Open School BC has hired Donat Group and Socrates Learning to talk to their in-house developers about tools and emerging standards for creating and deploying Learning Objects. Donat Group has extensive knowledge on existing and emerging multimedia authoring tools and deployment technologies.

Donat Group has been hired to create a "Reactive Learning Object" for the Science Alberta Foundation site: SciQ.ca. SciQ charged Donat with creating a learning object that would enable students located in different cities and countries to easily collaborate over science experiments using the Internet. Donat Group's technical and design expertise accompanied with core understanding of pedagogical issues made the Vancouver Company a clear choice as the development partner for SciQ.

David Gratton, President of Donat Group, will be presenting at the Alberta Online Consortium's Online Learning Symposium 2003. The session, "Sharing the Wealth: A Collaborative Approach to Developing Flexible E-Content", will be presented as part of a panel on November 19, 2003. See the session description.

Donat Information Design Group has incorporated and changed its name to Donat Group Enterprises Ltd. to better reflect the combination of technical and consulting nature of the work.

"We have had a lucrative and exciting year as Donat Information Design Group, but as we have grown in both services and revenue a new corporate structure and name was in order", said David Gratton, President of Donat Group. "We are looking forward to what the future will have in store for Donat Group Enterprises."

Donat Group is developing a strategy for converting Industry Canada's Fuel Cells 101 course to an interactive media presentation. Industry Canada and its partners produced a Fuel Cells 101 course to inform Canadians about the quickly emerging technology and the opportunities it represents. In order to expand the reach of this course, Industry Canada has hired Donat Group to develop a New Media strategy for the course content.