Judy Roberts & Associates / Associés Inc.

Policy Research: Strategic and Business Planning

Canadian Association for Distance Education/L’association canadienne de l’éducation à distance and the Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada (2005). Recruiting and leading a four-person team tasked with analyzing strategic and tactical legal, financial and organizational issues involved in the creation of a new pan-Canadian organization responsive to the changed needs of the professions served by CADE and AMTec.

McGraw-Hill Education- HPI Group – NYC. (2005). Using web research and expert opinion consultations, complete, in association with Newport Bay Consulting Services Ltd., a targeted literature search to meet the business needs of senior personnel responsible for product planning in higher education for the United States of America; deliverables consisted of regular telephone client briefings and a written report.

Centre of Excellence for Children with Special Needs. (2003-2004)
Preparing a Discussion Paper on the research and policy implications of emerging technologies for children and adolescents with special needs who live in rural and northern communities.

Alberta Learning (2003)
Conducting an international environmental scan of learning object repository initiatives and compiling them as a confidential report to LearnAlberta.

OLIN Distance Learning Alliance (2002)
Preparing a business plan for a possible next stage of the OLIN Distance Learning Alliance.

Southern Alberta Institute for Technology (2001)
Writing a confidential White Paper entitled Planning Virtual Space at SAIT to facilitate decisions on the people, content and technology needed and facilitating a two-day symposium on the topic.

Industry Canada, Electronic Commerce Branch (2001)
Preparing a working paper on the Building Human Capacity policy area to support Canadian participation in the G-8 Digital Opportunity Taskforce (dot force).

The Association of Colleges of Applied Arts & Technology of Ontario (2001)
With Lyndsay Green & Associates, under contract to Hans van der Slagt & Associates Consulting Services, preparing a background paper on current and planned distance learning activities at Ontario colleges.

Reed Midem Organisation, France (2001)
Conducting business development in North America for the World Education Market 2001, held in Vancouver BC.

Open Learning and Information Network (2000-01)
Researching, and assisting with a workshop, regarding TeleLearning in the Health Sector.

Electronic Library, Rogers New Media (2000)
Researching the impact of the Internet on education in Canada and reporting statistical data on demographics, computer connectivity and education spending in the K-12 sector in Canada.

Office of Learning Technologies, Human Resources Development Canada (2000)
Preparing a report on critical issues in the post-secondary, community and workplace sectors to facilitate OLT's discussions on strategic directions.

Athabasca University (2000)
Developing a meta-analysis methodology for the assessment of OLT funded projects.

Ontario College of Teachers (2000)
Researching quality assurance in distance education.

Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (1999)
Researching the Canadian input, writing a comparative analysis of international trends and issues and providing related support services to the Council's leadership of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) initiative in ICTs and teacher professional development.

Caribbean Development Bank & The University of the West Indies (1998-99)
Conducting two studies, one on student support services and one on costing distance education, as benchmarks regarding meeting Caribbean Development Bank loan targets.

Project Planning, Management and Evaluation

Campus Canada (2004-05): Designing and implementing, in partnership with Newport Bay Consulting Services Ltd., an evaluation process of an online prototype E-Portfolio with end users who are diverse in terms of geographic location and the sector in which they work.

Newfoundland and Labrador Tele-Oncology Program (2004-05): Developing, in partnership with Newport Bay Consulting Services Ltd., 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.

Makerere University , Uganda (2004): Developing, in partnership with Newport Bay Consulting Services Ltd., an evaluation framework and systems to monitor and evaluate the impact of a pilot telemedicine project (that includes videoconferencing and ‘store and forward’ data transmission systems) on education programs and community-based health care.

Patrimoine Canadian Heritage (2004): Benchmarking, in partnership with Newport Bay Consulting Services Ltd., a French Second Language website in terms of best practice in online learning and market penetration to guide future development and funding decisions.

Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse (2004)
In association with Newport Bay Consulting Services Ltd., working with content specialists in Health Promotion to develop, pilot test and evaluate content to be used in a variety of online health promotion education applications.

Pensivo Inc. (2004)
As external monitor, conducting alpha and pilot tests of a training CD-ROM under development for the federal government of Canada’s Office of Critical Infrastructure and Emergency Preparedness, Canadian Emergency Preparedness College.

Canadian Virtual University (2002)
Researching and writing a Project Plan for Campus Canada to submit as an application to the CANARIE E-Learning Program 2002 competition.

