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ePortfolio

  • project background
  • environmental scan
  • research report
  • human capital accounting
  • HRD policy goals
The Digital Learning Record (ePortfolio) Background Paper
The Future of the ePortfolio - The Future with the ePortfolio - PPT presentation at the World Future Society, Chicago 2005
The Electronic Learning Record, an ePortfolio Environmental Scan: Assessment and Management of Skills and Knowledge
The Electronic Learning Record: Assessment and Management of Skills and Knowledge - ePortfolio Research Report
The ePortfolio and Human Capital Accounting
The ePortfolio and HRD Policy Goals
ePortfolio Quality Standards Discussion Paper

ePortfolio Services for Adult Basic / Essential Skills - report for ABC

CANADA

ePortfolio Quality Standards 2004
FuturEd Consumer's Guide to ePortfolio Tools and Services
Introducing the ePortfolio: The New Management of Learning presentation
  ePortfolio for Learning Assessment White Paper
  ePortfolio for Learning Assessment - presentation
  ePortfolio for eLearning Quality Assurance - presentation 2005
  ePortfolio for Quality Assurance - FuturEd White Paper 2006
  ePortfolio in the Aboriginal Community - eParfleche presentation
  eLearning quality and ePortfolio for Trust and Transparency between Instittutions and Nations - presentation to the Commonwealth of Learning, Virtual University for the Small States , Singapore 2006
  ePortfolio for Skilled Immigrants - project summary for LIfIA and HRDC
  ePortfolio 2006:  A Call to Action
  Community ePortfolio for Community Economic Development

Adult Literacy

  • basic education
  • essential skills
  • workplace education
Adult Literacy Programs, Policies
and Practices: Lessons Learned
Adult Literacy: Lessons Learned

Sustaining Literacy Programs Through Evaluation 

Draft Impact Analysis Tool fall 2001
eLearning and Literacy - Policy Implications in BC
Lifelong Learning Policy for HRDC
Lesson Learned in Adult Literacy short report
Literacy and Digital Divide
Literacy Issues and Policy Recommendations
eLearning and Literacy ROI Guide 2005

E-learning and Distance Education

  • learning technologies
  • learnware
  • virtual schools
  • quality assurance
Comparison of Virtual and Traditional Secondary Schools
Consumer-based Quality Guide- lines for Learning Technologies
and Distance Learning
A Survey of Quality Standards for Educational Software
Comparing the Effectiveness of Virtual and Conventional Secondary Schools
Canada's New Consumer's Guide to E-learning
Canada's Quality Initiative
Introducing eQcheck
E-learning Imperative
Learnware Quality Background Paper
Quality Guidelines for Technology-Assisted
Distance Education
Linking the Literature:
School Effectiveness and Virtual Schools
Canadian Recommended E-Learning Guidelines
Consumers Guide to E-Learning

Lignes directrices recommandées
sur l'apprentissage électronique au Canada

Guide du consommateur
d’apprentissage électronique
  Open eQuality Learning Standards (Barker, 2004)
  ePortfolio for eLearning Quality Assurance - presentation
    Learning Objects Quality Standards and Assessment (2006)
    Learning Objects Quality (ppt presentation) 2006

Education/Training Industry

  • education consumers
  • information services
  • quality assurance
  • return on investment
Policy Diagnostic for CanLearn Interactive
Creation of a Consumer's Guide to Career Training and
Professional Education

Evaluation and Quality Assurance

  • program evaluation
  • education accountability
  • impact analysis
  • quality audit
Evaluation of Learning Technologies
and Distance Education
Operational Review of a Community College Campus
Quality Assurance and E-learning

Future of Education

  • education trends
  • training trends
Learning Systems In the Future
For the Future
Education In the Future,
For the Future
Managing Change: The FuturEd
Transformation Model
Transformation Tools to Change
Learning Systems
The 21st Century Learner:
Alternative Perspectives
Comparing the Effectiveness of Virtual and Conventional
Secondary Schools

Future of Work

  • knowledge-based
    economy (KBE)
Conceptualizing the Skills of
Knowledge Workers: Higher Order
Employability Skills
New Work Order
Human Resource Development for Small- and Medium- sized
Enterprises and Regional Economic Development in
Canada for the Knowledge- Based Economy
The Learning Record: Linking PLAR to Lifelong Learning and Human Resources Accounting in the Knowledge-based Economy
Managing Learning in the Workplace
The Electronic Learning Record:
Assessment and Management of Skills and Knowledge
Research Report
The Electronic Learning Record:
Assessment and Management of Skills and Knowledge
A Literature Review

