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

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

3. SOFAD 2003 Front stage > Portal

4. 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

5. SOFAD 2003 Front stage > User Spaces

6. 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

7. SOFAD 2003 Front stage > SOFAD Courses

8. SOFAD 2003 Front stage > SOFAD Courses

9. 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)

10. SOFAD 2003 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

11. SOFAD 2003 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

12. SOFAD 2003 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.

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

14. SOFAD 2003 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

15. 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

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

17. 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)

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

19. 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

20. SOFAD 2003 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)

21. 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

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

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