- Distance Learning Toward Consortia and
Collaboratories
Janet Poley, President/CEO, American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)
- Death of Distance
- Locating Anywhere - Stay in Touch
- Global Communities of Interest, Culture, Professions and Practice
- Worldwide Digital Libraries of resources
- Need for Improved Sorting and Management Systems and Tools
- Three Shift World
- Convergence
- Internet Matures
- Usage Grows
- Everyone Has A Stake
- Competition and Collaboration Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
- Need to Implement in An International Framework
- Advancing Distance Ed Systems
- Cataloging Learning Objects
- Open Systems/Meta-Data: IMS, Dublin Core, SCORM etc.
- International Networks and Organizations
- Consortia Are Essential for Making Progress and Expanding the
Market for
- Internet Based Learning
- ADEC and Consortium Development
- 60 State Universities & Land Grant Colleges
- 12 Years Old
- Public, Private, Government Partnerships
- International Partners and Affiliates
- Advancing Technology - National Science Foundation Grant-Wireless
- International Partners
- ICDE
- Chinese American Networking Seminar - University of Maryland
- Monterrey Tech, Mexico
- Russian Agricultural University Consortium
- What Size?
- Large -establish and adopt standards -programs of scale and scope
-risk-taking -may contain a number of smaller consortia/collaborations
- U.S.: ADEC, Educause,WETC,NTU
- International Consortia-Complex
- Homogeneity/Heterogeneity
- Finances
- Intellectual Property
- Legal Structures
- Licensing, Franchising
- Language, Cultural Differences
- Digital Divide
- ADEC - IDEAL Initiative
- Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (eArmyU)
- Credit Transfer, Tuition, Program Development
- Interoperable Technologies
- Digital Libraries
- Administration and Learner Support
- http://www.adec.edu
- Successful Consortia
- Open Access - Full Programs
- Ability to Transfer Courses
- Joint Planning-Avoid Duplication
- Marketing - Single Calendar
- Digital Libraries
- Counseling and Advising
- Choose Partners Wisely
- Common Goals
- Trust
- Sustaining Leadership
- Transparency of Governance and Finances
- Flexibility and Open to Change
- Successful Int’l Consortia
- High Competence
- Standard - Widely Used Technology-Lowest Common Denominator
- Asynchronous - Respect Learner’s Time
- Cost Effective
- Research and Evaluation
- Broad and Deep
- Challenges
- Pedagogy and Communication
- Curriculum - Design of Instruction
- Faculty
- Students
- Materials
- Accreditation and Assessment
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