This request for proposal (RFP) is an invitation by Mitacs to prospective proponents to submit proposals for the provision of curriculum development services, as further described in the deliverables.
Established in 1999, Mitacs is a national, not-for-profit organization that designs and delivers research and training programs in Canada. Working with over 60 academic partners, thousands of companies, and both federal and provincial governments, Mitacs builds partnerships that support industrial and social innovation in Canada.
Open to all disciplines since 2007, Mitacs designs and delivers research and development programs that provide opportunities for advanced research, skills training, and work-integrated learning. Mitacs’s approach to innovation leverages college, undergraduate, and graduate student, and post-doctoral fellow mobility as a mechanism for collaboration. We build relationships among businesses and not-for-profit organizations, post-secondary education institutions, and governments to create solutions that enable economic growth and sustainable development.
The goal of this project is to identify external curriculum development expertise to support learning and experience of future delivery of Mitacs skills development courses through:
• Developing curriculum that:
o Align with Mitacs’s competency areas
o Enhance interns’ and fellows’ professional skills that complement their education in order to improve the “employability of students and postdoctoral fellows in their respective fields”
o Provide online/live-online opportunities to interns and fellows
o Provide relevant learner-centered content that reflect and can be applied to interns’ and fellows’ situation, level, and context
• Identifying appropriate topic titles that match industry naming conventions and reflect learning outcomes for Mitacs’s curriculum;
• Streamlining of experience and flow of content (create syllabus, streamline learning objectives);
• Developing and/or updating content, materials, and activities to reflect learning objectives;
• Incorporating reconciliation and inclusiveness in Mitacs’s curriculum;
• Reviewing current feedback process and providing recommendations on how to best align the feedback process with curriculum evaluation criteria.
The optional goal of this project is facilitating the production of online/live-online courses through:
• Project managing the development of online/live-online courses;
• Liaising with production company as needed.
