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Item Open Access How-to Design and Implement Academic Program and Course Sharing Partnerships(2010-10-14T16:40:24Z) Anderson, Dawn; dpetersThe PowerPoint presentation “How-To Design and Implement Academic Program and Course Sharing Partnerships” was delivered as a session at the Midwest Consortium: Rural Health and Health Disparities Research in the Heartland during faculty and administrator track session 2 on June 10, 2010, at the University of Kansas Medical Center School of Nursing, Kansas City, Kansas. The 38 slides summarize how Kansas State University’s Institute for Academic Alliances develops and manages collaborative distance education. The presentation exemplifies three collaboration models, gives fast track ideas to implement course exchanges, and gives an overview of ExpanSIS, a secure, web-based student information system for multi-institution course and program management.Item Open Access University Continuing Education Association Panel on Partnering and Collaboration in 2020.(2010-06-24T21:06:54Z) Maes, Sue C.; Matkin, Gary; scmaesItem Open Access Midwest CREST: Credential Repository for Education, Skills and Training Feasibility Study Project(2010-06-10T19:37:28Z) Anderson, Dawn; dpetersItem Open Access Midwest CREST: Credential Repository for Education, Skills and Training Feasibility Study Project(2010-06-10T19:34:33Z) Anderson, Dawn; Schuley, Marcia; Maes, Sue C.; dpeters; mrss; scmaesItem Open Access Inter-Institutional Distance Education Alliances(University of Wisconsin, 2010-02-11T22:45:54Z) Moxley, Virginia; moxleyItem Open Access Developing Institutional Support for an Inter-Institutional Project(Institute for Academic Alliances, 2009-10-20T16:34:00Z) Moxley, Virginia; moxleyItem Open Access Moxley’s Maxims: Consortium Financial Matters(Institute for Academic Alliances, 2009-10-20T16:33:42Z) Virginia, Moxley; moxleyItem Open Access Fragile Partnership to Sustainable Alliance: Rapid-Response Academic Program Development(Association for Continuing Higher Education, 2009-10-06T20:21:43Z) Reinert, Dana; dmr4159Institutions of the future must rapidly respond to market demand (i.e., employer needs and student demand) to thrive in today’s educational marketplace. However, developing and implementing new online professional programs in a timely manner challenges even the most nimble and progressive university leaders. When universities have too few faculty to offer a program in an emerging area, collaboration amongst institutions offers a solid opportunity. Inter-institutional collaboration brings unique challenges, but the barriers can be overcome when the participants involved have common goals. Offering an in-demand program that meets significant regional or national needs means that institutions have to learn how to share curriculum and faculty expertise, acknowledge institutional similarities and differences, and recognize barriers and potential pitfalls as the first step to finding workable solutions. By sharing best practices and lessons learned, this paper delineates strategies for determining market demand for academic programs; explains the logic in collaborating across institutions when resources are limited; outlines how to identify appropriate institutional partners and faculty participants; and demonstrates why barriers to collaboration must be judiciously identified then overcome for the creation of sustainable program alliances.Item Open Access Best Practices in Distance Education Program Selection(Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, 2009-10-01T14:30:41Z) Anderson, Dawn; dpetersHow are academic programs selected for electronic delivery? What are the next hot areas for e-learning programming? Public higher education institutions are being urged to help develop a knowledgeable, skilled and creative workforce that will drive sustained economic growth and diversification. They are being asked to address specific workforce needs while continuing to provide academic excellence in traditional curricular areas. New e-learning programs are frequently self-funded and therefore, must be viewed as a business decision with inherent financial risks. E-learning program selection strategies and processes were researched. Considerations included: institutional strategic plans or policy statements guiding e-learning programming; program selection criteria; and, decision-making tools. Case studies were used to evaluate strategies for identifying and selecting new e-learning programs.Item Open Access Multi-Institution Academic Programs: Dealmakers and Dealbreakers(2009-09-17T16:04:08Z) Anderson, Dawn; Moxley, Virginia; Maes, Sue C.; Reinert, Dana; dpeters; moxley; scmaes; dmr4159Higher education institutions are confronted with increasing demand for electronic access to educational opportunities, improved academic quality and accountability, and new academic programs that address workforce and economic needs. Collaboration allows institutions to combine resources to respond efficiently and effectively to these demands. Universities can bring together their best faculty member(s)with counterparts at similar institutions to rapidly build a new e-learning program that can be offered through each partner institution to a broad audience. The Kansas State University Institute for Academic Alliances (KState IAA) has worked with over 30 multi institution e-learning program start-ups. All of these collaborative initiatives met the K-State IAA criteria for inter-institutional program development, yet some have been wildly successful and others have failed. This paper details some of the reasons for this success (or failure).Item Open Access The Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance(2009-09-17T16:03:45Z) Moxley, Virginia M.; Maes, Sue C.; moxley; scmaesThe landscape for higher education delivery has evolved from the traditional classroom-based, instructor-led format toward one that is internet-based and learner-led. To manage a change of this magnitude in an era of fragile public funding, universities—and higher education oversight boards and state legislatures—have discovered the potential of inter-institutional collaboration to deploy rapidly new undergraduate and postbaccalaureate programs to meet emerging needs of the professions and to target professionals seeking education for career advancement and career change. Institutions are banding together in innovative ways to capitalize on their collective and interconnected technological and human capacity, and many states have formed statewide alliances for the purpose of delivering educational courses and programs to students at a distance. The Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance for the Human Sciences (Great Plains IDEA) that is described in this paper is a consortium of ten human sciences colleges located in ten states that capitalizes on the talents of inter-institutional faculty teams to offer distance education master’s degrees and postbaccalaureate certificates.Item Open Access Alliance Leadership(Institute for Academic Alliances, 2009-09-10T16:05:25Z) Moxley, Virginia; moxleyLeading an alliance is inherently striving for balance between alliance and individual institution interests. In this paper, Dr. Virginia Moxley details several strategies for ensuring that alliance and institutional interests are in accord. When these interests align, a successful alliance is possible.Item Open Access Inter-Institutional Acadeimc Alliances - When, Why, Who, and How?(Institute for Academic Alliances, 2009-09-10T16:04:19Z) Moxley, Virginia; moxleyUniversities are collaborating to deliver online academic programs that capitalize on their technological and human capacities. Inter-institutional programs have the advantages of distributed risks, increased reach, and greater depth and scope. This paper focuses on the attributes of administrative teams that successfully lead such alliances and the strategies they employ to create sustainable programs.
