Mandate

OSAPAC/CCPALO transforms learning and teaching by strategically developing, promoting and licensing digital resources that enable deeper learning for all through communicating, collaborating, modelling and sharing what complex learning looks, sounds and feels like in a technology enabled learning environment.

The OSAPAC Mandate 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.