Learning Oriented Policies in a
Bandwidth Crazy World

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  1. Learning Oriented Policies in A Bandwidth Crazy World
    Jan Poley, ADEC
    Dean Sutphin, Cornell
    Joan Laughlin, UNL

  2. Effects of Internet Based Instruction On Learning
    • In many institutions the change to an Internet based system has been instituted with little or no consideration for the impact on student learning

  3. Learning is About Making Connections
    • Neurological
    • Cognitive
    • Social
    • Experiential

  4. Technology, Learning, Community
    • "Learning has many ends."
    • "Teaching has one end - to enable learning."
    • It is important to create more learner centered college and universities

  5. Organizational Renewal NOT Just Money on Bandwidth
    • 1996 Telecom Act Flawed
    • Greater Concetration/Megamergers
    • Increased Costs
    • Focused Capital Away from Access and Service Innovation - Favors Network Infrastructure
    • More Connectivity than Uses

  6. Bandwidth Supply and Demand
    • Assuming new applications and 30% annual growth in usage for current applications, there will be a 20 fold increase in bandwidth demand by 2001 - there is a severe oversupply: 400 times incrase in supply

  7. Universities Should care About Scholarship/Access/Innovation
    • Relationships
    • Ethics
    • Values
    • Collaboration
    • Service
    • Globalization

  8. Creating Success
    • "the most succesful universities - the ones that others will want to emulate - will be establishing design sensibilities that create new ideas for marketplaces as well as maketplaces for ideas." - Michael Schrage

  9. The Full Motion Video Myth for Learning Applications
    • Television & Internet Convergence
    • 50 years of Television Research - What Makes a Difference?
    • Sight, Sound, Text, Cueing
    • Content, Packaging, Dissemination, Manipulation, Terminals
    • Attribute Analysis, Virtual Reality

  10. ADEC "IDEAL" Distance Education Initiative
    • "Be it resolved that ADEC will promote multi-institutional collaboration and develop a climate to better define interconnected educational and business practives and procedures ... draw up on our collective resources more efficiently through collaborative efforts."

  11. Resolutions
    • Better respond to the needs and priorities of our clientele as we use advanced communication technologies together.
    • Use ADEC financial resources to support programs consistent with interconnection, interoperability and collaboration

  12. Framework for Succcesful Change
    • In Colleges/Universities top-down bureaucratic centralized corporate strategies don't work and are counterproductive
    • Scarce resource today is not Bandwidth, but people who can create and innovate in the knowledge age

  13. Maslow Had It Right
    • The more evolved people get, the more psychologically healthy they get. More enlightened management policy is ncessary in order to survive in competition, and the more handicapped an enterprise with an authoritarian policy will be.

  14. The Four Cultures of the Academy
    • Collegial
    • Managerial
    • Developmental
    • Negotiating

  15. Birnbaum's Shared Leadership
    • Structurally Congruent
    • Values Quality and Civility
    • Politics Enabling not disabling
    • Collegial-ideas, decisions and behaviors of many not just ascribed positions
    • Must be Shared Responsibility
    • Committed, Loyal to Organization

  16. Successful Collaborative Outcomes
    • Competence
    • Shared, Understood Goal
    • Mutual Respect, Tolerance & Trust
    • Creation and Manipulation of Shared Spaces
    • Multiple Forms of Representation
    • Continuous Communication

  17. Collaboration (cont.)
    • Formal and Informal Environments
    • Clear Lines of Responsibility but Not Resctrictive Boundaries
    • Decisions Not by Consensus
    • Physical Presence Not Necessary
    • Selective Use of Outsiders for Insights

  18. IDEAL 1
    • Standards for Academic Credit Transfer
    • Develop nationally available database and administrative systems for cataloging, listing, marketing and evaluation of distance learning products
    • Eliminate outmoded "turf" barriers collaboratively

  19. IDEAL 1 (cont.)
    • Collaborate to design and develop multi-institutional modules, curriculum, systems that are faculty-based and market-driven
    • Review and define quality distance education criteria and assessment tools

  20. IDEAL 1
    • Guidelines for Articulation
    • Distance Education-Ready Checklist
    • Turf Survey
    • Guiding Principles for Distance Teaching and Learning

  21. IDEAL 2
    • Elements Needing Further Attention
    • Develop IDEAL publication of Recommendations and Best Practices
    • Further Develop ADEC Web Site and Collaborate with other Organizations
    • Plan a National Videoconference (4/13)
    • Learning Center Survey

  22. Key Questions-Many
    • Broaden Participation?
    • Empower Faculty/Critical Mass?
    • Eliminate Roadblocks
    • Gain Support of Administrators?
    • Develop Appropriate Partnerships?
    • Federal Grans and Other Funding Support?

  23. Continuous Improvement
    • Evaluation
    • Ideas from the national Videoconference
    • "See the World from Their Perspective
    • Analyze Issues, Look for Unrealized Opportunities, Examples of Financial Success, Interoperability and Overcoming Barriers

  24. Work with NASULGC to:
    • Return to Our Roots
    • Be An Engaged University
    • Critical Part of the Learning Society
    • (Let's Not Be Bandwidth Crazy)