Harnessing Technological Change to Serve a Changing Student Demography: Strategies for Integrating Asynchronous Teaching and Learning Approaches. Videoconference #4; Making Technology Work: IT Takes an Institution

An institution's decision to provide online options to their students cannot be undertaken as an isolated program extension. It entails innovation in a broad range of campus support services: Admissions, the Registrar, Library, etc. This videoconference will deal with what needs to be done and how to get the players on board.

Between November 2001 and April 2002, AN-MSI sponsored a series of six two-hour interactive videoconferences dealing with online instruction and the changing technology that supports the new culture of asynchronous teaching and learning. The series facilitated the dialogue and planning that is needed to move MSIs toward more effective use of innovative networking and telecommunications technology for distance-developed instruction. The series emphasizes the broad set of changes that are needed to launch successful online instruction that responds to the needs of a changing and culturally diverse student demography.