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SOFAD 2003
Online LearningWhere is SOFAD Heading ?
Samantha SladeJo-Ann Stanton
PROCEDENovember 6, 2003
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SOFAD 2003
Front stage
StudentSpaces
TeacherSpaces
Administrator
Spaces
Courses• 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 . . .
Portal
Back stageVision
SOFAD Team
Infrastructure
Process
Research
Guidelines
Collaborators
Process
DE Network
Development of online English content
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SOFAD 2003
Front stage > Portal
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SOFAD 2003
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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SOFAD 2003
Front stage > User Spaces
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SOFAD 2003
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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SOFAD 2003
Front stage > SOFAD Courses
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SOFAD 2003
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• 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• 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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SOFAD 2003
Back stage > Process
Pre-project
Production
Plan and design
Prototype
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
Time frame Quality
$
A balancedtriangle
Technical specifications
Standards
Templates
Instructional design process
Content management system
Production of interactive content
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SOFAD 2003
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?• Many types of collaboration are possible
– 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...
and to share
time frame quality
$
A balanced triangle
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SOFAD 2003
Development of online English content
If you are interested in proposing a partnershipor a project…
Pierre Giguère, Director General
(514) 529-2171