Elearning strategies

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eLearning Strategies - discussion topic Day 2 OUCEL

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 3:20 PM

Bettina, Sandy, Laurie, Wendy, Andrew

Sandy - 5 parts of department, brainstormed educational development.

How to reform staff? Have a process piece - did an exercise like a compass - what are main directions/factors (service is compass N - how we reach students, Innovations - W, Integration - E, in middle. Guiding question - what is a word that characterized what is valued.

Want to look at values instead of role.

Academic Admin wants to know what you're doing. How are we connecting to the institutional strategic wagon - align with strategies

Sandy - looked at gps of people that we service - are we working with individuals (micro, mezzo, macro, mezzo) who do you work with, examples of your functionality at each levels and percentages of where we have our focus - i.e. outside u to conferences, research. Where should we be more uni focused vs unit focus? Are we where we might like to be?

American institution did similar evaluation - are doing enough workshops. 4 levels of customer groups. (Sandy has reference) A way of looking at what you're doing.

The Inner game of tennis - by Timothy Gallwey. The Inner game of work - what we focus on at work - focus, perceptions of work and how we view it. Started being a tennis coach, and all thought on backhand is never going to get it, to shift focus to at what height did ball come, where is ti coming from - inner self will perform better. Trusting inner self vs. societal rules. Triangle - performance, learning, and enjoyment - keep them all in balance.

Putting together elearning strat - who do we care about - students, money, faculty, quality. Using Chickering and Gamson, Aldo's guiding principles fit well - Developing a strategy is like mapping exercise - how unit activities fit with organizational strategies to inform leadership what you are doing.

Institutional goals not easily ID'd with what they are actually doing. How to accommodate expanding services, what do your clients value - what they say and what they value are often very different. Sometimes institutional strategy isn't very specific - i..e how to increase class size at first and second year level by offering some hybrid options. IN order to serve students well - use right technology, that right evaluation methods in place.

Want a strategy document in place to better describe role of department by Sept 2011 - put process in place for this fall to get to Senate. Currently elearning is a working group. How cost effective is it to run some of the things being proposed? Some of technology in place, been piloted for a while, may work well in F2F, and other such as podcasting - how does it fit into F2F or should it be applied in distance or hybrid learning. Prioritizing services.

Mac - Podcast Producer - screen capture - Andrew McAllister, OCAD

How to start" What matters to us? What view do we take? - from services provided, student focus, faculty focus, $ focus, all of above. On front end - what is educational goal and who's it serving. What are we doing it? What is it providing? "Pick your ground"

Strategy - how are you going to get there. Do you want to be at the front of innovation? Can you be at the front of it? What's your focus going to be?

Strategy will change based on senior admin - Need to have an e-learning strategy - feels like driving through a fog. Also need to provide details about how going to get there. Want to have a framework to make decisions and choices about how to support faculty and others wanting to explore and try out new initiatives.

Example: Academic Policy /Use of computing Strategy could be 2 yrs - results oriented and results focused. University policy/logic in formation of group - i.e. Sandy - DE cared about instructional design in CE, new pieces added in - all fit together .