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Online Learning
Where is SOFAD Heading ?
Samantha Slade
Jo-Ann Stanton
PROCEDE
November 6, 2003
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Back stage
Front stage
Portal
Vision
SOFAD Team
Teacher
Spaces
Process
Collaborators
Student
Spaces
Process
Infrastructure
Guidelines
Research
DE Network
Courses
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L’industrialisation et l’urbanisation
Réunions d’affaires (Voc. Ed)
Test de classement en mathématiques
Biologie de la reproduction
Recherche d’emploi
Spanish
Trigonométrie I . . .
Development of online English content
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Administrator
Spaces
Front stage > Portal
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Front stage > Portal
• Informs users of the characteristics
and functionning of courses
• Motivates potential learners/teachers
• Reassures potential learners/teachers
• Simplifies entry into the elearning
world: instant access
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Front stage > User Spaces
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Front stage > User Spaces
• For Teachers, Students and Adminstrators
• To provide easy acces to all courses and
services
• To facilitate the management of learning
and pedagogical support
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Front stage > SOFAD Courses
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Front stage > SOFAD Courses
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Front stage > SOFAD Courses
• For all school boards (vs. for one)
• For distant, in-class and independant learners (vs. for one
particular audience)
• Based on MEQ programs (vs. General public)
• Complete: learning and evaluation activities,
methodological tools, communication system(vs. Partial)
• Interactive and multimedia (vs. Page turners)
• Pedagogically adapted (vs. Same approach as paper)
• Professional quality (vs Do-it-yourself)
• Self-paced (vs. Group paced)
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Back stage > Orientation
SOFAD will produce MEQ adult education
courses in quality online and paper versions in
both French and English.
These courses will be:
• complete elearning environments providing all
learners need to learn, and all teachers/tutors need
to support learning in an integrated fashion
• self paced learning, and when appropriate
collaborative learning
• within present school board/SOFAD structure
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Back stage > SOFAD Team
SOFAD specializes in
• Technogical and instructional design
• Project management
• Quality control
Approx. 25 people
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Project Coordinators
New technologies consultant and R & D advisor
Digital rights negotiator
Technical support, Integrator
Client services
Support staff
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Back stage > Collaborators
SOFAD outsources for 2/3 of production costs
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Subject matter specialists
Researchers
Authors
System analysts and programmers
Illustrators, Recording studios, actors
Graphic designers and interface designers
Content reviewers, linguistic reviewers
Proofreaders and technical reliability testers
Webmasters
etc.
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Back stage > Process
Pre-project
Plan and design
Prototype
Production
Post production
Running
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Back stage > Infrastructure
• For the development of courses
– to work with spread out production teams
– to manage the millions of pieces that make up a course
– to facilitate versioning and quality control
• For the delivery of courses
– secure online purchasing
– assignment of class/distant/independant learners and
teachers/tutors
– tracking and managment of learning
• SOFAD is working with Novasys so that their
platform evolves to fit with the adult education
system in Québec
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Back stage > Research
• Institutional research: gathering data on the
Québec DE system
• R & D to facilitate innovation
– Conduct analyses of on-going and completed productions
– Explore and develop tools to facilitate innovation
– Keep abreast in our field via
• conferences ex. technology, distance learning, instructional design,
elearning, or subject matter
• journals ASTD, American distance ed, Edusource etc.
• Listservs etc
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Back stage > Guidelines
Instructional design process
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Production of interactive content
Content management system
Technical specifications
Templates
A balanced
triangle
Time frame
Standards
Quality
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Back stage > DE Network
• International presence
– Mission to France, British Council seminar
– Collaboration with CIDA
– Memberships (ex. Éducation internationale, AACE Association for the advancement
of computing in education)
• National
– CADE (Canadian Association of Distance Education)
– P/TDEA (Provincial and Territorial Distance Education Association)
– REFAD (Réseau d’énseignement francophone à distance du Canada)
• Provincial
– CLIFAD (Comité de liaison en formation à distance)
– GTN (Le groupe de travail sur les normes)
– School boards (Board of Directors, Consultative committees, ad hoc committees,
punctual events)
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Development of online English content
Collaboration between
SOFAD and the School Boards
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Development of online English content
What type of collaboration?
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Partnership agreements for course development
Consultative committee participation
Presence on the Board of Directors
« Loan » of ressources for subject-matter ad hoc
committees, or as authors, content revisors, etc.
– Participation in prototype or trial period testing
– Etc.
• Courses to be developed: to be determined with
the SBs
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Development of online English content
What can the SBs bring to the table?
• Existing content
(print-based, audios, videos, CDs, online...)
• Human ressources
(content experts, pedagogical experts,
programmers, « techies », etc., for authoring,
designing, testing… or simply providing
feedback)
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Development of online English content
What can SOFAD bring to the table?
• Existing content
• Project management
• Instructional and technological design expertise
(instructional designers, NT consultant and R&D advisor)
• Established production processes including quality
control
• Financing from the MEQ (entente Canada-Québec…)
• A platform for development and distribution of
online courses
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Development of online English content
A challenge to take up...
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and to share
A balanced
triangle
quality
time frame
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Development of online English content
If you are interested in proposing a partnership
or a project…
Pierre Giguère, Director General
[email protected]
(514) 529-2171
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