online learning where is sofad heading ? samantha slade jo-ann stanton procede november 6, 2003
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Online Learning Where is SOFAD Heading ? Samantha Slade Jo-Ann Stanton PROCEDE November 6, 2003. Front stage. Back stage. Portal. Vision. SOFAD Team. Teacher Spaces. Student Spaces. Administrator Spaces. Collaborators. Process. Process. Infrastructure. Courses - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
SOFAD 2003
Online LearningWhere is SOFAD Heading ?
Samantha SladeJo-Ann Stanton
PROCEDENovember 6, 2003
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
SOFAD 2003
Front stage > Portal
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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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
SOFAD 2003
Front stage > SOFAD Courses
SOFAD 2003
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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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
SOFAD 2003
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
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Technical specifications
Standards
Templates
Instructional design process
Content management system
Production of interactive content
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
SOFAD 2003
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)
SOFAD 2003
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
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A balanced triangle
SOFAD 2003
Development of online English content
If you are interested in proposing a partnershipor a project…
Pierre Giguère, Director General
(514) 529-2171