Round the Clock Support Through Collaboration

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Round the Clock Support Through Collaboration!

• Ed Klonoski,
• Executive Director
• Diane J. Goldsmith,
• Dean of Planning, Research, Assessment
• Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium
• WCET Conference, November 2003

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Collaboration in CT
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Formation of CTDLC--1998

• WWW.CTDLC.ORG
• Members 39 Higher Ed 10 Affiliates

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Why Build Collaborations

• Important for students, faculty, staff
• Cost Savings
• Net Gain that outweighs pain of collaborating
• Capacity Building for CTDLC

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History

• Shared Course Management Systems
• Online Evaluations
• Help Desk and Hosting
• Training
• DOE Financial Aid Demonstration Project
• Davis Education Foundation Grant
• FIPSE Grant
• WebCT Vista

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Results

• Build trust
• Seen as a partner not competition
• Participants learned to think and work outside
  their institutional boundaries
• The next idea/partnership gets easier

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CTDLC-Davis Grant

• Private 4-year institutions
• Sacred Heart University
• Teikyo Post University
• Public 4-year institutions
• Charter Oak State College
• The Connecticut State University System
• Public 2-year institutions
• Manchester Community College
• Naugatuck Valley Community College
• Northwestern Community College
• Three Rivers Community College

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Online Tutoring
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Online Tutoring Growth
Institutions Fall 01 10 Spring 0317
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Extending Collaboration through a FIPSE Grant
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CTDLC-FIPSE Project
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FIPSE Projects

• Build a collaborative ePortfolio platform for the
  11 partners
• Branded
• Flexible
• Assessment, Advising, Career Counseling
• Build a Technology-Assessment Tool
• Agree on a set of technology skills required for
  incoming students

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ePortfolio Private Work Invitation to view
Guest Page

• Workspace
• Biography
• Goals
• My Portfolios
• Advising
• Careers
• Institutional Information

• My Guest Page
• Biographical Info
• Name
• Education
• Honors
• Picture
• My History Portfolio
• My Year in Spain Portfolio
• My Resume

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Outcomes Portfolios

• Portfolios are a collection of work that a
  student has put together to meet a requirement or
  personal need.
• Creating a portfolio is a meta-cognitive
  activity.
• select the appropriate examples of their work.
• reflect on how that work contributes to the
  portfolios and their goals.

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Outcomes My Portfolios
Individual Workwriting, visual, audio with
reflection
On Guest Page
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Lobster Portfolio

• Portfolio Getting Every Morsel The Art of
  Lobster Eating
• Introduction
• This Portfolio documents years of work in
  perfecting lobster eating.
• Reflection
• I have grown to appreciate the wonders of
  lobsters.
• Associated Work
• The Trick to Eating Lobsters (Word)
• Introduction Little known tricks of lobster
  eating.
• Reflection I learned how difficult it was to
  describe how to eat a lobster in words.

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Lobster Portfolio (cont)

• The Economics of Lobster Eating (Excel)
• Introduction A large Excel Worksheet which
  explores a variety of budgets and global
  economies which can affect lobster eating.
• Reflection I learned how the current
  administration doesn't provide enough support for
  higher education nor for lobster fishing and
  consumption.
• A exemplar of a lobster A photo display (jpeg)
• Reflection
• My photo skills arent as good as my writing
  skills

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Portfolio Getting Every Morsel The Art of
Lobster Eating

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Lessons Learned from Collaboration

• Put students first
• Collaboration is time consuming
• It requires upfront planning
• The process makes the end product stronger and
  creates ownership
• Project Directors are key

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More Lessons

• Who else comes to the table matters
• Online services are for everyone (not
  just distance students)
• Incentives help
• Coordination is essential and the coordinating
  skills are important
• Outside evaluation is helpful

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The Future

• Current budgetary issues in Higher Ed are
  demanding collaboration
• Need to continue to lessen costs of services and
  instruction while maintaining or increasing
  quality and availability
• Outsourcing of services

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QA
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Thank You

• Ed Klonoski, CTDCL
• eklonoski_at_ctdlc.org
• Diane J. Goldsmith, CTDLCdgoldsmith_at_ctdlc.org
• More information about the projectshttp//www.ct
  dlc.org/Evaluation/grants-FIPSE.html