Join OLC for a Webinar: Program Effectiveness – How the Dashboard Can Help You

January 5, 2012 — ontarioliteracycoalition

Join OLC for our first webinar of the new year- Program Effectiveness – How the Dashboard Can Help You. Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 1:00PM ET, Alan Middleton, Executive Director of Schulich Executive Education Centre and Assistant Professor of Marketing at Schulich School of Business at York University will you through how developing a Dashboard works to help identify the effectiveness of your marketing and marketing communications programs.

Too often organizations fail to measure both the effectiveness and Return on Investment (ROI) of their marketing and marketing communications activity using unsubstantiated data. The Dashboard is a tool that provides a format to help organizations plot their activities and direct the measurement of effectiveness. How can there be improvement without measurement?

In this free, one hour webinar, Alan will:

  • Introduce the performance Dashboard as a tool for checking the effectiveness of programs
  • Describe how the Dashboard works and its measures
  • Use marketing and marketing communications Dashboards as examples
  • Indicate how to develop a program Dashboard

To register for the webinar, please visit https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/992879198.

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Join OLC for Webinar on Knowledge Mobilization

November 18, 2011 — ontarioliteracycoalition

Join OLC Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 1:00PM ET for our webinar: Knowledge Mobilization & Adult Literacy – Tips & Tools for Research to Better Inform Literacy Policy & Practice, hosted by Michael Johnny, Manager of Knowledge Mobilization at York University.

This free, one hour session will provide an introduction and overview to knowledge mobilization, which is becoming increasingly prevalent at universities across Canada as a process to maximize the impact of research.  This session will share the experiences of York University’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit and its numerous interactions within the adult literacy field.

In this webinar, participants will learn:

  • What Knowledge Mobilization is;
  • How is it supported at York University (especially in relation to adult literacy in Ontario); and
  • What the strategies are for literacy practitioners to utilize research to inform professional practice and public policy.

There will also be time for questions at the end of the webinar.

To register for the webinar, please click here or visit http://www.spotlightonlearning.ca/content/december-2011

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Join OLC for Webinar on Labour Market Agreements!

November 3, 2011 — ontarioliteracycoalition

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 1:00PM ET, OLC is hosting Labour Market Agreements: What Literacy & Essential Skills Programs Need to Know – a free webinar presented by Brigid Hayes, Principal at Brigid Hayes Consulting.

The federal government has passed responsibility for labour market training to the provinces and territories.  Each year, through the Labour Market Agreements (LMA), the provinces and territories receive over $500 million for training people who are not eligible under Employment Insurance (EI).  A particular feature of the LMAs is the priority placed on those with low levels of Essential Skills and/or without a high school credential.  These agreements have already affected how and to whom literacy and essential skills services are delivered.

This FREE, one-hour webinar will provide you with:
• An overview of the labour market agreements – what are they, how they work, and why they are important
• What has been happening in other provinces and territories
• The Ontario situation – a review of how Ontario has chosen to spend its LMA funding, especially to support literacy and essential skills
• Challenges and opportunities – why this should matter to the literacy community and what might be done to enhance LMA literacy and essential skills activities

For more information or to register for the webinar, please click here or visit https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/242553886.

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Literacy and the Justice System Conference – November 15, 2011

October 7, 2011 — ontarioliteracycoalition

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 from 12:30PM-5:00PM join Frontier College and Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre for their Literacy and the Justice System Conference, in partnership with Literacy Link South Central, and sponsored by the OLC at the Civic Gardens Complex – 625 Springbank Drive, London, ON. This conference is geared toward Police Officers, Probation and Parole Officers, Correctional Staff, Educators, Community Workers and Volunteers.

$20 per participant, with free parking. Registration deadline is November 8 – register soon as space is limited!

Please click Literacy and the Justice System Conference Speaker Agenda for more information. Download the registration form here: Literacy and the Justice System Conference Registration Form

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Join OLC’s Free Webinar on Continuous Improvement!

October 6, 2011 — ontarioliteracycoalition

Tuesday, October 18 at 1:00PM EDT, join OLC for our fourth webinar - What is Continuous Improvement? What you Should Know about Lean – hosted by Tracy Defoe, President of The Learning Factor Inc.

This free, one-hour webinar focuses on what workplace learning practitioners, especially those specialized in literacy and essential skills, need to know about Continuous Improvement (also known as Lean) as a workplace culture imperative for many industries worldwide. Understanding Continuous Improvement helps in communicating, working effectively, and tailoring content and methods for workplaces on a Lean journey.

In this webinar we will:

• Introduce the basic concepts of Continuous Improvement
• Consider the learning demands of Continuous Improvement on the individual, the team, and the organization
• Review examples of material, approaches, and learning from real life experience and from  literature
• Flag some of the contested terrain of Lean in workplaces
• Discuss your questions, and leave with a resource list for further learning

We will also be tweeting during the webinar, so please join our conversation the day of the webinar through the hashtag #OLCweb! To register for the webinar, please click here.

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A Look into International Literacy Day 2011

September 12, 2011 — ontarioliteracycoalition

OLC would like to send out a big thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s International Literacy Day! Social media outlets were bustling with participation, statistics, and comments! The Social Media Guide created by OLC, ABC Life Literacy Canada, and Frontier College was well received and well used! Twitter was buzzing with individuals and organizations tweeting about International Literacy Day! With almost 1,500 tweets under the #IntLitDay hashtag alone, even some celebrities participated via Twitter – singer Shakira, and actress Ashley Judd! What was happening around the world during International Literacy Day? According to Twitter:

  • The Nova Scotia School for Adult Learning was busy handing out their 2011 International Literacy Day awards
  • Honorable David Johnson, Governor General of Canada, wrote a message for International Literacy Day
  • USAID,  in cooperation with NASA, shared a special taped video message from astronauts at the International Space Station, encouraging world leaders to continue efforts to improve literacy rates around the world to open the celebration of international literacy
  • UNESCO posted a video explaining why literacy means peace
  • Vegmin Learning in Alberta was busy celebrating with their Bucks 4 Books Hot Dog Sale
  • Children were engaged at a University of Laos reading festival 
  • The Florida Literacy Coalition added these tips for teaching English to ESL and ESOL students
… and much more! To check out what other individuals and organizations were up to this International Literacy Day via Twitter, simply look up the #IntLitDay hashtag, and don’t forget to continue to promote literacy and essential skills every day!
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