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Online Learning Where is SOFAD Heading ? Samantha Slade Jo-Ann Stanton PROCEDE November 6, 2003

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

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Online Learning Where is SOFAD Heading ? Samantha Slade Jo-Ann Stanton PROCEDE November 6, 2003

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  1. Online Learning Where is SOFAD Heading ? Samantha Slade Jo-Ann Stanton PROCEDE November 6, 2003 SOFAD 2003

  2. Front stage Back stage Portal Vision SOFAD Team Teacher Spaces Student Spaces Administrator Spaces Collaborators Process Process Infrastructure 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 . . . Guidelines Research DE Network Development of online English content SOFAD 2003

  3. Front stage > Portal SOFAD 2003

  4. 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 SOFAD 2003

  5. Front stage > User Spaces SOFAD 2003

  6. 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 SOFAD 2003

  7. Front stage > SOFAD Courses SOFAD 2003

  8. Front stage > SOFAD Courses SOFAD 2003

  9. 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) SOFAD 2003

  10. 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 SOFAD 2003

  11. 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 SOFAD 2003

  12. 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. SOFAD 2003

  13. Back stage > Process Pre-project Plan and design Prototype Production Post production Running SOFAD 2003

  14. 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

  15. 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 SOFAD 2003

  16. Back stage > Guidelines Instructional design process Technical specifications Production of interactive content Templates A balanced triangle Standards Content management system $ Time frame Quality SOFAD 2003

  17. 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) SOFAD 2003

  18. Development of online English content Collaboration between SOFAD and the School Boards SOFAD 2003

  19. 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 SOFAD 2003

  20. Development of online English content What can the SBs bring to the table? • Existing content(print-based, audios, videos, CDs, online...) • Humanressources (content experts, pedagogical experts, programmers, « techies », etc., for authoring, designing, testing… or simply providing feedback) SOFAD 2003

  21. 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 SOFAD 2003

  22. Development of online English content $ A balanced triangle quality time frame A challenge to take up... and to share SOFAD 2003

  23. Development of online English content If you are interested in proposing a partnershipor a project… Pierre Giguère, Director General pierreg@sofad.qc.ca (514) 529-2171 SOFAD 2003

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