ICTC/Education/Opportunities


 * Opportunities
 * Resources
 * Timeline

Ideas
 * clone FIT user community
 * Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO)
 * RFP - http://heqco.ca/en-CA/Research/Requests%20for%20Proposals/Pages/Home.aspx
 * Richard Wiggers, ED, Research & Programs


 * Charity Village, Reesa Rosen
 * Educause
 * Forum model
 * OERu - http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Strategy
 * Showcase

Possible Services
 * Research to track employers’ labour needs and subject matter expertise training needs to address labour shortages, expectations, workplace culture and interventions and supports - for example, recruitment and engagement initiatives; and the development of training, coaching and mentoring materials and services.
 * Develop training materials on new tools and approaches; and support training to content creators on the new tool(s)
 * Determine the most effective formats and delivery mechanisms to deliver the training materials.
 * Obtain feedback (review and testing) by subject matter experts
 * Provide training to subject matter experts, and ensure continuous updating of training materials.
 * Incentives for hiring newly graduated post-secondary students from App Development, and for related courses of study, to offset some of the costs involved in training and mentoring new graduates who lack job-experience.
 * Support for internships to provide on-the-job training for emerging App development - subject matter experts - from education to the workplace.
 * Funding to encourage enrollment in retraining programs to help transition individuals from previous work to a career in Apps content creation.
 * Strategies for retaining workers
 * Facilitating access to foreign workers in Apps content creation, and easing the mechanisms for hiring them.
 * Matchmaking-mentoring programs to support collaboration between companies of different scales with varied capacities to enable intensified collaboration as well as mentoring.
 * training audits, identifying competencies, developing training resources and assessment tools, and implementing the training programs/systems.

Resources

 * Digital Economy in Canada (Industry Canada website)]
 * Digital Media Content Creation Technology Roadmap (PDF),2009
 * Digital Economy Submission - OCAD
 * Horizon Report, Higher Education Edition, 2012)