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Collaboration vs. Autonomy
- 1. WCET Conference - Denver 2009 Autonomy vs. Collaboration How to build collaborative system services for educators. Paul Stacey Director - Communications, Stakeholder & Academic Relations [email_address]
- 2. WCET Conference - Denver 2009 Collaboration Autonomy Brand Independence “ Ownership” of students & faculty Self-sufficiency Incentives/Motivators $ additional Make it possible to do what can’t do on own More students Expanded services Expanded offerings Fill capacity savings Reduce IT overhead staff Infrastructure operation/maintenance Fit with business rules Groups - advisory, planning, strategic Government velvet glove/iron fist or hands off? Policy/mandate/legislation System view
- 3. WCET Conference - Denver 2009 BCcampus Four Areas of Collaboration: Student Services & Data Exchange Post-Secondary Application for Admissions Service Online Course & Program Finder AskAway Virtual Library Reference Service BC Learning Gateway Curriculum Development & Delivery Online Program Development Fund E-PPRENTICE Flexible Learning Funding Collaborative Multi-institutional Programs Applied Research Grants = collaborations profiled in this presentation
- 4. WCET Conference - Denver 2009 BCcampus Four Areas of Collaboration: Information Communications Technology Shared Services Moodle Desire2Learn Elluminate Adobe Connect Communities & Academic Growth Educational Technology Users Group (etug.ca) SCoPE webinars (scope.bccampus.ca) Learn Together Collaboratory (ltcollaboratory.org) Mental Health, Campus Climate Network, and other online communities
- 5. WCET Conference - Denver 2009 Ask Away Virtual Library Reference Service collaboration among libraries of British Columbia and the Yukon free, online, chat-based reference service with librarian AskAway librarian finds a potentially useful resource and sends or “pushes” a webpage, which appears in your browser window scheduling and extended coverage requires collaboration & funding - electronic library network
- 6. WCET Conference - Denver 2009 Online Program Development Fund Annually ~ $1 million - $8.25 million to date Credit based online curriculum development Grants contingent on inter-institutional partnerships and/or partnerships with not-for-profits, associations, e-learning companies, … 115 grants, 29 complete certificate, diploma, and degree programs, 326 courses, 70 course modules, 379 learning objects, 1 open textbook, and 27 virtual labs and tools developed across all academic fields of study Now moving into Trades - E-PPRENTICE All development shared as Open Educational Resources via Creative Commons or BC Commons licenses
- 7. WCET Conference - Denver 2009 Elluminate Shared Service pooled requirements for licensing web conferencing system Open Access License - unlimited use, multi-year, not seat based ASP model (reduce internal IT), hosted in Canada, includes pro-d Price savings based on aggregate FTE of participating institutions and actual FTE of each institution BCcampus provides base level of funding (~10K/institution)
- 8. WCET Conference - Denver 2009 Learn Together Collaboratory Multiple faculty development grassroots groups brought together - ETUG, UCIPD, NEDNet, … Provide space for groups to meet and manage activities Profile each institutions teaching and learning centres Federate pro-d events, opportunities and expertise Create shared pool of academic resources - art of teaching commons