Coalition to Save Eagleridge Bluffs have hired Donat Group to develop an advocacy Website to help raise awareness of the plight and encourage involvement in the saving of Eagleridge Bluffs in West Vancouver. Donat Group's experience in deploying eLearning content is directly applicable to the development of advocacy sites like EagleridgeBluffs.ca. Ensuring that a site is architected and designed to first inform and then motivate action is the essence of an advocacy site.

Donat Group has won a competitive bid to complete the Web design and production of an online training program for Housekeeping Room Attendants in both English and French for the Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council. The course will be delivered through the CTHRC Web-based Learning Management System (LMS), and is slated for delivery in March 2005. Donat Group will be applying its extensive experience working with Instructional Designers to develop outstanding interactive content for the CTHRC's online training.

David Gratton will be delivering a workshop on eLearning Standards along with Solvig Norman of OpenSchool BC, and Geoff Collier of EduWorks.

Workshop Synopsis

Competitive Advantage: E-Learning Specifications and Standards
Vancouver Convention Centre October 13 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

More and more, purchasers are looking to e-learning products that are
interoperable using open standards. They want to:

• improve the choices that reduce their risk;
• implement durable solutions;
• obtain flexibility; and
• benefit from quality.

Socrates Learning Systems is expanding the range of features and services that it offers its clients like Wal-mart and Zellers, by developing a personal learning portal. The portal will still provide a standard and SCORM compliant course management system, but it will also include a mentoring module, a content creation toolkit, and a rich media executive communications module.

Donat Group will be building an interactive simulation for Alberta Learning for release in the Fall of 2004. The project is an interactive kitchen constructed in isometric space (ala the Sims) that will aid students in learning the proper procedures for the safe handling and preparation of chicken.