Thank you.
A study by York University in the early days of Connected North found that 89% of students who participated said that this kind of live virtual experience made learning more enjoyable. As part of the program, we also survey our teachers every single year. Last year over 200 teachers responded to that survey, and 96.5% of them said that Connected North helps to do two things—increase students' motivation and contribute to their attendance. We know those are factors critical to success and graduation.
Similar to something like Uber or eBay, at the end of each session a teacher has an opportunity to give us feedback on a five-star scale. This year we had a 94% teacher satisfaction rating, with over 2,000 pieces of feedback to date.
We're very data-driven. We're always analyzing how we can improve. More importantly, we're also working with those institutions—museums, science centres, aquariums—and, based on teacher and student feedback, helping them to improve their virtual learning delivery for every Canadian.
I think we have a big gap in terms of the preparedness. There's a lot of funding for physical spaces from this government, but there is very little funding for institutions, partners of ours, for virtual program delivery and virtual learning.