Center for Allied Health Programs University of Minnesota Rochester – Twin Cities

1. Center for Allied Health ProgramsUniversity of MinnesotaRochester – Twin Cities Charles ChristiansenDirector

2. Mission To develop leading signature academic programs in partnership with others that employ innovative, effective and sustainable educational strategies to meet Minnesota’s allied health workforce needs into the 21st Century.

3. Our Partners will include: • Employers in the healthcare industry • Health systems (public and private) • Government • Educational Institutions • The Mayo School of Health Sciences • Other MN Colleges and Universities • Regional and global others?

4. Minnesota’s Health Workforce Needs • Minnesota is faced with growing shortages of key healthcare workers in the years ahead. • Our current approaches toward health education are obsolete and unsustainable.

5. Current and future programs: • Occupational therapy • Medical Technology (Clinical Laboratory Science) • Radiation Therapy • Respiratory Care (Therapy) • Others TBD

6. Short Term Strategy Occupational Therapy Medical Technology Resp/Radiation/Other Twin Cities Twin Cities Rochester Performance Sites Rochester Rochester Twin Cities Other Other Others 2007-9 2007-9 2008-2010 We expect Radiation Therapy and Respiratory Care to move to the center in 2007.

7. Articulation Agreement University Program College/Univ Program Shared Curricula University Program University Program Joint Degree University Program UniversityProgram Mid-Range Strategies

8. Current Progress • Appointed new leadership in MT/CLS • Completed proposal to migrate faculty and endowment to Center from Medical School for consideration at next Regents Meeting • Hired new Student Services Director • Formulated Intellectual Property Agreement for faculty working in TEL materials • Appointing Center Advisory Council

9. Current Progress (cont) • Initiated searches to hire support staff and faculty for Rochester • Reviewing (with our partners) existing BAS degree programs and proposal to create designated professional bachelors degree designations for disciplines in the center • Developed Interim 7.12 statement for new faculty hires. Final statement will better align desired activities with promotion and tenure

10. A key feature of the center: Technology Enhanced Learning The use of innovations in technology that increase access for learners, enhance learning quality, and increase learning productivity.

11. Learners Are Changing Millennials are on campus with their technologies and expectations—learner-centered, flexible, interactive, individualized, and ubiquitous learning services.

12. Key Technology Trends “Time magazine named “You” as its person of the year because community and collaboration, made possible by the Internet, are happening on a scale like never before. YouTube, eBay, MySpace, Digg, Wikipedia, the iPod and other personalization phenomena are examples of how users are participating in and taking control of technologies and content from those who create them. We believe that this trend will only accelerate.” From the Star Tribune: StarTribune.com, Posted on Tue, Dec. 26, 2006, “10 Tech Trends of 2007,” Dean Takahashi, Mercury News

13. The University of the Future: Rethinking Technology “The way we organize schools and provide instruction is essentially the same as it was when our Founding Fathers went to school…We still educate our students based on an agricultural timetable, in an industrial setting, yet tell students they live in the digital age.” -Roderick Paige Former U.S. Secretary of Education

14. Maximize eLearning Potential • Bring technologies together to meet student and teacher needs. • Respect learning and teaching differences and provide suites of tools. • Apply best practices in technology choices and uses as they evolve. • Be easy, playful, useful, and flexible.

15. Innovative learning platforms • State-of-the-art • Learner-centered • Competency-driven • Technology-enhanced • Distributed and accessible • Collaboratively developed • Hybrid

16. Core Principles • The Learner is the Center • Leadership Commitment: Design, planning, implementation and assessment • Maximizing UMN world-class technologies • Learning: The right time, the right way, the right stuff, and the right outcomes • Collaboration across boundaries

17. Hybrid Platforms • We think of a platform as a launching pad for learning. • We use the term “hybrid” because it combines educational tools with the learners preferences. • Our goal is to combine the right tools, in the right hands, with the right content, at the right time to get the optimum success and learner outcomes.

18. Example: Portal Development • Manage information abundance: • Libraries • Search Appliances, Tagging, and Tuning • Just in Time and Just for You • Customize information • Allow users to personalize information • Be transportable • Support teaching and learning • Create secure spaces • Watch, listen, learn and refine…continually

22. Changing Education

24. Technology for Life

25. Concurrent Strategies • Intellectual property agreements for faculty developing educational innovations • Co-Development and co-licensing of TEL Curricular Content • Possible syndication beyond partnerships • Creation of rational systems for statewide clinical placement of students • Development of an e-institute for faculty continuing education in TEL

26. Questions? christi@umn.edu 507-280-2826 (Rochester) 612-625-0108 (Twin Cities)