Established August 1993 Website ccdmd.qc.ca Founded August 1993 | Director Bernard Dionne Province Québec Phone +1 514-873-2200 | |
Address 3800 Sherbrooke St E, Montreal, QC H1X 2A2, Canada Hours Closed now Wednesday9AM–5PMThursday9AM–5PMFriday9AM–5PMSaturdayClosedSundayClosedMonday9AM–5PMTuesday9AM–5PM Similar Collège de Maisonne, Rosemont College, Allô prof, Formation à distance SOFAD, Collège Ahuntsic | ||
The Collegial Centre for Educational Materials Development (CCDMD) produces computer-based resources and printed documents for teaching staff and students throughout the Quebec college network, and is managed by Collège de Maisonneuve.
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History
The CCDMD was founded in 1993 further to a major revamping of the Direction générale de l’enseignement collégial (directorate of college education) in Quebec. It was previously a division of the Department of Education, called Service de développement de matériel didactique (department for educational materials development), whose role was to provide educational, technical and financial support to college teachers wishing to produce quality printed or computer-based educational material. When its administration was transferred to Collège de Maisonneuve in 1993, it became the CCDMD.
The centre is funded mainly by the ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport du Québec, and some of its services are also supported by funding from the Canada-Quebec Agreement on Minority-Language Education and Second Languages Instruction.
Mandate
The mandate of the CCDMD is to ensure that students and teachers of the Quebec college network have access to quality educational materials in both English and French, and also to contribute to the development of these materials at the various stages of production. Most documents produced by the CCDMD are developed by teachers within the college network or by outside specialists supported by a member of the teaching faculty and academic dean of a college. A call for projects is held each year from November to March, providing the opportunity for any teaching or professional staff member among the 48 public or 22 private colleges in Quebec to submit a project for the development of educational materials, by completing a project presentation form.
The CCDMD on iTunes U
The CCDMD joined iTunes University (iTunes U) in December 2010. It is the first college organization to make educational content available on this distribution platform, and the third educational institution in Quebec to join, after University of Montreal and McGill University. The CCDMD has been distributing videos for six of its products on iTtunes U, thereby providing teachers and students with ready and free access to audio and video educational content. The files can be viewed or downloaded wherever you are on a Mac OS or Windows workstation, or on a digital player, and an interface is available for both the iPad and iPhone.