Issues

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Issues OpportunitiesThe Kentucky eLearning
Strategic Framework
SREB Educational Technology CooperativeApril 19,
2004
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Change Happens

• Policy development begins with a question,
  created by a problem.

Sally Johnstone Kentucky Distance Learning
Advisory Meeting January 5, 2004
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Instruction on the Internet
Exponential Growth Possibilities
Virtual College University Consortia A
National Study Epper and Garn (2003)
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Surging Potential

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We are in a battle. The worlds universities
are in crisis, assailed by challenges of access,
cost, and flexibility,
Sir John Daniels, Change, July/August 1997
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Technology Hype Cycle
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• You can either innovate...
• or you die .

Senator John Kerry Chair, Web-based Education
Commission Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan,
14, 2000
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The Growth of Virtual Universities
Virtual College University Consortia A
National Study Epper and Garn (2003)
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(No Transcript)
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Governor. Paul Patton signs House Bill 1, May 31
1997
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Kentuckys Postsecondary Distance Education
Community
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Survey Results
Two-thirds of people seeking postsecondary
education want to take programs online.
KYVU Public Opinion Poll, UK Survey Research
Center, Feb-March 2000
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Desired Degrees
26.6
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22.3
14.7
13.3
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Desired Programs
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Virtual Capability
eCommerce
Course Platforms
Online Tutoring
Teacher Education
Online Catalog
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KYVU Enrollments
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Sizzle, Fizzle or Drizzle?
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KYVU Goals (1999)

• Enhance and expand educational access and
  increase educational attainment across Kentucky.
• Upgrade workforce skills and expand professional
  development through basic and continuing
  education.
• Increase collaboration and foster efficiency and
  effectiveness in delivering courses and programs.
  
• Enhance educational quality.
• Increase global competitiveness of Kentuckys
  educational resources.

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The Five Questions
CPE Goals
KYVU Goals
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KYVU Strategies (2001)

• Increase Awareness of distance education
  opportunities
• Increase Enrollment (particularly for new
  students)
• Increase Curriculum Product (particularly in new
  economy and high demand subjects
• Increase Seamlessness with Kentucky Department of
  Education and Department of Adult Education
• Increase Partnerships that assist with above goals

KCVU Way Ahead Presentation - April 2001
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Alignment of Services
CPE
KYVU
Institutions
Survey of Kentucky Chief Academic Officers May
2003
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Time for Change

• Distance Learning Advisory Committee
• eLearning Strategic Framework
• eLearning Steering Team
• Workgroups
• Policy
• Programs
• Support Services
• Infrastructure

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KY DE Goals (2004)

• Develop the POLICIES AND RELATIONSHIPS which
  fully utilize statewide institutional and agency
  resources.
• Ensure consistent distance education data
  collection, analysis and reporting by producing a
  Kentucky Distance Education Annual Report that
  provides decision making data and analysis for
  DLAC and institutional distance education
  planning.
• Work with statewide information technology
  committees to increase the coordination of
  statewide eLearning and distance education
  infrastructure throughout the Commonwealth today
  and in the future.

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KY DE Goals (2004)

• Encourage and effectively support COLLABORATION
  and COORDINATION of distance education across the
  Commonwealth.
• Expand the Kentucky presence and advocacy in
  regional and national distance education policy
  and regulatory issues.
• Continue the role of the eLearning Steering team
  as the operational forum for addressing distance
  education issues.
• Utilize a Kentucky distance education listserv to
  support and actively sustain awareness,
  understanding and participation in the Kentucky
  distance education community.

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KY DE Goals (2004)

• Support the identification, development and
  delivery of HIGH QUALITY distance education
  programs.
• Conduct a needs assessment to identify academic
  and workforce development distance education
  programs that meet the learning and training
  needs of Kentucky workers, employers,
  communities, and citizens -- when, where, and how
  they need them.
• Support the investigation of highly efficient,
  effective, scalable and economical instructional
  models, such as an online general education core.
• Address the effective communication and marketing
  of distance education programs, and their value,
  to Kentucky education communities through the use
  of existing resources and programs.

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KY DE Goals (2004)

• Ensure that Kentuckys teachers, faculty and
  learners have MEANINGFUL ACCESS AND SUPPORT which
  enables success in learning and teaching across a
  multi-level, multi-course, multi-institution,
  multi-agency, multi-site system of distance
  education.
• Be a catalyst in establishing a network of
  Statewide Student Support Services that will
  identify and pursue statewide acquisition,
  management and maintenance of key support
  services.
• Address issues of accessibility in Kentucky
  distance education.
• Conduct distance education student focus groups.
• Work with the teacher and faculty development
  work groups to identify and address faculty
  training issues.

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Changing Goals
KYVU Goals (1999)
KY DE Goals (2004)
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Changing Strategies
KYVU (1999)
CPE (2004)
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