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OSAPAC Mandate
The Mandate of the Ontario Software Acquisition Program Advisory Committee (OSAPAC) is to:
- consult with the publicly funded education system (e.g., annual survey, attendance at conferences, liaison with subject associations) to assess provincial priorities in the areas of required software titles recommended by teachers in support of learning;
- review software titles submitted under the Ministry's Requests For Proposals (RFP), Request for Tender (RFT) and Request for Qualification (RFQ) processes that meet the indicated needs of all Ontario publicly funded schools and forward the resulting recommendations for province-wide licenses to the Ministry of Education;
- maintain for the Ministry of Education, a web-enabled database, in both official languages of all provincially licensed software;
- inform educators of the OSAPAC process and of the licensed software titles available to all publicly funded schools;
- provide additional support, including professional development opportunities, where appropriate and available for the implementation of provincially licensed software;
- maintain a web site and a conferencing system to keep all interested parties informed of the business of the Committee and to provide a feedback mechanism for software related issues;
- maintain a web-enabled database of Ontario curriculum expectations linked to provincially licensed software titles.
- consult with the publicly funded education system (e.g., annual survey, attendance at conferences, liaison with subject associations) to assess provincial priorities in the areas of required software titles recommended by teachers in support of learning.
Committee
John Taylor
Ivan
Strachan
Thunder
Bay Catholic District School Board
Chair,
Public Relations
Marc LijourMinistry
of Education
Bob Baran
London District Catholic
School Board
Repository Manager
Mark Carbone
Waterloo Region District School Board
Luc Chalifoux
Conseiller pédagogique
- FARE NORD
Translations
Sophie Godbout
Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario
Yves
Mainville
Conseil scolaire de
district des écoles catholiques du Sud-Ouest
Curriculum Connections
Paula
Mooney
Upper
Canada District School Board
Curriculum
Connections Coordinator, Recorder
Doug
Peterson
Greater
Essex County District School Board
Webmaster
John
Rutledge
University
of Western Ontario, Faculty of Education
Database
Administrator
Danuta Woloszynowicz
Simcoe Muskoka
Catholic District School Board
FirstClass
Administrator,
Public Relations