Education Teleconference February 15, 2012

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Attendees

• Chair - Melva Peters
• Scribe - Diego Kaminker
• Mary Ann Boyle
• Patrick Loyd
• John Ritter
• Virginia Lorenzi

Agenda

• Vancouver WGM Tutorial Schedule
  • no issues
• Education Summit Tutorial Schedule
  • no issues
• Review of Project Status
  • Webinars Project
    • Diego reviewed the project and send the PSS to the Education List
    • Initial topics will include V2, V3 and CDA and will be run the same as an Ed Summit to start
    • hoping to do both live and recorded sessions, but for the pilot will be live sessions with a presenter
    • MOVED BY PATRICK LOYD - SECONDED BY DIEGO KAMINKER TO APPROVED THE WEBINAR PSS - CARRIED 5/0/0
    • Melva will forward to the Steering Dvision
  • Certification Enhancement Project
    • has been approved by SD
    • waiting for TSC approval
  • Tutorial Tracking System - DEFERRED
    • Melva to create page on Wiki and bring in content from WGM minutes
  • RIM Test Upgrade (Virginia)
    • Virginia reviewed the PSS to upgrade the RIM Test
    • this is not a new project - we didn't have dates attached previously
    • MnM has suggested using the RIM to be published in NE 2012
    • Heather Grain suggested that we include a list of competencies
    • there was discussion about updating the material using the new framework
    • this project is to update the existing material, but will try to include the framework as much as possible
    • need to ensure that this certification is marketed appropriately as there is some confusion
    • MOVED BY PATRICK LOYD - SECONDED BY VIRGINIA LORENZI TO APPROVED THE PSS - CARRIED 5/0/0
    • Melva will forward to SD for approval
• Discussion of Balloting 101 Tutorial - with Electronic Services
  • • Melva will reach out to Ken McCaslin and Lorraine Constable
• Education for Nurses - DEFERRED
• Next steps
  • Interim Co-Chair
    • Patrick Loyd volunteer to stand as interim co-chair and will put his name forward for the election at the May WGM
    • MOVED BY PATRICK LOYD AND SECONDED BY VIRGINIA LORENZI TO APPOINT PATRICK LOYD AS INTERIM CO-CHAIR UNTIL THE MAY 2012 WGM - CARRIED 5/0/0
  • Decision Making Practice
    • Melva indicated that she had reviewed the current Education DMP and it has not been updated since 2005
    • Melva confirmed that there is not a different process for approval of the Education DMP from other WG
    • Melva and Patrick will review and bring back comments to the next meeting
    • it was suggested that if possible we should just adopt the default DMP
• Any other Business
  • eLearning update - Diego
    • India - started yesterday
    • Canada - starting Feb 27 - 40 registered
    • Global edition - English - 180 registered - begins March 15
    • Global edition - Spanish - starts April 15
    • Austria - started this month

• Next meeting: February 29th at 10am Eastern