WCET Conference - Denver 2009 Autonomy vs. Collaboration How to build collaborative system services for educators. Paul Stacey Director - Communications, Stakeholder & Academic Relations [email_address]

Autonomy vs. Collaboration

How to build collaborative system services for educators.

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

Reduce IT overhead

staff

Infrastructure

operation/maintenance

Government

velvet glove/iron fist or hands off?

Policy/mandate/legislation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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