The Newport Team
principals
Arlene Zuckernick
Arlene Zuckernick has been a Principal of Newport Bay (NBCS) since 1986 working in the area of distributed learning and innovative training. She has consulted provincially, across Canada and internationally, providing expertise to more than 50 public and private sector clients in planning, program design and implementation, as well as evaluation and monitoring. Arlene thoroughly enjoys the challenge of working as a program designer, applying a wide variety of learner-focused technologies.
She served as a founding Member and then President of the Canadian Association for Distance Education (1986‑87), providing leadership in the exchange of information, professional concerns and research in the field . Arlene has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Distance Education since 1992.
Arlene holds a Masters of Arts from the University of Toronto in Educational Communications.
Linda Schachter
As a Principal in Newport Bay Consulting Services, Linda is a distributed learning and research consultant specializing in instructional design and development, innovative training systems development, program review and evaluation, gender and equity issues, diversity and human rights training. She has researched and written a wide variety of courses, manuals, and research, evaluation and policy papers for clients ranging from international agencies to universities to federal, provincial and local governments, as well as NGOs.
Linda, who has a B.A. from the University of Washington and completed her coursework towards a Masters in Sociology at Carleton University, has directed many research and evaluation studies on gender equity particularly in relation to access of women to education, training and new technologies.
Linda enjoys working as part of a team. She has travelled extensively in Central and South America.
associates
NEWPORT BAY can call on an extensive network of subject matter, design and technical specialists in complementary disciplines. On a number of our recent projects, we have collaborated with Judy Roberts & Associates/ Associés Inc. (RAA) located in Toronto. http://www.robertsassoc.on.ca/
As adult educators, we subscribe to these learning principles:
- Effective design should consider the learners’ knowledge, experience and work environments
- Content plus learners’ and organizational needs should determine the choice of delivery technologies
- Design should exemplify best practices both in learning and in technology
- Good design should account for the organizational culture of the learners
- Design should reflect that learners have different learning styles
- Content should achieve a balance between theory and practice
- Effective design should include learner support strategies and feedback loops.
