The Media Futures Institute creates and produces leading-edge professional development in media systems and processes. It also develops and integrates digital learning technologies and tools, applicable to training, and to knowledge media environments and models.

The Institute works with companies, institutions, and organizations, to develop successful partnerships for knowledge building. Benefits to strategic partners include community-empowering joint ventures, business and product incubation, training opportunities, information- and resource-sharing, and community development.

Our History in Professional Development

Over the past two decades, in both Canada and the United States, the Media Futures Institute has offered a variety of intensive workshops and courses in association with educational institutions, industry associations, and development organizations, addressing the needs of the media industries:
¶ book, magazine, newspaper publishing
¶ digital, broadcast, and multimedia production
¶ institutional, organizational, and corporate communications.

We define media industries as those that produce print or electronic communications, whether consumer, professional, technical, or market oriented, with either internal or external audiences.

Some of the organizations we have provided professional development for include:
¶ Canadian and Ontario Museums Associations
¶ Canadian Library Association
¶ Canadian and Alberta Book and Periodical Development Organizations
¶ Canadian General Accountants Association
¶ Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education
¶ United Nations, Development Program for Women
¶ Governments of Manitoba and Saskatchewan
¶ University of Toronto, Simon Fraser University, New York University
¶ The Banff Centre

Developing New Interactive Learning Tools

The Media Futures Institute utilizes its background and experience in broadly inclusive knowledge and skill training in media culture to build collaborative, Internet-based learning projects, tools, and technologies. The following are some of the key projects we have completed:

¶ No Holiday in the Mountains The Banff and Toronto Publishing Workshops, 1980-1995
¶ Media and Metaphoria Learning from Print Culture, 1990-1998
¶ Seasons of the Spirit Interactive Ecumenical Curriculum, 1998-2000
¶ Technology for Teleteaching Resources for Online Learning Environments, 1998-2001
¶ The Future As Now Bitstream Data Compression Technology and the Internet, 2000-2002
¶ Museum as Mentor Learning from History at the Museum, 2001
¶ Content Management in Context Needs, Opportunity and Product Analysis, 2003
¶ How to Cook a Book Writing and Publishing Food and Drink Media, 2004
¶ Information & Referral Media in a Community Support Context, 2005

To learn more about these projects, and those we are currently working on, fill out this form: