EET Updates - December 7

Lots going on . . .

Budget (from Townhall on November 27)
- Can watch the recording if you weren't at the session
-Typically provincial grant is +6%; possile ths year it will be -5%
-Won't know for sure until February or March
-Many "what if's" being asked
-Three drivers: Oil, Natural Gas, and Exchange Rate
- Don't see improvement or next 2 years
- Implications?

Curriculum Support - Sue, Debbie, and Julie

PD, Awards, and Conference - Debbie and Julie

New Projects:
- NATOA - National Aoriginal Trust Officer's Association (currently in development) and one more coming our way
- ESL / Nursing Pathways - series of 4 courses
- eCampusAlberta Student Stupport Site - with Learning Cafe
- First Nations Metis Inuit (FNMI) - 3 courses / instructor resource materials

Existing Projects
- China - currently completing semester 4 of 4. Tight timelines!
- Angel Implementation - Celebration on December 18 - all production staff invited
- Angel Support - 1 on 1 sessions last week - 37 instructors
- eCampus

• OCDF - 4 / 2009 - almost complete
• OCDF - 5 / 2010 - submissions due Friday, December 11 (FASD, Electrician, and TRG)

- Internally funded course development projects
- Learning COnnections website - almost ready to go public
- Hubbard Virtual Wilflife - will be finished by December 24
- Police Recruit Training

Other
- MM Practicum student interviews this week
- Video Conferencing and Desktop / web conferencing
- Marketing initiatives
- MFD Committee - changing . . .
- DL Stragegy
- Third Floor Tech needs
- Leave a Legacy
- Copyright website
- EET website
- Instructional Design Community of Practice

Staffing Updates
- Project Position - working hard on this one
- New Instructional Designers

• Diana Quirk - Jackie's Mat Leave replacement
• Stacey Goldstein - to help with ESL / Nursing Pathways and FNMI projects

- DL Academic Support Position

• Ian Hepher: half time starting in January