Course Development
Welcome!
Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth is pleased to provide and host curriculum-congruent web-based courses (WBC) for any school division/district or adult learning centre wishing to implement senior years courses using the Internet. Web-based courses are intended for use by schools, in distance learning, and blended learning contexts, or as a teaching resource for educators.
Development Overview
Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth, through the Learning Support and Technology Unit, is developing web-based courses as part of its distributed learning strategy. Web-based Courses are developed internally and in partnerships with school divisions. A review process is integrated with course development.
Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth supports web-based course development in a number of ways:
- management of web-based course development
- provision of a provincial Blackboard/WebCT license
- provision and maintenance of a course server in co-operation with MERLIN
- provision of instructional design and use of Blackboard/WebCT for developers
- consultation support to developers
- management of requests for access to web-based courses
- training on Blackboard/WebCT, and online pedagogy, for new online teachers
Distance Learning: A Policy for Schools/Divisions/Districts (2002)
The purposes of this document are to provide information regarding the role of distance learning within a changing educational environment; specify the policy for creating and sustaining a distributed model of online distance learning within a managed and cooperative environment; specify the roles and responsibilities of Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth and its partners in developing and implementing a distributed model of online distance learning; define a peer review process for online distance learning courses.
Note: The above policy and support document are under revision but the current policy is to be followed until a revised document is approved.
For more information about web-based course development, please contact Howard Griffith at 204-945-4447/1-800-282-8069 (ext. 4447), or for information about the Manitoba Model for Web-based Course Implementation, please contact Donald Girouard at 1-800-465-9915.