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  • Cole Camplese 8:33 am on March 14, 2012 Permalink |
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    A Vision for Learning at Penn State: 2012-2017 

    Over the next five years, Penn State will draw on collaborations with its extensive network of world-renowned faculty and staff to anticipate and respond to new market opportunities, providing high quality, rigorous educational experiences that will exceed learners’ expectations in all modes of delivery. As we continue to grow, we will move the field of distance learning from “as good as” to a realization of the incredible affordances online learning brings to traditional residential based higher education, adding a level of quality, flexibility, and engagement that has heretofore not been reached.

    We will work to move more of our learning experiences into modes that are available online, face to face, and in hybrid models. Through our collective work, we will strive to provide the tools, approaches, and programs to not just support the delivery of learning content, but to lead faculty towards new forms of teaching practice. We believe at the center of all learning environments are specific needs that start with faculty development. To this end, learning design staff will work to become more focused on the utilization of technology that is aligned with strong pedagogical strategies.

    To reach our goals, we will

    • Continue to build new learning environments that showcase the research strengths of the University, from the undergraduate to the doctoral level, while strategically scaling all of our offerings and resources.
    • Build stronger online communities that take advantage of the increasing affordances of the Internet to better reproduce the engagement that takes place in various social spaces. These support structures will become increasingly important to better connect our residential and online students with each other and with resources that support and enrich their learning.
    • Shift the focus from “content development” to “creating learning experiences” by personalizing the learning experiences of our students to create learning environments that are more flexible and “smart,” enabling us to analyze a student’s progress through courses and programs with just in time data that respond to their learning needs.
    • Provide truly seamless access to both resident and online education for all students that is driven by student needs without putting unnecessary technical or administrative barriers in their path, including increased access to online courses for residential students, expanded online University learning and extracurricular resources to continue to break down the barriers and distinctions between online and face-to-face education, improved financial aid resources for programs that are “non-standard” by design, and proactive accessibility strategies for students with disabilities.
    • Continue the movement away from a single one-size-fits-all online learning system (LMS) to a collection of best-in-class web-based tools that can be drawn together to create unique learning spaces that more effectively meet the expectations of our faculty and students.

    Ann Taylor & Cole Camplese February 2012, Adapted from A Vision for Online Learning, Ann Taylor

     
    • Bart Pursel 1:41 pm on April 18, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I like it. I think either adding a bullet, or re-phrasing bullet 3, to focus on learning analytics might add some more data-driven focus to supporting students. We have a few LA projects underway at UP right now (ERP system, DUS advising data-driven project, the blog data analysis with grade correlations, etc), and I have a feeling we’ll see a lot more LA-driven projects to help support student learning and success in all course formats and settings. I can certainly craft a short paragraph if you’d like.

    • wlm103 8:44 am on April 18, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Overall, this looks great. Although you mention it in bullet point 3, perhaps adding something about assisting faculty re-think or develop new ways of assessing students’ performance that is congruent with these changes may be helpful.

  • Cole Camplese 11:29 am on March 8, 2012 Permalink |
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    Hi all the next eEducation Council meeting is… 

    Hi all … the next eEducation Council meeting is scheduled for March 14, 2012 from 10:30-12 in 118 Wagner. I am looking forward to seeing everyone. I have started the agenda below and will look to round it out with your suggestions in the coming days. You can simply leave a comment on this post for items you are interested in leading discussions about. For our meeting, use the tag “March 2012” and if you create a new post, use the categories for 2012 and March. Thanks!

    Proposed Agenda:

    • Draft Review: Vision for Learning at Penn State: Ann Taylor
    • Yammer Update: Work & Teaching Implications: Cole Camplese & Scott McDonald
    • Occupy Learning Project from CI 598: Cole Camplese & Scott McDonald
    • Instructional Content Management Task Force Update: Keith Bailey
    • Update on LMS search: Terry O’Heron
     
    • Bart Pursel 11:32 am on March 14, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      All of these write-ups, interviews, etc that are taking place as part of the “Occupy” idea would make amazing data points to drive a broader, data-driven assessment of learning spaces across the university. I’m thinking all this qualitative data would lead to the emergence of 5-7 solid variables that could be worked into a few survey questions that then go out on a faculty/student survey down the road.

      Lots of interesting ways to leverage all this data that could really impact how the university, as a whole, starts to assess these spaces on a big scale.

    • Stevie Rocco 11:20 am on March 14, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Yammer Question: I find it a morass because there are so many groups and some of them are duplicates. How does one know what to join or how to find the information?

    • Allan Gyorke 10:55 am on March 14, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Yammer: 3 year license, connected to Penn State authentication and understand attributes, Heather Huntsinger (Training Services) is the project manager. They have a footprint in 80% of Fortune 500 companies.

    • Wayne 10:55 am on March 14, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Don’t know where to this should go, but the audio is out over polycom. It was open working for a few minutes, but now silent.

    • Cole Camplese 1:22 pm on March 8, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Sure is. Sorry about that!

    • Amy Garbrick 1:18 pm on March 8, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      The meeting is on March 14, not March 12, right?

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