DARE TO LEAD

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DARE TO LEAD

• Marilyn Welshs Visit to
• Holmesglen TAFE
• (October 99)

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MARILYN WELSH

• Centre for New Technologies in Teaching and
  Learning (Seneca College)
• Title Faculty Liaison - Online Projects
• author Orchestrating Multimedia (book, CD ROM)

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SENECA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

• Toronto, Ontario
• 14,000 f/t students 83,000 p/t
• Programs Business Studies, IT, Child Studies,
  Digital Media/Graphic Arts
• 30 of all courses offered online
• 80 of students have PC/Internet access

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CORNERSTONES OF SENECAS ONLINE PROGRAM 1

• 60 technology fee for all mainstream
  students per 14 week semester
• 3 semesters/year
• employ student labour to design online materials
• online training for staff in online teaching
  skills

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CORNERSTONES OF SENECAS ONLINE PROGRAM 2

• all students do a unit in New Media Literacy
• staff given interest free loans to acquire PCs
  for home use
• they are their own Internet provider

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THE 60 TECHNOLOGY FEE...

• Allows
• materials development
• professional development
• staff release for materials production
• employment of students
• all students dial up Internet access on and off
  campus

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STUDENT LABOUR PROGRAM

• govt sponsored traineeships for Multimedia
  students
• Payment (approximate figures)
• - from Seneca budget
• 2.50/hr (technology centre)
• 4.00 (technology fee)
• - Government sponsorship
• 4.50/hr

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• 6.5 f/t staff
• 15 students
• centre of production for online materials
• centre of professional development in technology
  for staff
• website - makes their function clear
• (http//cnt.senecac.on.ca/)

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ISSUES 1

• Why online learning?
• If so,
• What kind of online learning?
• fully remote?
• adjunctive? (classroom teaching with online as an
  adjunct)

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ISSUES 2

• do we proceed as DMI or
• as part of SA TAFE?
• are we prepared to provide (find) the money and
  the time?
• delivery platform - WebCT? Other? None?
• Firewall - many excellent technologies for online
  teaching are inaccessible inside TAFE firewall

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RECOMMENDATIONS 1

• Investigate
• the feasibility of a technology fee
• ways to subsidise student employment (via Mind
  Media)
• becoming our own ISP
• professional development models
• possibility of using Senecas online training
  modules for staff (under license)

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RECOMMENDATIONS 2

• Investigate
• providing all staff with PCs for home use via
  interest free loans
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• maintain link with Seneca
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• Poll all students on
• PC/Internet access (via enrolment form)
• desire for online learning

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Changing to a Flexible Delivery Culture
Only work teams can implementchange.
Work teams need time to make meaning of
change and need to be empowered to get on with
it in their own way - a way that is based on the
reality of their workplace and not on the
rhetoric of policy.
reluctance to engage does not indicate that
workteams are obdurate or stupid - they just
need the opportunity to make meaning.
- Anne Walsh (LearnScope facilitator) LearnScope
forum 20/10/99
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Changing to a Flexible Delivery Culture

• Where does that lead?
• appropriate professional development and support
• should professional development take precedence
  over materials development?