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]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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