Projects

program development and instructional design

For Ernst & Young, Toronto, a national seminar on videoconferencing best practices in association with RAA Associés, Toronto

For a consortium of the University of Victoria, Northern Lights College and Selkirk College, providing instructional design and course writing expertise for a professional development, blended learning project leading to the implementation of the British Columbia Early Learning Framework, Ministry of Children and Family (Early Childhood Development). See Understanding the British Columbia Early Learning Framework: From Theory to Practice:
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/early_learning/understanding_elf.htm

For Arts Umbrella in Vancouver BC, provided curriculum planning consultation for the development of a joint Arts Umbrella/Vancouver Community College program in Dance Performance.

For the Northern Health Authority, British Columbia, provided project development and instructional design expertise for an web-based seven course British Columbia wide post-basic rural acute care nursing curriculum.

For the School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, provided project development, instructional design and content development for a fully online, career-laddered Indigenous Diploma in Child and Youth Care for British Columbia.

For Royal Roads, Masters of Arts Program in Learning and Technology, Associate Faculty, BC, provided content expertise and instruction for online credit course on Program Planning for Technology-mediated Learning. http://www.royalroads.ca

For the Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, provided program planning and instructional expertise to design and develop a model for blended delivery and the courses for a post graduate certificate program aimed at qualifying school principals. http://www.educ.uvic.ca/csml/index.html

For Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU), University of Victoria (funded by World Bank) provided instructional and program design expertise for an international Web-based Master’s level program (10 distance courses) on ECD in Sub-Saharan Africa and a one-year certificate program in Middle East/North Africa; worked with subject matter specialists in person and at a distance. www.ecdvu.org

For the Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse, in association with Judy Roberts & Associates/ Associés Inc (RAA), worked with content specialists in Health Promotion to develop, pilot test and evaluate content to be used in online health promotion course. http://www.ohprs.ca/hp101/main.htm

For UNESCO Paris, Early Childhood & Family Education Sector provided instructional design expertise to develop two distance learning training modules, adapting materials from OECD reports.

For Royal Roads University, provided the instructional design and production expertise for two Internet and print-based Masters level courses in Leadership and Training.

For the Ontario Public School Teachers’ Association, designed and implemented a blended certificate program for superintendents of schools.

For the Ontario Addiction Research Foundation, designed and produced a multi-media curriculum on substance abuse.

research, evaluation and program review

For the Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education (CACE) Consortium, a collaboration of the Universities of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Victoria, provided strategic planning advice for on-line expansion of the Consortium including governance options, instructional design issues, common portal, for delivery and financial and marketing implications.

For the Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women and the Office of Learning Technologies, co-authored a research study on women and the new information and communications technologies. http://www.nald.ca/cclow/search/search_res.asp

For the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), acted as principal monitor on the planning and implementation of a multi-million dollar management training institute in China; Chengdu Institute provides a number of its management and business programs throughout South-western China.

For Campus Canada, in association with RAA, designed and implemented an evaluation process that tested an online prototype e-Portfolio with end users who were diverse in terms of geographic location and the sector in which they worked.
http://campuscanada.ca/new/index.php?t=7

For McGraw-Hill Education- HPI Group, NYC, in association with RAA, undertook a research project for product planning purposes, consisting of a targeted literature search to meet the business needs of senior personnel responsible for higher education in the US .

For the Newfoundland and Labrador Tele-Oncology Program (NLTOP), in partnership with RAA, developed an evaluation framework to assess the viability, impact and sustainability of the use of ICTs for clinical consultation and knowledge sharing in an integrated model that can be replicated for other specialties and in other jurisdictions. http://www.lawson.on.ca/grants/grants2005_comm.html

For Makerere University, Faculty of Medicine, Uganda, working with RAA, developed an evaluation framework and systems to monitor and evaluate the impact of a pilot telemedicine project (that included videoconferencing and ‘store and forward’ data transmission systems) on education programs and community-based health care.

For Patrimoine Canadian Heritage, in partnership with RAA, created benchmarks for the assessment of a French Second Language website, looking at best practices in online learning and the extent of market penetration, in order to guide future development and funding decisions.

For the BC Labour Market Development Board, wrote a research paper on the BC government’s adult training programs.

For the BC Ministry of Skills Development, researched and wrote a paper on alternative delivery modes for the apprenticeship system in BC.

For the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Communications, co-authored an evaluation study of audiences for community radio in four northern Ontario Aboriginal communities.

For the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities, in association with James Hickling Consultants Ltd., evaluated a major Canadian distance learning network, Contact North.

For the Ontario Ministry of Skills Development, conducted a major program review in the field of access of women to apprenticeship training.

training, public education and networking

For Autism Community Training BC (ACTBC), provided instructional design plan for a training manual for families (2006) to be available throughout the province. Website forthcoming. See http://www.actbc.ca.

For Multiculturalism Programs, Patrimoine Canadian Heritage, managed the design and production of a national series of packaged workshops to promote citizenship participation for new Canadians.

For UNESCO Paris, ICT-based Training in Basic Education for Social Development, Early Childhood and Family Education Sector, researched and wrote a series of distributed learning training modules , “Inclusion of Gender Perspective in Family Education”, for piloting in three Asian nations. http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php

For Patrimoine Canadian Heritage and BC Open Learning Agency, authored a widely distributed resource guide on distance and open learning.

For the Communication for Effective Social Service Delivery Project, Pakistan provided in structional design and content expertiseto create a training manual on Effective Meetings.

For the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy and Ryerson University, directed the design and production of an eight-course national certificate program on voluntary and non-profit sector management . The program has been adapted and delivered by many organizations; for example, see Ryerson University and the University of Guelph.

For the Royal BC Museum, designed an educational learning package for high school students to link to the Museum’s hosting of the touring exhibition of the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

For the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs, designed and delivered two multicultural and diversity training packages across Ontario.

For the Ontario Government, Women’s Directorate, researched and wrote numerous public education and training materials to promote employment equity in the workplace.

policy development and capacity-building

For the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), researched and developed an online database on Early Childhood Development for the COL Knowledge Finder ECD open and distance library. http://www.colfinder.org/tss/tsgenc?cmd=mainc&category=odl

For UNESCO Paris, Technical Meeting ( Bangkok) on ICT-based training in basic education, advised on development of ICT-based training materials.

For the Consortium of British Columbia Community Skills Centres), in association with Jennifer O’Rourke, undertook a research study and policy analysis of the potential of distributed learning to offer programming through local Community Skills Centres.

For the Canadian Association for Distance Education/ L’association canadienne de l’éducation à distance and the Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada, as part of a four-person team, developed a policy paper analyzing strategic legal, financial and organizational issues in the potential amalgamation of the respective organizations.

For the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), co-authored a framework for appraisal and design guidelines for internationally-based distance learning.