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Future Collaborative Trends in Online Education. Fred Saba, Ph. D. ADEC Past President Professor Emeritus San Diego State University fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu. Why Collaborate?. An organization is more productive than the sum of its individual members Brain storming
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Future Collaborative Trends in Online Education Fred Saba, Ph. D. ADEC Past President Professor Emeritus San Diego State University fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu
Why Collaborate? • An organization is more productive than the sum of its individual members • Brain storming • Establishing new and more productive processes and procedures • Managing extant and emerging knowledge • Making tacit knowledge explicit • Learning • Establishing organizational lineage and successorship Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu
Collaboration • Myth and reality in higher education • Organizational impediments • Retention, Tenure, Promotion (How faculty are rewarded) • Grants, Research and Publications 50% • Teaching 40% • Service 10% • Research & development • Complexity requires collaboration • Publications • First name is rewarded Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu
Distance Education Organizations • State and none-profits • Private for profits • Proprietary none-profits Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu
Proprietary None-Profit • Embryonic organization • Well funded • Tech savvy leader • Following the instructional design model • Highly motivated and dedicated staff • Graduate program Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu
Technology Applications • Highly distributed organization • Software as a Service (SaaS) • Software provider licenses an application to customers • On demand use • Provider usually hosts the application • Applications are usually web-enabled Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu
Applications Selected • Desire2Learn (Learning management system) • Adobe Connect (web conferencing) • TopSchool (students information management system) • NexPrise (document and workflow management system) Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu