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Collaboration versus Competition: Trends in Online Learning for Workforce Development

Collaboration versus Competition: Trends in Online Learning for Workforce Development. From Industrial to Information Society: A Comparison. 1892 Industrial Revolution Information Highway: RFD Immigration Urbanization Industrial and Agricultural Mass Education New Institutions

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Collaboration versus Competition: Trends in Online Learning for Workforce Development

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  1. Collaboration versus Competition:Trends in Online Learning for Workforce Development

  2. From Industrial to Information Society: A Comparison 1892 • Industrial Revolution • Information Highway: RFD • Immigration • Urbanization • Industrial and Agricultural • Mass Education • New Institutions • Land Grant Colleges • Normal Schools • Open Universities 2010 • Information Revolution • Information Highway: WWW • Globalization • Networked Society • Professional Education • Communities of Interest • New Institutions • Virtual Networks • For-Profit Companies

  3. Drivers of Change • Social demand for education in a Knowledge Society is changing. • What New Jobs Require • Re-educating the Current Workforce • Ensuring Equitable Access

  4. Drivers of Change • The Changing Environment of Work • Virtual Teams • Collaboration versus Competition • Continuous Bottom-Up Innovation

  5. Drivers of Change • Changing Role of Knowledge • Information versus Knowledge • Research as Critical Skill • New Pedagogy

  6. A New Workforce Education Mandate • Creating Community in a New Working and Social Environment • Educating for Change • Developing New Critical Workplace Skills • Inquiry • Information Validation • Knowledge Creation • Problem Solving • Collaboration through Virtual Teams

  7. Re-perceiving Community • Communities as “Local” • The Problem of Globalization • Defining New Communities • Civic • Civil/Ethical • Social • Professional • Educational • Online Both a Stimulus and a Solution

  8. Redefining Communities within Higher Education • Institution/Community • Faculty • Student/Institution • Institution/Institution

  9. New Learning Community • How We Learn Should Reflect How We Live. • Knowledge Society Requirements • Understanding Information • Working in Teams to Create Solutions to Problems • The e-learning Pedagogy • Resource-Centered • Inquiry-Based Knowledge Creation • Collaborative Problem-Solving • Active Learning

  10. Implications for Corporate Education • Geography is no longer a barrier to educating a distributed workforce. • All companies have access to national/international providers. • Learning can be via contract and/or open enrollment. • Tailoring still an option. • Multi-institutional partnerships an option.

  11. Implications for Higher Education • Mainstreaming Technology • Mainstreaming the Adult Student • Geography No Longer Defines Resources • Blurring Distinctions • Teaching and Research • On-Campus and Off-Campus

  12. Evidence of Convergence • 44% of institutions offering F-2-F Master’s degree programs also offer Master’s programs online. • 65% of higher education institutions use primarily core faculty to teach their online courses. • 3.48 students take at least one online course. • Impact greatest at community colleges and public universities. • 59% of academic officers see online as “critical to the long-term strategy” of their institutions. --Online Nation, 2007

  13. A New Era of Collaboration . . . . . . To Share Courses . . . To Share Students . . . To Serve a Shared Client . . . To Share Materials

  14. Collaboration to Share Courses • Committee on Institutional Communications “CourseShare” • 28 Courses Offered This Year • Languages • Folklore and Ethnomusicology • Political Methodologies • Radiation Oncology Physics • Social Network Analysis

  15. Collaboration to Share Students • The Great Plains IDEA: Inter-Institutional Distance Education Alliance • Goal: Institutions Share Development of Online Graduate Degrees • Process: • No one institution could offer the degree alone • Each brings specific courses to the degree • Students matriculate at institution of their choice and take courses from all institutions in the program • Special arrangements: • Shared curriculum oversight • Common tuition • Shared access to support resources

  16. Collaboration to Serve a Shared Client • Master’s Degree in Project Management • Offered Online with Industry-Sponsored Residencies. • Institutions Share Curriculum and Content: • Europe: University of Manchester • North America: Pennsylvania State University • Companies • Rolls-Royce • AMEC

  17. Collaboration to Share Materials • The Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement

  18. Cape Town Declaration • …we call on educators, authors and institutions to release their resources openly. These open educational resources should be licensed to facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing by anyone, ideally imposing no legal constraints other than a requirement by the creator for appropriate attribution or the sharing of derivative works. Resources should be published in formats that facilitate both use and editing, and that accommodate a diversity of technical platforms. Whenever possible, they should also be available in formats that are accessible to people with disabilities and people who do not yet have access to the Internet.”

  19. Examples of Industry-Institution Collaborations • NACTEL • EPCE

  20. NACTEL: National Coalition for Education and Learning • Industry-wide Partnership Among • Pace University • Council for Adult and Experiential Learning • Telecommunications Corporations • Unions • Associate Degrees • Video Technology • Wireless Networking • Telecommunications • Emerging Telecommunications Technologies

  21. EPCE: Energy Providers Coalition for Education • Collaboration Among: • Energy Companies • Colleges and Universities • Professional/Industry Associations • Contractors • Labor Organizations • Associate and Baccalaureate Degrees and Certificates • Electric Power • Nuclear Power • Natural Gas • Electrical Engineering

  22. Some Guiding Principles for Collaboration • Collaboration versus Customer/Supplier Relationships • Colleagues versus Competitors • Multiple Academic Partnerships • Multiple Employer Partnerships within a Sector • Shared Quality Control • Formalized, but Open Oversight Structure

  23. Opportunities • New Academic Community • OERs • Sharing of Academic Knowledge/Expertise • New Linkages Among Research, Teaching, and Service • Merger of Adult Education into the Higher Education Mainstream

  24. Challenges • Academic versus Employer Standards • Institutional Acceptance versus Distinctive Quality • Theory versus Practice • Global Partnerships versus Cultural Imperialism

  25. Discussion Gary E. Miller gem7@psu.edu

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