What if Case

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What if Case

• Is there reason for a new apprentice training
  model?

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What if case apprenticeship

• With Supernet bringing rich support for digital
  resources
• With increased demands for more trades people
• With trades candidates requiring training, where
  and when it suits them

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What if case apprenticeship

• What if there were an MLA report on Rural
  Alberta Land of Opportunity
• that is sounding the alarm for accelerated needs
  to re-examine rural needs
• There is one see March 2002
• http//www.rural.gov.ab.ca/ralo_report.pdf

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Rural Alberta Land of Opportunity

• Provide rural Alberta with reasonable local
  access to post secondary, technical and
  professional training and development.
• improve access to trades training in rural
  Alberta
• explore and, where possible, implement
  alternate delivery of education, including use of
  information technology and flexible times and
  locations

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Rural Alberta Land of Opportunity

• promote rural Alberta as an opportunity and
  provide targeted support for rural grow your
  own retention of professionals
• locate to rural Alberta apprenticeship programs
  that have a predominant presence in rural-based
  industries
• Implement the rural focused recommendations
  contained in the report of the MLA Committee on
  Lifelong Learning (see below for detailed
  identification of applicable recommendations)

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What if case apprenticeship

• What if there were a Final Report of the MLA
  Committee on Lifelong Learning?
• Where a Distance Trades delivery concept could
  address 8 of their 17 recommendations?
• There is one see May 2002
  http//www.learning.gov.ab.ca/reports/special/rep
  ort.pdf

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Final Report of the MLA Committee on Lifelong
Learning

• 1 Enhance the flexibility of learning
  opportunities
• 3 Enhance community-based learning
• 4 Promote trades as a career choice
• 5 Provide more opportunities for applied
  learning

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Final Report of the MLA Committee on Lifelong
Learning

• 6 Encourage learning providers to collaborate
  for adult upgrading opportunities in adult
  settings
• 12 Encourage government and employers to support
  lifelong learning
• 13 Achieve effective use of technology,
  including learning technologies
• 16 Develop a policy framework for lifelong
  learning

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What if case apprenticeship
What if Alberta Learning had a new Learning and
Technology Policy Framework?
July 2004 http//www.learning.gov.ab.ca/
reading/policy/techframework/LTfwrk.pdf

• Vision ICT supports Albertas globally
  recognized learning community

• What if we could impact all 9 goals and all 10
  policy directions?

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What if case apprenticeship

• What if NAIT could demonstrate success with
  videoconference /or webcast, distance delivery?
• RACOL Welding to 9 students in 5 sites Feb
  Apr 04 apprentices took evening theory classes
  and remained on the job all 9 passed AIT exams
• Court Reporting course to increase efficacy of
  student operation of transcription machines
  now in 7th offering published at CADE
  www.cade-aced.ca Search Publications King or
  Fricker
• Delivered Power Engineering to 12-person cohort
  at The Learning Center (an Alberta Community
  Learning Network member), Hanna AB employed
  local journeyman as tutor

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What if case apprenticeship
What if Alberta Learning issued a Call For
Proposals Implementation of Videoconferencing
Programs to Support Student and Educator
Learning? Sept
20, 2004

• Quickly ramp-up and move from lofty, collegial
  concept to full project design!

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What if case apprenticeship

• What if Alberta Apprenticeship Industry Training
  (AIT) were willing to provide limited resources
  to equal educational support at the same level as
  traditional offerings?
• What if two educational consortia were willing to
  contract for the educational provision of
  students in a pre-trades offering?
• What if NAITs new Northwest campuses might have
  student demand where only one, or a few students
  are available at one or more campuses?

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What if case apprenticeshipThe three
imperatives

• Save students - avoid need for second
  residence, travel, etc.
• Let student continue work No EI
• Promote students remaining in their home community

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What if case apprenticeship

• To deliver theory by videoconference and webcast
• To examine other computer-mediated communication
• To offer site visits or super weekends in NAIT
  shops
• To augment paper-based distance apprenticeship
  programs in Welder, Electrician, or Millwright

• What if NAIT DATE
• Distance Apprenticeship Training and
• Education were ready?

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What if case apprenticeshipWho needs to be
involved?

• NAIT Program Heads and Deans
• Curriculum designers
• Videoconference technicians/managers
• Other post secondary institutions in Alberta
• Apprenticeship Industry Training
• Education consortia YREC PEC
• K-12 School Division FVSD
• Community Learning Network
• External evaluation
• A guidance team of acknowledged experts

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What if case apprenticeship

• What if NAIT had two mobile trades training
  units?

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Inside the NAIT In-motion mobile trailers
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What if case apprenticeship

• If you have interest, opinions, opportunities,
• please call or contact
• Bill Fricker
• Technology Integration Marketing Innovations
  Consultant
• 780-471-7862 billf_at_nait.ca