It inspires a new generation of learners who desire to live and work in the communities where they were born and raised. Working within the framework of the Government of Alberta eLearning Plan reaches well beyond the high school and college student population to impact all learners, opening doors for continuous learning, retraining opportunities, and professional development, regardless of age and training.
Integrated with the Olds College campus, the CLC consists of four multi use facilities:
Bell eLearning Centre
- Provides opportunities for distance learning beyond the physical campus
- Improves rural access to broadband technologies such as video conferencing, through the SuperNet
- Offers a centre for leadership growth by creating opportunities for professional development of:
- Staff
- Industry/Business
- Government
- Members of the Community.
Health & Wellness Facility
- Provides a holistic approach to physical, emotional, intellectual and social growth.
- Outside of the traditional gymnasiums, fitness centre, and multipurpose areas the facility is built to house
- Central Alberta Child and Family Services
- Alberta Human Resources and Employment
- Integrated Career Centre
- Counseling and Health Services.
Core High School
- Provides 700+ capacity facility for high school students, grades nine to twelve in Olds and area.
- Integrates the Chinook’s Edge School Division motto “Where Students Come First”.
- Engages students in learning in flexible teaching and learning spaces that provide classroom, team, and individual configurations allowing for self-directed study, project-based and collaborative learning.
Health & Wellness
Facility and Core High School
Fine Arts & Multi Media Centre
- Provides a flexible venue offering
- 350 seat theatre
- instructional, presentation and conference space
- multipurpose areas for performing and visual arts in Olds and area
- Responds to the fine arts and programming needs of Olds High School, Olds College and the surrounding community.
Timeline
Bell eLearning Centre
- Groundbreaking: May 2006
- Construction commences: August 2006
- Completion: Fall 2007
Fine Arts & Multi Media Centre
- Construction commences: Fall 2006
- Completion: Fall 2008
Core High School
- Construction commences: Fall 2006
- Completion: Fall 2009
Health & Wellness Facility
- Construction commences: Fall 2006
- Completion: Fall 2009
The construction dates of the CLC buildings will be staggered from summer 2006 through to fall 2009.
- Learn more about the CLC at the CLC
web site
