Fostering Collaboration within a Consortium:

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Fostering Collaboration within a Consortium

• The CIC Learning Technologies Initiative

Roger Clark, CIC John Harwood, Penn State Kathy
Christoph, U of Wisconsin
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About the C I C

• Academic consortium founded in 1958
• Origins in and close connection to membership in
  the Big Ten athletic conference
• Programs and activities extending to all areas of
  university operation except intercollegiate
  athletics
• Governing body the provosts

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CIC Member Universities
University of Chicago University of
Illinois Indiana University University of
Iowa University of Michigan Michigan State
University University of Minnesota Northwestern
University Ohio State University Pennsylvania
State University Purdue University University of
Wisconsin-Madison
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About the C I C

• Academic consortium founded in 1958
• Origins in and close connection to membership in
  the Big Ten athletic conference
• Programs and activities extending to all areas of
  university operation except intercollegiate
  athletics
• Governing body the provosts

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C I Cs Founding Principles

• No single institution can or should attempt to be
  all things to all people
• Inter-institutional cooperation permits
  experimentation and progress beyond the
  capability of any single institution
• Voluntary cooperation fosters effective action
  while preserving institutional autonomy and
  diversity

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Examples of Early CIC Programs(1958-85)

• Traveling Scholars Program
• Summer Program in Mexico
• Summer Geology Field Camp
• Feature Film Coop
• Predoctoral Fellowship Program
• Astronomical Data Reduction and Analysis Facility
• French Program in Quebec

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Examples of Recent CIC Programs (1985-97)

• Summer Research Opportunities Program
• Alliance for Success
• CICNet
• Coordinated Preservation Microfilming
• Virtual Electronic Library
• Women in Science and Engineering
• CIC Electronic Journals Collection
• Alliances for Expanded Study in Overseas Programs
  (AESOP)
• Learning Technologies Initiative

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The Learning Technologies Initiative How we got
from nowhere to somewhere

• The seed is planted and a task force appointed
  (1994)
• Symposium on Learning Technologies (1995)
• Beyond the Symposium
• Vision
• Objectives

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Beyond the Symposium

• OBJECTIVES
• Enhanced communication
• Collaborative acquisition and development
• Shared instruction
• Shared information resources
• Training and support
• Technical and administrative infrastructures to
  support and encourage cooperative activities

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Conspiring to Collaborate Six Strategies for
Success

• Regular meetings of LTI
• Sharing of information via newsletters
• Sponsorship of conferences
• Seed-Grant initiative
• Sponsorship of video courses
• Consortial participation in the Instructional
  Management Systems

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Regular LTI Meetings

• Provost appoints one representative to the LTI
  group.
• LTI members meet quarterly, forming a cohesive
  group of change agents.
• Goal is to find or create opportunities to
  facilitate collaborationto make collaboration
  routine among faculty at 13 institutions.

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Sponsored Conferences

• CIC TechForum 97 (1997)
• Web-based Tools for Teaching and Learning (1997)
• Computational Science and Engineering
  Instructional Technology Workshop
  (1997)
• Symposium on Technology and Foreign Language
  Learning (1996)

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Seed Grants
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Seed Grants
Stimulate development of Instructional technology
Goals
Learn how to work together
Reap benefits of collaboration
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Seed Grants
Institution
Grants
Univ. of Chicago Univ. of Illinois Indiana
Univ. Univ. of Iowa Univ. of Michigan Michigan
State Univ. of Minnesota Northwestern Univ. Ohio
State Penn State Purdue Univ. of Wisconsin
Chemistry Foreign Languages Nursing Political
Science Art History Geophysics Education Philosoph
y Computer Science Yoruba Engineering
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Seed Grants
Institution
Grants
Univ. of Chicago Univ. of Illinois Indiana
Univ. Univ. of Iowa Univ. of Michigan Michigan
State Univ. of Minnesota Northwestern Univ. Ohio
State Penn State Purdue Univ. of Wisconsin
Chemistry Foreign Languages Nursing Political
Science Art History Geophysics Education Philosoph
y Computer Science Yoruba Engineering
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Seed Grants
Enhanced Communication Efficiency
Bellwether for L.T. Issues
Benefits of Collaboration
Access to Courses
Shared Instruction Between Institutions
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Collaboration

• Course Example

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Collaboration
Political Science Graduate Seminar Time-Series
Analysis

• University of Illinois
• University of Minnesota
• Ohio State
• University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Collaboration
Offer high quality courses in diverse subject
areas
Address special needs of graduate level students
Goals
Pool expertise from CIC campuses
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Collaboration
How it works
Univ. of Wisconsin
Ohio State
Univ. of Minnesota
Univ. of Illinois
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Collaboration

• Access to advanced seminar
• Opportunity to work with highly regarded faculty
• Team teaching
• expanded range of expertise
• multiple opinions
• faculty debate
• Other faculty participation
• Community building and professional camaraderie

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Instructional Management System

• IMS

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Consortial Support of the IMS Project

• CIC as a partner.
• Regular participation of institutions via
  conference calls, email, and sharing of
  information at the 1997 TechForum.
• Small team of test-bed institutions will share
  insights and approaches with larger group of CIC
  institutions.

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Impediments to Cooperation

• Unenlightened self-interest (turf protection)
• Enlightened self-interest
• Not Invented Here Syndrome
• Not Quite Our Way Syndrome
• Mismatches of schedules, fees, technology
  platforms

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Success Factors--I

• A defined set of cooperating peer institutions
  with well-established horizontal and vertical
  relationships
• Upward/downward pressure, peer and otherwise
• Competitive advantages
• Mechanisms to make collaboration routine (e.g.,
  Common Market of Courses and Institutes)

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Vertical Horizontal IntegrationA simplified
table of two...
University 1 University 2 President
lt---------------gt President
Provost lt-----------------gt
Provost
Vice-Presidents lt---------gt Vice-Presidents
Deans
lt-------------------gt Deans
Directors lt---------------gt
Directors
Department Heads lt--------gt Department Heads
Faculty
lt-----------------gt Faculty
Students lt----------------gt
Students
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Success Factors--I

• A defined set of cooperating peer institutions
  with well-established horizontal and vertical
  relationships
• Upward/downward pressure, peer and otherwise
• Competitive advantages
• Mechanisms to make collaboration routine (e.g.,
  Common Market of Courses and Institutes)

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Success Factors--II

• Support from top university levels
• Funding
• Leadership
• Direction
• Coordination
• Support
• Richness depth of human resources

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CIC Information
Http//www.cic.net/cic/lti/