a history of curriculum services canada

2001
include the management of TCF’s awards.
Promotional presentations continued over the summer in an active attempt to explore new
partnerships with Canadian based organizations. These included meetings with the Education
Research and Development Corporation (ERDI), the Council of Ministers of Education (CMEC),
the Learning Materials Centre (for Quebec English schools) (LMC), and Ontario Heritage
Foundation. While ERDI was in the service of providing advice to educational resource
providers to Canadian schools, CMEC was approached to support resource evaluation for Early
Childhood Education, and LMC was interested in training for resource development by CSC for
their own staff. The possibility of developing a Native Resources website also followed from a
meeting with an official of the Native Curriculum Department of the Ministry.
Media relations continued during the summer and fall, with active promotion of the new website,
a promotional interview in the magazine, Professionally Speaking, and a submission on
evaluating E-Learning Resources in the magazine Education Canada.
One of the highlights of September was the news that CSC’s review services had been
favourably evaluated by an outside organization. Indeed, the Nipissing International Research
Institute for Teaching and Learning (NIRTL) submitted its final report on their independent
evaluation of the Review Services for Curriculum Materials and Learning Resources provided by
CSC, with the following recommendation:
It is our considered opinion... that CSC is well prepared to provide review services for
educational jurisdictions across Canada. The recommendations are focused on improving
what is already a highly effective enterprise; and on further expanding awareness among
the teaching profession and the public of the service CSC is providing.
By the end of the year 2001, the success of CSC was beginning to show in new sources of
revenue.
Professional Learning Services continued with its efforts on designing custom training packages
to support the writing and review of quality education learning materials. These would be
promoted in the new year, with an accompanying promotional newsletter, plpage, soon to be
added to the website. A proposal to IBM for the use of 20 laptops (a wireless cart technology) in
these training sessions was submitted to Board Director, John Kutcy.
Along these lines was the possibility of several new training contracts; LMC, the PEI branch of
Education Research, and education officials from Hong Kong, all of whom expressed interest in
the training packages.
A new initiative taken in the fall was the idea to submit a proposal to Rogers iMedia to evaluate
an electronic library or research database of over 12 million entries. This would require a new
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