Collaboration vs. Autonomy

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Autonomy vs. Collaboration

How to build collaborative system services for educators.

Paul StaceyDirector - Communications, Stakeholder & Academic [email protected]



Collaboration

Autonomy

Brand Independence“Ownership” of

students & facultySelf-sufficiencyI

ncentives/Motivators $

additional

Make it possible to dowhat can’t do on own

More studentsExpanded servicesExpanded offeringsFill capacitysavings

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/legislationSystem view



BCcampus Four Areas of Collaboration:

1. Student Services & Data Exchangea)Post-Secondary Application for Admissions Service

b)Online Course & Program Finder

c)AskAway Virtual Library Reference Service

d)BC Learning Gateway

2. Curriculum Development & Deliverya)Online Program Development Fund

b)E-PPRENTICE Flexible Learning Funding

c)Collaborative Multi-institutional Programs

d)Applied Research Grants

= collaborations profiled in this presentation



BCcampus Four Areas of Collaboration:

3. Information Communications Technology Shared Servicesa)Moodle

b)Desire2Learn

c)Elluminate

d)Adobe Connect

4. Communities & Academic Growtha)Educational Technology Users Group (etug.ca)

b)SCoPE webinars (scope.bccampus.ca)

c)Learn Together Collaboratory (ltcollaboratory.org)

•Mental Health, Campus Climate Network, and other online communities



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



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



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)



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

Collaboration vs. Autonomy

Education

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areas of collaboration

online communities

chatbased reference

learning centres

learning objects

elearning companies

collaborative system