1. Centre for Flexible & Distance Learning
UGC submissions:

2. SP : PA 1 & 2
YEAR
REQUIREMENTS
CAPITAL
PAY
NON-PAY
GRAND TOTAL
2013
Phase 1 Multimedia/training & testing Lab (Laucala)
$102,000.00
2 x Learning Systems Developers (AL level)
$200,000.00
Student training; Staff dev: Laucala & the region;
Research & Innovations
$100,000.00
$402,000
2014
Phase 2
Multimedia/training & testing Lab (Emalus)
$104,000.00
1 x Learning Designer/Trainer
1 x Learning Systems & Learning Technologies Researcher (SL level)
$120,000.00
$328,000
Dec 2011:
85% of course conversions into Moodle;
REACT is utilised in all Print and some blended courses (between 60-70% of USP courses)
Moodle 2.0 roll-out: effective from semester 2, 2012 at Laucala and the region
USP urgently needs to provide and ensure that support services particularly in the region operates at optimal and sustainable levels to support online learning designs. Consequently, the multiphase development of the labs, essential staff and non-pay costs to ‘close the circle’ (i.e. training, research, improvements and innovations) is PARAMOUNT.
The CFDL research projects approved by the Research office, “How does a DFL student succeed at USP?” and “Interactive Distance eLearning (IDeL) at USP” will start at the end of Feb 2012 and finish by Feb The info that these 2 research projects will yield is well overdue and will also serve to streamline the model proposed here.
Scoping studies by CFDL to evaluate support services in the region in 2011 revealed a range of available resources at different campuses, e.g.:
- Tonga (Campus and the centres)
- Emalus
- Alafua
- Kiribati
- Solomons
From 2012, CFDL is moving into the next phase of online course design and development at USP and from our experience (2007, when Moodle was first introduced, to the present), the online student support provided has largely been piecemeal, unreliable and unsustainable. CFDL proposes this system of support in the form of multi-purpose labs (as presented in the CAPITAL tables) to implement a standardised, high-quality and cost-efficient model.
The Business Plan in slides 3 & 4 refers to the commercialisation of Moodle AFTER the roll out of Moodle 2.0 in semester 2, 2012, has come out of the ‘beta’ phase at USP (we are allowing 2-3 years for students, staff and the required back-end developments to settle)
Currently Moodle consultancies have been ‘as requested’ by clients outside of USP. The Business Plan is a much more focussed approach that will market IN PARTICULAR USP’s learning design models which at that stage will have 8 years of experience in the region.

3. SP : PA 1 & 2
YEAR
REQUIREMENTS
CAPITAL
PAY
NON-PAY
GRAND TOTAL
2015
Phase 3 Multimedia/training & testing Lab (Solomons)
$106,000.00
1 x Learning Designer/Trainer (AL level)
1x Multimedia Manager (L level)
$160,000.00
Student training; Staff dev: Laucala & the region;
Research & Innovations
$140,000.00
$406,000
2016
Phase 4 Multimedia/training & testing Lab (Kiribati)
$110,000.00
2 x Professional Developers/
Researchers (SL level)
$180,000.00
Student training;
Laucala & Regional staff development; Research & Innovations; Implementation of Business Plan.
$100,000.00
$390,000

4. SP : PA 1 & 2
YEAR
REQUIREMENTS
CAPITAL
PAY
NON-PAY
GRAND TOTAL
2017
Phase 5 Multimedia/training & testing Lab (Tonga)
$140,000.00
1 x Learning Designer Research Fellow (AP level)
$160,000.00
Student training; Staff dev: Laucala & the region;
Research & Innovations
$100,000.00
$400,000
2018
Phase 6 Multimedia/training & testing Lab (Alafua)
$200,000.00
1 x Learning Design Research Fellow (AP level) $
Student training;
Laucala & Regional staff development; Research & Innovations; Implementation of Business Plan.
$420,000

5. SP : PA 1 & 2
YEAR
TOTAL
GRAND TOTAL
2013
$402,000
$2,346,000
2014
$328,000
2015
$406,000
2016
$390,000
2017
$400,000
2018
$420,000
2013 – 2018: Outlay for equipping the multimedia-training-testing labs vary according to the size of each one at the campuses selected according to identified issues in a scoping study in 2011, e.g. number of students, the facilities already currently found at the campus, etc
2017 & 2018: Most of the capital requested in these 2 years will be used to implement the CFDL Business Plan which involve the commercialisation of selected learning technologies’ workshops e.g. online course design & development and all of the composite components, e.g. animations, video clips, synchronised PPTs, youtube links to CFDL-produced, audio-visual materials etc.