IEEE Continuing Professional Education Committee

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IEEE Continuing Professional Education Committee
Roger W. Sudbury, Chair
24 May 2006 Minneapolis EAB Meeting
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IEEE Continuing Professional Education
Committee2006

• Roger W. Sudbury, Chair
• Donald Dunn
• Helene Fung
• Jerry Gibbon
• Phil LaPlante
• Friedolf Smits
• James Tien

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Combined CPEC, SEOC and SOOC Meeting

• 12 13 May 2006
• Newark, NJ
• Provided an opportunity for a face to face
  working Committee Meeting
• Provided the Committee and other attendees an
  overview of EAB activity
• Developed Committee Action Plan

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EAB Manifesto

• Provides a comprehensive plan for all IEEE
  Education activities
• Challenges for the CPEC are addressed
• This report addresses these challenges
• Educational Partners Program
• IEEE Certification Role
• Standards Education Program
• IEEE Education Web Portal
• Expert Now IEEE

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Educational Partners Program

• IEEE Partners Program Status
• Significant increase in number of partners
• Increase in web site traffic
• Comprehensive Plan for Program Needed
• Content and operation review
• Markets and Marketing
• Objectives, targets and timetables
• With assistance of SOOC and SEOC
• Need for Improved Descriptive Name for Program
• Committee Lead Phil LaPlante

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Educational Partners Program2006-07 Action Plan

• IEEE Partners Program Comprehensive Plan
• Data required on use and members experience
• Can use yearly financial return data
• Simple response questionnaire to users
• Periodic Review of Partners
• Marketing Survey
• Request Staff develop Strawman Table of
  Contents
• Need for new descriptive name
• IEEE Recommended Courses?
• Web Site Improvement
• Use of Icons for College Credit Courses
• Accredited Academic and Private Easily
  Identified
• Search Engine for topic
• Ask Partner to report IEEE affiliation of staff
• Informational not a prerequisite

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IEEE Certification Role

• Certification and Competence Demonstration
• Catalog existing IEEE Programs
• Including Educational Partners Program
• Take Lead in preparing comprehensive report on
  IEEE
• role in certification
• Certification Plan
• Steps Required
• Investment Needed
• Committee Lead Donald Dunn

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IEEE Certification Role2006-07 Action Plan

• Contact with Staff Computer Society and
  Communication Society to document Scope of
  current IEEE Activity
• External data collection from existing
  certification organizations (Software Engineering
  Institute, Project Management Institute)
• Review and make recommendation on proposed Market
  Study(Strategic Research and Planning) June OU
  Series
• Determine appropriateness and investment
• Financial
• Volunteer Resources

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Standards Education Program

• Plan Workshop for Educational Standards
• Pilot offering in cooperation with Society
• and Standards Association
• Target late 2006 or early 2007
• Plan a self sustaining standards education
  program
• Submit initiatives proposal for 2007 if
  appropriate
• Support creation of a joint EAB/ Standards
  Education Committee
• Committee Lead Jerry Gibson

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Standards Education Program2006-07 Action Plan

• Standards Workshop for Practitioners
• IEEE Standards and the 802 Family of Standards
• 1718 March 2007
• Johns Hopkins University
• Baltimore, MD
• Sections, Baltimore, Washington and Northern
  Virginia
• Final Program for June OU Series
• Support establishing Standards Education
  Committee at June OU Series

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IEEE Educational Web Portal

• Support IEEE Educational Portal Effort
• One Stop Shop for Educational Consumer
• Expert Now
• Educational Partners
• Educational Courses and Conference Workshops
• Section Courses
• IEEE IP/IEL
• Certification and CUs
• Tracking and link to Staff
• Establish a focus group group to review efforts
• Committee Lead Helene Fung

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IEEE Educational Web Portal2006-07 Action Plan

• Initiated Review of Educational Portal
• Coordination with Jill Bagley, IEEE Staff
• Avoid US Centric
• Generalize IEEE USA information or link from
  outside
• Common Template for TAB units Educational
  Resources(Long term Consistent look and feel)
• Establish Focus Group for Educational Portal
  Review
• US and International Representation
• Member and Non-Member Representation
• Establish prior to November OU Series

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Expert Now IEEE

• Designed to capture and provide IEEE technical
  tutorial Intellectual Propriety to organizations
  and members
• A new educational product for the IEEE
• Currently being marketed in a partnership with
  Thompson
• Breaking new ground in the technical education
  area
• On line tutorial courses with Continuing
  Education Credit available
• Currently about 50 one hour courses in Library
• Business plan is a work in progress
• Committee Lead Jim Tien

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Expert Now IEEE2006-07 Action Plan

• Currently 25 additional modules have been
  committed in 2006
• Goal of 30 additional modules in 2007
• Member Access to Expert Now scheduled for Fall
  2006
• with basic course for minimum cost
• Marketing Approaches
• Thompson increasing effort to primarily identify
  leads in Industry and Government
• IEEE Marketing is starting to approach primarily
  academic
• contacts
• Business Plan is being revised to reflect reality
  of identifying customers and selling them a new
  product

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Current Status

• Educational Partners needs new Name
• Recommending Certification Marketing Survey
• Standards Workshop Status Update
• Expert Now IEEE Business Plan