TDEC Report

1. TDEC Report February 18-20, 2013

2. Adventist Learning Community(ALC) • Broad platform including all the departments of the church.

3. Policy IT Processes Practice Needs of the Field Goals Set (ADMIN) Develop Conceptual Framework Ministries OK’ed NAD, Unions, Confs OK’ed ADMIN Build Proposed Model Courses Proposed and Identified for Development Adventist Learning Community Select Design Team OK’ed AU & GU Identify Resources and Needs Design Team Consults with Clients Select LMS/CMS Vendors Construct – LMS & CMS ADMIN Approval Piloting and In-Service Design Portal and Imagination Stations ADMIN Approval Develop Courses/Modules Courses are Taught Report to Constituents NO Courses Refined Block Goal Accomplished Lives Changed YES

4. Educating the World Church Online Creating a cohesive plan for denomination-wide online educational communication and resources

5. Vision: Affordable lifetime learning opportunities that promote Seventh-day Adventist identity within the church and a message of hope and wholeness to the world. Mission: To create synergy for the systemic growth of all stakeholders of the Seventh-day Adventist church.

6. Questions to Answer • Why? • How? • What? • Who? • Where? • When?

7. Why? Why An Adventist Online Educational/Professional Growth Presence? Unified Reliable Official

8. Make Adventist education available for • Academic credit • Non-credit certification programs • Social media/community • Training/continuing education units • Spiritual enrichment • Development program for church professionals, lay members and volunteers

9. Why? Uniquely Distinctly Seventh-day Adventist Strengthen Adventist culture Capture unique Adventist narrative The values, mission and vision of Adventist education on our physical campuses must be mirrored in the digital world.

10. In the Schools • Build a virtual community • Offer affordable/competitive education • Expand capacity—junior academies, advanced placement classes, vocation classes • Provide clear plan for communicating benefits • Leverage best practice across the NAD • Commit to continuous program assessment • Establish multi-modal delivery • DVD • Cohort • Asynchronous/synchronous • Video streaming, etc.

11. What? Content and Demographics NAD Department Training K-12 Courses Courses/Resources Higher Ed Courses/Resources Other Organizational Education/Certifications Lay Training

12. Who? Organization, Personnel and Constituents Identify Organizational Structure Identify Positions/Skills Needed Identify Constituents

13. Audience Market to: • Parents • Churches/pastors • Schools/principals • Donors • NAD officers Deliver to: • Home school students • Public school students K-12 and Higher Education • Church professionals and volunteers • Adventist schools/students • General public Partners • Griggs • Approved distance education providers • NAD departments • Colleges and universities • AVLN

14. Who? Stakeholders Church Leaders Church Ministries Homeschoolers Distance Learners

15. Who? Departments Education Children’s ministries Health Ministries Communication Ministerial Family Ministries Religious Liberty Women’s Ministries Youth Stewardship YOU!

16. Who? Constituents Buy-in from Constituents Critical Targeted Marketing Understanding Needs Must Build Collaboration and Cooperation

17. When? Targeted Goals Multi-Phase Realistic Goals Understanding Priorities

18. Key Words • Quality • Effective • Affordable • Effective • Accessible • Distinctly Adventist

19. Educating the World Church Online Creating a cohesive plan for denomination-wide online educational communication and resources

20. Distance Education • VOTED to request that NADOE make the Distance Education Evaluation Document a high priority. • TDEC will have the draft to the May Advisory Council in May 2013.

21. Distance Education • VOTED: All schools delivering DE program at any level need to have the status application approved by the local conference, local union and by the NAD • Recommended that there be a modified status app for delivery schools offering fewer than three classes

22. VOTED ALL schools that have not been in continuous operation in the 2012-2013 school year come under the new recommendation to the directors listed previously.

23. VOTED: Recommendation to the directors that all DE school sponsored and credited classes/programs must meet existing faith-based standards that include the SDA worldview.

24. New Digital Resources • Learn360 • $2.00/student if ordering prior to Sept. 16 • $3.00/student if ordering AFTER Sept. 16 • Image Quest • Under School Britannica • EBSCO – available within School Britannica

25. Subscription Resources • Ordering available May 1 – September 16. • Orders will be done through a “store front” linked off of the NAD website. • Orders will be paid at time of order through credit card or pay pal.

26. GreenBridge Computing • Partnered project with Microsoft • Mission – • Provide highest quality digital access at fraction of the cost • Cut costs while expanding tech access • Provide both unsurpassed performance and accessability

27. System being piloted by Colin Hill • Offers • BYOD solution to manage devices • 1:1 management • IT administrator management • Peer-to-Peer mentoring david@greenbridgecomputing.com www.greenbridgecomputing.com

28. National Purchasing Partners • https://www.mynpp.com/myNPP • Contract for purchasing—NAD signed up so any SDA entity can also purchase here • Nothing to manage; schools setup their own accounts