National Learning Infrastructure Initiative

Newcomers’ Orientation

January 2002

Current NLII Staff

Carole Barone, Vice-President cbarone@educause.edu

Vicki Suter, Director of NLII Projects vsuter@educause.edu

Tor Cross, READY Project Manager Colleen Carmean, 2002 Fellow Jeremy Haefner, 2002 Fellow John Ittelson, 2001 Fellow Helen Knibb, 2001 Fellow

January 2002

Presentation Outline

NLII Operational Framework Vision Mission Goals Strategies Research Cycle Themes Programs Projects

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NLII Vision

Enable education that is •Active & learner-centered

•Dynamic and lifelong•Collaborative•Cost-effective•High quality•Accessible

January 2002

NLII MissionCreate new collegiatelearning environments

that harness the power ofinformation technology to

improve the quality ofteaching and learning,

contain or reduce risingcosts, and provide

greater accessto higher education

January 2002

Operational Framework

January 2002

NLII Programs

Annual Meeting Focus sessions Online workshops Fellowship Publications Online resources Experimental testbeds READY branches

January 2002

NLII Strategies

Provide a learning and knowledge-creation environment.

Sponsor new partnership initiatives/forge new partnerships.

Provide support for break-through leadership.

Follow a rigorous research and development cycle.

January 2002

Implications for members

Participate in a community of practice that benefits from and enlarges a body of knowledge

Beta-test and pilot new products and services Gain early information about developing

partnerships Have early access (one year) to developing

white papers, books, projects & web resources

January 2002

Membership Benefits

Registration fee waived for the first five participants from your institution or organization to attend the NLII Annual Meeting (normally $750 per person)

Registration fee waived for three participants each from your institution or organization to attend the three NLII Focus Sessions held annually (normally $250 per person)

January 2002

Membership Benefits, cont.

Influence direction of NLII and advance national goals

Learn about emergent technology, practices, and issues related to teaching and learning

Participate in a high-level national forum on transforming teaching and learning and influence national policy

January 2002

Research Cycle

Based on Vision, Mission, and Goals Framework for NLII Program & Projects Three-year thematic life cycle Ten themes at different stages (3 entering,

3 maturing, 3 completed) at any one time Cycle:

Identification Collection Generation Dissemination

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NLII Research Cycle Identification Collection Generation Dissemination

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NLII Research Cycle

Identification Monitor emerging issues Choose key themes Develop conceptual frameworks for themes

January 2002

NLII Research Cycle

Collection Identify patterns & relationships Conduct informal research Collect case studies

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NLII Research Cycle

Generation Identify promising practices Generate principles & define policy issues

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NLII Research Cycle

Dissemination Distribute shared knowledge in multiple modes Mainstream new ideas

January 2002

Teaching & Learning “Space”

Mapping the topic space to gain higher level view (“concept mapping”)

Teaching and Learning Taxonomy Looking at activities occurring in that

space (other associations, organizations) & coordinating with them

Choosing key themes

Continuous learning

Corporatisation of learning(e.g. branding)

Globalisation of learning

New business models(partnerships, consortia,

collaboration)

Brokering (WGU)

E-business/enterprise(e.g. e-Cornell)

Enterprise portals(eg Fathom, Cardean)

Campus based portals

State networks

Corporate universities

Assessment

Assessment of institutional readiness

E-portfolios(student, faculty,

course, institutional)

Transformative assessment

Quality assurance and accreditation

Outcomes, competencies and benchmarking

IPR

Knowledge management

Personalised learning plans

Student Support Services

Value Web

Online communities of practice,

learning and PD

E-learning

E-books

Leadership

Pedagogy/learning

Learner centredness

Object Repositories(Merlot, Pool)

IT planning

IMS/SCORMMetadata standards

LMS and LCMS

Learning objects

Digital repositories (libraries)

Transformation of organisational culture

Faculty engagement and support

Laptops,PDAsiPAQs

Wireless communication

24/7

Ubiquitous computing

SEM/CRM

Teaching and Learning Centres

Outsourcing

Advanced networks

Security and privacy

Institutional Transformation

Recognition and reward

Organising & governing IT

Changing learner characteristics

drivers

culture

strategies

principles

Alignment Scalability

Accountability Capacity

Communication Sustainability

Human resource issues

January 2002

January 2002

Dissemination Projects

Key themes page http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keythemes Re-design of NLII Web site Exploration of new technologies that

provide dynamic environment for developing themes and resources (virtual community/knowledge management)

January 2002

Experimental Testbed Projects Transformative

Assessment Project NLII, TLT Group,

CNI, and UC Focus Session Online workshop Online community

Online Communities Discuss common

problems and issues Share documents,

solutions or best practices

Collaborate on projects Plan for face-to-face

meetings; continue relationships beyond face-to-face events

January 2002

NLII Fellowship Program

2 half-time, one-year fellowships Targets faculty and learning support staff in

higher education Fellows study, analyze, assess and

implement specific aspects of institutional transformation

2001 Fellows: John Ittelson, Helen Knibb 2002 Fellows: Colleen Carmean; Jeremy

Haefner

January 2002

2002 Annual Meeting

“Innovative Practice, Policy & Partnerships: A New Alignment”

January 27 – 29, 2002U.S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, CA

January 2002

Focus Sessions

Working sessions Small (usually around 40 participants) Regionally-based Highly interactive Organized around questions related to a

theme, with a view to advancing the body of knowledge about that theme

Initial exploration, conceptual framework, definition of issues and patterns, identification of promising practices, emergence of principles

January 2002

2001 Focus Sessions

Alignment of Planning March, 2001, Worcester, MA Sponsored by University of Rhode Island,

MIT

Partnering in the Learning Marketspace May, 2001, San Diego, CA Sponsored by Eduprise

January 2002

Alignment in Planning Purpose

To advance the body of thought on how to align

action, including policy, project selection and

assessment with strategic goals.

