NLII: Empowering Education with Technology

1. National Learning Infrastructure Initiative Newcomers’ Orientation

2. 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

3. Presentation Outline • NLII Operational Framework • Vision • Mission • Goals • Strategies • Research Cycle • Themes • Programs • Projects

4. NLII Vision • Enable education that is • Active & learner-centered • Dynamic and lifelong • Collaborative • Cost-effective • High quality • Accessible

5. Create new collegiatelearning environmentsthat harness the power ofinformation technology toimprove the quality ofteaching and learning,contain or reduce risingcosts, and providegreater accessto higher education NLII Mission

6. Operational Framework

7. NLII Programs • Annual Meeting • Focus sessions • Online workshops • Fellowship • Publications • Online resources • Experimental testbeds • READY branches

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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)

11. 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

12. 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

13. NLII Research Cycle • Identification • Collection • Generation • Dissemination

14. NLII Research Cycle Identification • Monitor emerging issues • Choose key themes • Develop conceptual frameworks for themes

15. NLII Research Cycle Collection • Identify patterns & relationships • Conduct informal research • Collect case studies

16. NLII Research Cycle Generation • Identify promising practices • Generate principles & define policy issues

17. NLII Research Cycle Dissemination • Distribute shared knowledge in multiple modes • Mainstream new ideas

18. 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

19. Institutional Transformation Leadership Continuous learning Assessment of institutional readiness drivers Alignment Scalability culture Transformation of organisational culture Corporatisation of learning (e.g. branding) E-portfolios (student, faculty, course, institutional) Accountability Capacity strategies IT planning Communication Sustainability Globalisation of learning Transformative assessment principles Organising & governing IT New business models (partnerships, consortia, collaboration) Assessment Human resource issues Knowledge management Learning objects IMS/SCORM Metadata standards E-business/enterprise (e.g. e-Cornell) Quality assurance and accreditation Personalised learning plans Object Repositories (Merlot, Pool) Brokering (WGU) Outcomes, competencies and benchmarking Learner centredness LMS and LCMS Advanced networks Corporate universities Online communities of practice, learning and PD Changing learner characteristics Ubiquitous computing Enterprise portals (eg Fathom, Cardean) Teaching and Learning Centres Pedagogy/learning Student Support Services Outsourcing 24/7 State networks Faculty engagement and support E-learning Wireless communication SEM/CRM Value Web Recognition and reward Laptops, PDAs iPAQs Digital repositories (libraries) Campus based portals Security and privacy IPR E-books

21. 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)

22. 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 Experimental Testbed Projects

23. 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

24. 2002 Annual Meeting • “Innovative Practice, Policy & Partnerships: A New Alignment” • January 27 – 29, 2002U.S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, CA

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. Work Products • READY branch (under development) • Webliography (under development) • Presentations at NLII 2002 Annual Meeting

29. 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

30. 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 providers To 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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)

34. 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.

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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. An area of emerging interest across the Academy Term needs an adjective Institutional Personal Private or public Collaborations Electronic Portfolios

40. 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

41. 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)

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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 at http://www.educause.edu/nlii/meetings/sandiego2002/

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

46. 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.

47. 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

48. 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.

49. 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

50. READY Version 2 A Preview www.educause.edu/ready