Making It Rain: Organizing Ourselves to Enable the Transformation of Learning Using Technology

Abstract

Many institutions are experiencing significant and measurable changes in the nature of their day-to-day teaching and learning practices that are enabled by the revolutions in information and communication technologies. For most, however, the vision of an enterprise-wide transformation of teaching and learning is not yet realized or perhaps not even widely accepted.

At Brigham Young University we find ourselves engaged in initiatives related to many of the NLII key themes and learning about the strategies, processes and resources required to integrate them into an enterprise e-learning system. Our presentation will share the lessons learned and progress made by partnering with vendors in the creation of a next-generation e-learning infrastructure, preparing for a Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)-compliant repository, redesigning large courses, supporting exponential growth in the use of our course management system, bridging our high-enrolling distance education efforts to the campus mission, and reinventing and uniting once disconnected support organizations.