Participants:

Rhode Island, MIT, Hartford

Provosts, vice-provosts, faculty

January 2002

Work Products

READY branch (under development) Webliography (under development) Presentations at NLII 2002 Annual

Meeting

January 2002

Alignment in Planning Focus Session (March 2001) For more information, plan on attending

the “Alignment in Planning” concurrent session Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:40 – 12:30 Horton E Helen Knibb & John Cavanaugh

January 2002

Partnering in the Learning Marketspace (May 2001) Purpose

To advance the body of thought on the alternatives and issues involved for institutional partnering and for partnering with commercial service providersTo develop and implement highly leveraged strategies for e-learning – the use of Internet technologies in teaching and learning.

Participants: Public, private, and corporate education and state government

January 2002

Work Products

Book (Hill Duin and Baer) Focus Session READY branch “Developing a Successful Partnership

Investment Portfolio” white paper based on focus session and results of year’s follow-up research

Presentations at Annual Meeting

January 2002

Annual Meeting Presentations

Featured session, “Developing a Successful Partnership Investment Portfolio, ” Ann Hill Duin, and Linda Baer Monday, January 28, 2002 10:45 – 11:45 AM, Grand Ballroom A

Companion concurrent session, “A Showcase of Successful Partnership Investment Portfolios” Monday, January 28, 2002 1:00 – 1:50 PM, Grand Ballroom A

January 2002

2002 Focus Sessions Transformative Assessment Systems:

Step One (March 15, 2002 in Denver, Colorado)

Innovative Instructional Design: The Art & the Science (May 31, 2002 in Vancouver, B.C.)

E-Portfolios – Fall, 2002(Location and date tba)

January 2002

Transformative Assessment Systems Transformative assessment systems

are institution-wide assessment strategies that are designed and implemented in an integrated way for all levels (the course, the program, and the institution) for the purpose of systematically transforming teaching and learning institution-wide, according to institutional goals.

January 2002

Developing issues/Fellows research E-Portfolios (John Ittelson) Learning Design Principles (Helen

Knibb)

January 2002

Aligning online design with principles of learning Building bridges between learning

theory and practice Exploring new roles for the faculty-

designer Applying principles of learning to shape

and form learning activity Integrating learning principles in the

design of online environments

January 2002

Work Products

White paper Online resource linking to new models,

effective practices, learning and design theory

Focus session: The design of learning environments, May 31, 2002, Vancouver

January 2002

Featured session

Learner Centered by Practice: using what we know about learning and cognition in the designing for the online environment Monday, 10.45-11.45 a.m. Grand Ballroom

B&C Companion Concurrent: Monday, 3.10-4.00

pm.Grand Ballroom B&C

January 2002

Electronic Portfolios

An area of emerging interest across the Academy

Term needs an adjective Institutional Personal Private or public

Collaborations

January 2002

E-Portfolios Partners

Stanford Learning Lab Carnegie Foundation for the

Advancement of Teaching University of Alaska, Anchorage Department of Labor iSEEK Solutions California State University, Monterey

Bay

January 2002

E-Portfolios Workproducts

Resources database and web site Fall 2002 Focus Session E-PAC working group Related Events

NECC pre-workshop (June, 2002) AAHE presentation (June 2002)

January 2002

Annual Meeting Presentations

Featured Session, “On the Wings of Change: E-Portfolios Take Off” Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:15 – 10:15 AM Grand Ballroom B&C

Companion Concurrent Session Tuesday, 11:40 – 12:30 Grand Ballroom A

January 2002

Annual Meetings

NLII Sustaining Members only Smaller, more accessible venue (300

attendees) Interactive

Presentations & companion discussion sessions Focus is on transformation of teaching and

learning Principles & policies Case studies Effective practices

January 2002

Emerging Issue

Who is this “New Student?” What is the “New Student” Wearing,

and What Does That Have to Do with University Facilities Design and Planning?

You can view the full agenda athttp://www.educause.edu/nlii/meetings/sandiego2002/

January 2002

READY ProjectREADiness inventorY

Resources, effective practices and glossaries in an interactive, Web-based decision support tool.

January 2002

The Tool

Web-based, decision tree An interactive way of accessing information

from White papers Surveys Publications Etc.

Version 2 will be available by the middle of December, 2001.

January 2002

The Content

Two content areas are well developed: Deliver Online Learning Partner in the Learning Marketspace

Others are under initial development: Align Planning Deliver Student Services Engage Faculty Use Transformative Assessment

January 2002

Expected Uses

a conceptual framework for complex decisions (identify the key questions and issues that should be considered)

a context for a process on campus that encourages and supports useful dialog about those key questions and issues;

an interactive medium for dissemination and leveraging of intellectual content developed elsewhere.

January 2002

Possible Institutional Outcomes apply scarce resources strategically address weaknesses and take

advantage of strengths respond to the environment move the institution further along the

transformation topography create a common vocabulary

READY Version 2

A Preview

www.educause.edu/ready

January 2002

Future Directions

Version 2 will be publicly available in mid December, 2001

In 2002, we will concentrate resources on creating more Focus Areas, rather than adding additional functionality to the Tool.