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Interview with Ellen Wagner
By Holly Bielak, Kim Cavallo, Yaa Donyina, Vicki Greene and Vernon Simpson
DEPM 604
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Rationale for Choice of Distance Education Leader
• Ellen Wagner is Chief Research & Strategy Officer for the Predictive Analytics Reporting (PAR) Framework
• Executive Director of the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) from 2009 to 2013
• Formerly Senior Director of Worldwide eLearning Solutions, Adobe Systems, Inc.
• prior career as university professor at University of Northern Colorado
• Project Director at the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunication, Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education
• PhD in Educational Psychology from University of Colorado Boulder
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What do you think are the most important qualities in a leader?
• Being approachable, trustworthy, transparent, engaging people in ideas
• Its situational, step up and not be afraid of what is going on
• Willingness to step up and get stuff done
• Leaders need a willingness to get things going
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Women lead differently (Hardy Video)
• Women are non-hierarchical leaders
• There is not a lot of female role models
• The quality of the experience has to be worthwhile
• Guide yourself to make it work
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In your opinion, how is being a leader in a distance education institution different from
other organizations?
• She does not know and asked the group
• She has been working in software industry for 8 years
• She needed to prove there is a market for e-learning
• Vernon said D.E. institutions use a different skill set
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How would you describe your leadership style?
• Paint a picture of the future and get people to see themselves in it
• Socializing the new idea
• You have to get people to imagine how to do things differently
• Evangelism-what is in it for you
• When distance education is everywhere we have to think differently
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In your opinion, can someone be an effective leader without being an effective
manager? Why or Why not?• Yes, some people are great leaders without management
skills
• Her business partner developed Dreamweaver
• She is the leader & her business partner is the manager
• People need to trust and believe in you
• Leaders need to inspire confidence
• Taking care of the business of what you are doing
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using virtual teams
in an organization?• She has been using virtual teams since 1992
• Her company is based in United States with teams in India, Pakistan & Australia
• Virtual teams are very helpful because work is shared digitally
• Challenges include the need to be flexible due to various time zones
• You have to be comfortable with technology and self-directed working
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What advice would you give to a student or young professional who wants to enter the
distance education field?
• Think about what you would like to accomplish to leverage distance education
• Think about the impact which you would like to have
• Think about your strengths & how you could bring it to the table
• Be open to learning new things
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