International Education

FuturEd Canadian Education  Consulting Expertise:
Working with Sistem (Project management in Turkey)
Competencies and International Education

Lifelong Learning

  • national policy
  • future visions
  • learning record
  • gender issues
Lifelong Learning in Canada:
Visions for the Future
The Learning Record: Linking PLAR to Lifelong Learning and Human Resources Accounting in the Knowledge-based Economy
Lifelong Learning Policy Framework for HRDC
 
Lifelong Learning in
Canada: Visions for
the Future
 
Development of a Skills and Knowledge Profile: The Learning
Record
Gender and Lifelong Learning: Enhancing the Contribution of Women to Small- and Medium-sized  Enterprises in Canada
for the 21st Century

Skilled Immigrants

Recognition of International Credentials / Foreign Credential Recognition - Environmental Scan for Campus Canada with Recommendations (2005)

Bridging Programs:  Quality Standards and Evaulation Tool (2004)

ePortfolio for Skilled Immigrants (2006)

Prior Learning Assessment

  • PLAR
  • national standards
  • quality assurance
  • research
Development of the PLAR Quality Audit Tool
Research to Assess the Status of PLA/PLAR in Ontario Universities
Quality Audit of Provincial PLA/PLAR Policy in British Columbia
The Future and PLAR;
The Future of PLAR
 
Implementing the PLAR Standards:
Quality Assurance
The Learning Record: Linking PLAR to Lifelong Learning and Human Resources Accounting in the Knowledge-based Economy
Sustaining PLA in BC
The Electronic Learning Record: Assessment and
Management of Skills and Knowledge (a literature
review)
The Electronic Learning Record:
Assessment and Management of Skills and Knowledge
Research Report
The Electronic Learning Record:
Assessment and Management of Skills and Knowledge
A Literature Review
Sustainability and Efficiency of Prior Learning Assessment in British Columbia’s Public Post-Secondary Education System
Background Paper
Sustaining Prior Learning Assessment in British Columbia
Discussion Paper
Achieving Public Policy Goals with Quality PLAR
A Student’s Guide to Prior Learning Assessment
Introducing.......... the PLA / PLAR Quality Audit

Return on Investment in Learning

Consumer's Guide to Return on Training Investiment
eLearning and Literacy ROI Guide 2005
Return on Training Investment (ROTI)
Environmental Scan, Spring 2001
Return on Investment Workbook
Return on Investment Analysis of
International Education
eLearning and Adult Literacy: Exploring Return on Investment (ROI)
Return on Investment (ROI) in International Education - FuturEd Workshop

Small Business

  • planning tools
  • training and HRD
Enhancing the Contributions of Women to SMEs in Canada
Women's Human Resources Development Needs in the Context of Small- and Medium-size Enterprise in Canada in 1998
Tools and Processes:
Situational, Operational and Human Resources
Analysis for SMEs in the Tourism Industry
Human Resources Development (HRD)
for Entrepreneurs in Small- and Medium-
size Enterprise (SME) and for the Promotion
of Regional Industry in Canada
Return on Training Investment (ROTI)
Environmental Scan, Spring 2001
Return on Investment Workbook

Training

  • training standards
  • training quality audit
Introducing Canada's Training Standards
FuturEd Training Products
FuturEd's Training Quality Audit
Quality Assurance through Canada's National Training Standards
Training for Employment: Policy and Delivery in Canada

Workforce Development

  • assessment tools
On-line Skills Self-Assessment Tools for Canada's Education Website
Researching a Consumer's View of Work Skills Analysis Tools
Using Work Skills Analysis Tools to Target Training: Piloting the Work Keys System
Managing Learning in the Workplace
Training for Employment: Policy and Delivery in Canada
What to Ask When  Choosing Work Skills
Analysis Tools

News Archive

UBC wins 2003 FuturEd Award for Futurist use of eLearning (pdf)
Launching a new international project - ePortfolio Quality Standards
ePortfolio Quality Standards Discussion Paper
Consumers Guide to E-learning
The sign of quality e-learning - Aug 26, 2002
Westmount’s “Smart Board” wins the AMTEC FuturEd award - Oct 1, 2002