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Partnering in the Learning MarketspaceBuilding Economies of Scale through CollaborationMonday, January 27, 2003 Jay Fern, Academic and Faculty Services, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Gerd Kortemeyer, Asst Professor of Physics Education; Director, LON-CAPA Project, Michigan State University Karen M. Partlow, Assoc Director for Technology Collaboration, Committee on Institutional Cooperation Representatives from three institutions will discuss their experiences in collaborating across institutional boundaries to achieve more than what could be achieved individually. Three different types of collaborative efforts will be discussed. The roadblock to interinstitutional sharing of online courses is rarely technology; more often administrative issues like student registration, grade and credit transfers, intellectual property policies, academic calendars, tuition sharing, and the like are greater obstacles. The CIC, an academic consortium of 12 large research universities in the Midwest, has committed to creating an administrative solution to interinstitutional course sharing, scheduled as a pilot in spring semester 2003. The CIC CourseShare Web application will be overviewed, highlighting its support of the necessary information sharing between collaborating universities. Special considerations for related interinstitutional agreements among deans participating in the experimental shared courses will be discussed. The session will include examples of the Oncourse system's evolutionary transition plan for OKI conversion over the next two years through OKI partnerships and developing and leveraging those partnerships along with methods of cost savings by leveraging existing resources for support—both technically and pedagogically—the evolutionary transition plan for OKI conversion and developing and leveraging those partnerships along the way; and the LearningOnline Network with Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach (LON-CAPA) as a distributed Learning Content Management and Assessment System. Community Partners for the Knowledge AgeTuesday, January 28, 2003 Nancy E. Franklin, Senior Director for Information Technology, Virginia Tech Anne H. Moore, Associate Vice President, Learning Technologies, Virginia Tech Virginia Tech has partnered with municipal governments, private business, K–12, higher education institutions, and a local foundation in Southside Virginia to turn a community's imagination toward transforming its distressed economy from one based on textiles and tobacco to one based on network economy initiatives. By focusing on developing advanced network infrastructure and simultaneously building the associated human infrastructure through innovative educational and research initiatives, the partners are taking aggressive steps to increase educational opportunities and attainment in areas particularly critical to network economy employment and to change the culture of a region over time. This session will outline modern engagement strategies that could serve as a proof-of-concept for such transformational activities and lead to replicable models for complex partnerships in the learning marketspace. Related article from NLII 2002-2003 Annual Review: "Come Together: Campuses Find the Road to Success Lined with Partnerships and Collaborations"
Sunday, January 26, 2003 The State-Wide Virtual University in TransitionTuesday, January 28, 2003 Rhonda Epper, Executive Co-Director - CCCOnline, Colorado Community College System A few years ago, one could easily detect a growing sense of hope and prosperity for virtual universities in America. Many state leaders believed that distance learning could expand educational access and increase economic development, and that putting resources into a consortial virtual university made sense financially. State-wide agencies saw opportunities to explore, develop, and influence policy innovation outside of traditional structures. Presently, more than 70 state-wide or system-wide virtual universities exist in various forms, and yet we know relatively little about them and their impact on American higher education. The State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) and the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET) have cosponsored a national study of consortia-based virtual colleges and universities to help state policy leaders better understand and assess the role of virtual universities in meeting state education goals. In this session, researchers will make the first public release of findings from the study, while addressing such questions as, Is there a need for virtual universities as separate organizational entities, or are they best seen as temporary, transitory instruments of change? What are the major successes, failures, and unexpected outcomes of virtual universities? |
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