Caribbean tourism educators to undergo training in on-line course development

Some 25 Caribbean educators will be exposed to effective methods of designing on-line courses during a week-long workshop organized by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) on May 17-21.

The workshop on Instructional Design Processes for On-Line Learning targets Caribbean tertiary institutions which offer tourism/hospitality programs at the associate degree level. It is administered through the Caribbean Tourism Human Resource Council (CTHRC).

Set up in 1998, CTHRC operates under the aegis of the CTO)and plays a key role in helping to coordinate tourism human resource development activities and initiatives in the Caribbean, with a special emphasis on tourism education and training activities in the formal system of education.

The course developers will be introduced to the process of creating multimedia courseware, the tools needed to create the courseware and the skills necessary to teach effectively in an online environment. They will also begin preliminary development of a multimedia course for online delivery.

The workshop is part of the Caribbean Tourism Learning System (CTLS) developed by CTO/CTHRC and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Education Reform Unit (OERU). The CTLS is financed by the Canadian International Development Agency’s Caribbean Regional Human Resource Development Programme for Economic Competitiveness (CPEC).