Most institutions accumulate learning tools without a coherent strategy — an LMS here, a video platform there, a polling tool adopted by one faculty and unknown to the rest. The result is redundancy, shadow IT, poor integration, and no clear process for evaluating, adopting, or sunsetting tools.
When someone asks “should we adopt this new tool?”, there’s no good process for answering. When a vendor contract comes up for renewal, there’s no structured way to assess whether the tool is still earning its place. When a privacy question arises, there’s no governance body with the mandate to make the call.
I can help institutions fix this.
What an engagement looks like
Platform ecosystem audit
A comprehensive review of your institution’s learning technology landscape — what tools you have, who uses them, how they’re governed, where the gaps and redundancies are. Delivered as a strategic assessment with prioritized recommendations.
Governance framework design
Building the committee structures, decision criteria, and evaluation processes your institution needs to make coherent technology decisions. This includes drafting terms of reference, defining roles and responsibilities, and designing review cycles.
This isn’t about creating bureaucracy — it’s about creating clarity. Good governance makes decisions faster, not slower, because people know where to go and what criteria matter.
Platform selection support
When you’re choosing a new LMS, video platform, or other core learning tool, I can help structure the evaluation — defining requirements, managing vendor demonstrations, facilitating stakeholder input, and ensuring the decision accounts for pedagogy, accessibility, privacy, and integration.
Why me
I worked with university leadership — including Provosts, Vice-Provosts Teaching & Learning, and CIOs — to collaboratively build the University of Calgary’s learning technology governance structure. That included the Learning Technologies Advisory Committee and D2L Steering Committee, governing an ecosystem spanning D2L Brightspace, Zoom, YuJa, Top Hat, Gradescope, Explorance Blue, and more.
I’ve also conducted comparative analyses of governance models at Canada’s top research universities, so I can help you learn from what others have done without reinventing the wheel.
This work requires understanding institutional politics as much as technology. I’ve been navigating both for over thirty years.