| BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS -- The Caribbean Tourism Organization/Caribbean Tourism Human Resource Council (CTO/CTHRC), working in partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), is organizing a 40-hour virtual workshop entitled "Atutor Course Development and Delivery," which takes place during October and November 2004. Atutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) which allows educators to quickly assemble, package and re-distribute Web-based instructional content, easily retrieve and import pre-packaged content, and conduct courses online. At the end of the workshop twenty five (25) curriculum specialists and tourism educators from tertiary level institutions across the Caribbean will have gained valuable practical experience in actually developing an online course using using Atutor and will also have developed an awareness of how to transfer the skills learned from this course to other Learning Management Systems and e-learning initiatives. The following institutions/entities will be participating in the virtual workshop: - Antigua & Barbuda - Hospitality Training Institute
- Barbados - Barbados Community College
- Belize - University of Belize
- British Virgin Islands - H. Lavity Stoutt Community College
- Dominica - Dominica State College
- Grenada - T.A. Marryshow Community College
- Guyana - University of Guyana
- Jamaica - Brown's Town Community College
- Jamaica - Excelsior Community College
- Jamaica - Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica
- St. Kitts & Nevis - Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College
- St. Kitts & Nevis - Eastern Caribbean Institute of Banking.
- St. Lucia - Sir Arthur Lewis Community College
- St. Lucia - OECS Education Reform Unit
- St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Vincent & the Grenadines Community College
- Suriname - University of Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago - Trinidad & Tobago Hospitality & Tourism Institute
This workshop is a follow up to a five-day workshop conducted in Barbados in May 2004 entitled "Instructional Design Processes for On-Line Learning" which focused on developing the skills of participants to create multimedia courseware. The workshop was funded by CIDA's Caribbean Regional HRD Project for Economic Competitiveness (CPEC), under the Caribbean Tourism Learning System project, which was aimed at facilitating a strategic and coordinated approach to tourism and training in the region. The Caribbean Tourism Organization/Caribbean Tourism Human Resource Council intends to utilize the skills of the workshop participants to assist in the development of an online course in Sustainable Tourism in 2005, and will continue to work with its tertiary education partners to develop additional online courses. This collaboration between the Caribbean Tourism Organization and the Commonwealth of Learning is expected to reap benefits for Caribbean students in the long term by providing greater access to tourism/hospitality courses throughout the region, through online delivery mechanisms. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, is the world's only intergovernmental organization dedicated solely to promoting and delivering distance education and open learning. It was created by the Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development of open learning and distance education, through the fostering and sharing of knowledge, resources and technologies. The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), with headquarters in Barbados and marketing operations in New York, London and Toronto, is the Caribbean's tourism development agency and comprises membership of more than 30 governments and a myriad of private sector entities. The CTO's mission is to provide to and through its members, the services and information needed for the development of sustainable tourism for the economic and social benefit of the Caribbean people. The organization provides specialized support and technical assistance to member countries in the areas of marketing, human resource development, research, information technology, and sustainable development. For more information, please contact CTO Headquarters at One Financial Place, Collymore Rock, St. Michael, Barbados; tel: +1-246- 427-5242; fax: +1-246-429-3065; E-mail: ctobar@caribsurf.com. CTO's New York office is located at 80 Broad Street, 32nd Floor, New York, NY 10004, USA; tel: +1- 212-635-9530; fax: +1- 212-635-9511; E-mail: get2cto@dorsai.org. CTO's London office is located at 22 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey. TW9 1BP; +Tel: 44-208-948-0057 fax +44-208-948-0067; E-mail: ctolondon@caribtourism.com. CTO Canada can be reached at CTO Canada can be reached 77 High Park Boulevard, Suite #1, Toronto, Ontario M6R lM9; Tel: +1- 416-565-7228; Fax: +1- 416-537-1975; Email: abrobyn@caribtourism.com. Visit CTO on the web at www.doitcaribbean.com and www.onecaribbean.org . Further information: Bonita Morgan
Tel: +1-246-427-5242
E-mail: bmorgan@caribtourism.com Kristen Schneider, KTC
Tel: +1-516-594-4100
E-mail: Kristen@Kahn-Travel.com |