The Company’s Associates

The company draws primarily on the experience of Tony Bates, with respect to research into planning and management of e-learning (see maple.ubc.ca) and his experience in managing and designing e-learning and distance education over a 35 year career.

However, in addition to Tony Bates, the company can, through its part-time associates, draw on a wide range of specialist expertise in the following areas:

  • course design
  • learning objects
  • research into e-learning
  • e-portfolios
  • business planning for e-learning/distance programs
  • strategic planning (especially articulating e-learning/distance education with institutional plans
  • choosing appropriate learning and content management systems
  • web design
  • measuring costs and cost-effectiveness
  • evaluation of e-learning/distance education