Operation Online, Newfoundland and Labrador (2002)
Performing a quality audit of 22 online modules and supervising the work of three organizations as programming changes are made.

Mobile Learning Consortium (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Bell Mobility, NAIT, Seneca College, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Blackboard, Hewlett-Packard, and Avaya) (2002)
Leading the Evaluation Work Stream in a pilot program designed to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of handheld wireless technology as a value-added tool in a first-year college accounting course.

Concordia University, Goodman Institute of Investment Management (2001)
Developing site selection criteria, researching video conferencing facilities, and offering a faculty training workshop.

Canadian International Development Agency (2001)
As part of a China-Canada Distance Education Co-operative programme, escorting the China delegation on a Basic Education Study Tour (in collaboration with The Pacey Group), and moderating a followup two-day needs assessment workshop, under contract to Joan Bell's consulting services.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (2000)
Undertaking a feasibility study for the design and implementation of their online training project.

Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC), Industry Canada's SchoolNet, and the Office of Learning Technologies (OLT), Human Resources Development Canada (1999)
Helping to plan, organize and conduct the Canada-APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Workshop on Professional Development of Educators in the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Teaching and Learning. The economies of Australia, Brunei Darussalem, Chile, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong China, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, United States and Canada participated in the initiative.

Coady International Institute, St. Francis Xavier University (1999)
Facilitating a partnership with Indira Gandhi National Open University (India) in developing a participatory program planning certificate at a distance.

McGraw-Hill/Ryerson (1998-99)
Exploring the feasibility of adapting Canadian college materials for use by teachers in developing countries.

The World Bank Institute, Distance Learning Unit (1999)
Researching learning technology applications in selected countries around the world.

Brewers Association of Canada (1997-2002)
Managing the New Brunswick Educational Resource Development Pilot Project Partnership, chairing its Steering Committee as members developed web-based alcohol education curriculum resource materials for 13-14 year olds in both French and English, and promoting the site nation-wide.

Capacity Building:

University of Maryland University College (UMUC) (2000-present): Writing the initial syllabus and teaching an online graduate course in “Technology in Distance Education” (2000-2004), a core course in the joint UMUC/Oldenburg ( Germany) Master of Distance Education program; revising the syllabus (2005) in collaboration with another MDE faculty member in Israel.

Canadian Defence Academy , Department of National Defence. (2005). Designing, organizing and co-facilitating a 1.5 day Distance Education Workshop held February 23-24 at Royal Military College (Kingston Ontario) for 25 distance educators working in a variety of Canadian Forces organizations and then co-moderate a one-week online discussion.

CIBC Financial Solutions Support Group (2003, 2002)
Providing customized training on the appropriate use of audioconferencing for product training.

CADE-ACED(2004, 2003)
Participating in a variety of plenary conference events to open the conference or conclude a day's proceedings.

Alberta Online Consortium (2001)
Presenting keynote address at Forum #1, The changing role of teachers in online learning, Edmonton, November 23.

Concordia University (2001)
Facilitating a faculty training workshop on Planning and facilitating video learning: Focussing on the essentials, Montréal, July 4-5.

World Education Market (2001)
Chairing a table on Best Practices in Teacher Training for the Meeting of Like Minds session for Nelson Heller Reports, Vancouver, May 21-24.

Ontario College of Teachers (2001)
Presenting Distance education in Canada: Beginning its third century to the meeting of the OCT Accreditation Committee.

Office of Learning Technologies, Human Resources Development Canada (2001)
Leading the Capacity Building focus at annual meeting of the OLT's Advisory Network of Experts, Ottawa, February 22-24.

National Judicial Institute (2001)
Presenting Building quality for technology-based learning: Learning from the experience of others at the Institute's Technology Based Distance Learning and the Judiciary workshop.

Office of Learning Technologies, HRDC (1999)
Organizing three distance workshops in British Columbia, Alberta and Québec based on the Lifelong Learning on the Information Highway Series.

The Commonwealth of Learning (1997)
Co-facilitating in Jakarta, Indonesia, a training workshop on Capacity Building in Distance Education for Primary Teacher Training: Planning and Management of Open and Distance Learning as part of a series funded by the Asia Development Bank.

Industry Canada (1998)
Participating as a member of the Canadian delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Round Table on Adult Learning and Technology in OECD countries, in Philadelphia.