D + D Futures

Increased productivity, through a combination of

• Online Professional Development Centre. Easy to build in and for Moodle .... http://pdc.cvc.edu/common/
• Someone is having a strategy
• Learning Services (here is another one) and
• another from UBC's DET: a kind of "how-you-work-with-us" interface. For learners, for instructors
• Distance Education Services
• I like this call-back service
• The Teaching and Educational Development Institute (TEDI) provides support services and staff development to enhance teaching, learning and other aspects of educational development at The University of Queensland. They've got a plan, too.
  
• Here is how our IT department does it & that's the Visual Media Team
• Learning Services include Learning Metis taken care of by D+D. (This one is from the Knowledge Guys)
• Learning Provider Embanet (the best I've seen so far), