Learning Platform & Digital Campus Strategies: Building the Future on a Firm Foundation

1. Learning Platform & Digital Campus Strategies: Building the Future on a Firm Foundation Billie Wahlstrom Vice Provost University of Minnesota

2. Beyond Partnerships: Building Alliances Future Digital Commons Digital Campus Learning Platform Infrastructure: Integration, Alignment, Leveraging

3. OIT 2.0 • Alignment: Provost and Senior Vice Presidents in support of the academic mission • Approach: Big picture & one problem area at a time, e.g., teams working on academic uses of video • Agreement: the good of the organization as a whole

4. Learning 2.0 • Prepare for “Passion-based Learning” • Move from supply-push models to demand-pull models. • Be mobile. • Understand the “Long Tail” budgeting model. • Partner with vendors, industry, other higher education institutions.

5. Learning Platform Strategic Positioning Goals Excellent Faculty Excellent Students Innovative Organization Statewide Needs Changing Educational Paradigm in Health Sciences Platform??—think launching pad. Platform launched June 2007

6. What Is the Learning Platform?

9. Supporting the Academic Side of the House The LP is a scaffold supporting all the tools students use to learn, faculty use to teach, and the U of M uses to administer all academic programs. Customized by academic units.

10. UM Enterprise Systems  e-portfolio  WebCT/Vista  Moodle  Adobe/Connect  Pachyderm  Blogs & Wikis  Podcasting  Email, Chat, & IM  Calendar  myLibrary  NetFiles  Central Storage  PDA Tools  Search Engines Personal  Student Response WebSpace Systems--clickers myU portal AHC Enterprise Systems  Clinical Rotations Assignment Software System  Educational Electronic Medical Record Software  CoursEval Software  Learning Objects Repository  Online admissions software  Learning management system  Other . . . The Learning Platform

11. Portal “Views” • 175,000+ users • 20 distinct “views”—Coordinate campuses, first-year students, transfers, graduate & professional, Academic Health Center, Extension… • 100+ content providers • Tabs

12. Provide What’s Useful to “Me”:Using Affinity Strings degree campus unit tc.grad.gs.anth.phd program role

14. Digital Campus • Minnesota from Everywhere • Common searchable catalogs • Credit and non-credit solutions • Seamless transfer and common templates • Sound business plans and marketing & centralized sales

15. Meeting the Land-Grant Mission–Online, On campus, and On-site The Digital Campus • “Endless” Catalogs • Deep Community Roots • Digital Pipelines • Learning Platform

16. Content: “Endless” Catalog • Research • Clinical & Translational Science • Academic Disciplines • Centers: Allied Health, Institution on the Environment • Interprofessional Education • Continuing Education for Professionals • Degree Completion & PSEO, CIS, AP

19. Deep Roots in the Community • Research and Outreach Centers • Coordinate Campuses • Practice & Performance Sites • Country Extension Offices • AHECs (Area Health Education Centers) • Hospitals & Health Networks

20. Interactions

21. Digital Pipelines iTunes U YouTube Research Channel Internet 2 Learning Platform Big 10 Network RSS feeds

22. The U of M & iTunes U

23. Discussions

24. Readings & Case Studies

25. Big Rocks in the Path • Infrastructure • Finding Faculty Champions • Faculty Development & Support • Setting High Standards • Developing Marketing Plans

26. Learning Management System (LMS) Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Non-Credit Registration System Correcting Infrastructure Deficits

27. Investing in Faculty Development & Support Faculty Member/ Content Expert Course Coordinator Instructional Designer The Learner Graphic Artist Videographer Web Developer

28. Finding Faculty Champions

29. Setting High Standards

30. Developing Strategic Marketing • Protecting intellectual property • Developing new syndication models • Branding & marketing • Expanding UMart

31. Learning Markets: Understanding the “Long Tail” • E-Commerce isn’t physical commerce • The disappearance of “best sellers” and the emergence “fulfillment centers” • The unlimited “catalog” of $.99 sounds I want to hear

32. Minnesota’s Digital Commons • Common point of entry—soft launch 9/08 • Common tools—SPEEDE, CAS, DARS • Partnerships with public education K-20 • Co-hosted computing, technology help, and career pathways

34. Assessment

35. Opportunity Knocks: WIA WIA (Workforce Investment Act) An Act (1998) “To consolidate, coordinate, and improve employment, training, literacy, and vocational rehabilitation programs in the United States, and for other purposes. “

36. WIA “The federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA), which superseded the Job Training Partnership Act, offers a comprehensive range of workforce development activities through statewide and local organizations. Available workforce development activities provided in local communities can benefit job seekers, laid off workers, youth, incumbent workers, new entrants to the workforce, veterans, persons with disabilities, and employers. “

37. WIA Is a Federal Program

38. The Health Sciences The list below [from acupuncture to virology] focuses on planning, managing, and providing diagnostic, therapeutic, informational and environmental and support services in health care, including biotechnology research and development. –

39. Looking for Alliances

40. Works Cited • 2006-2016 Map of Future Forces Affecting Education, prepared for KnowledgeWorks Foundation by the Institute for the Future. • “Active Learning and Technology: Designing for Faculty, Students, and Institutions.” Anne Moore, Shelli Fowler, and C. Edward Watson, Educause Review, September/October 2007, pp. 43-76. • ECAR studies for 2004 and 2005. EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research <http://www.educause.edu/AboutECAR/94> • “Faculty 2.0.” Joel Hartman, Charles Dziuban, and James Brophy-Ellison.” Educause Review, September/October 2007. pp. 62-76. • “Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0,” John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler, Educause Review, January/February 2008, pp. 17-32. • “Technology in Support of Learning on the Twin Cities Campus,” Robert B. Kvavik. Prepared for the Academic Health Center. • “Harder Than It Looks,” Diana G. Oblinger, connect.educause.edu/Library/erm08112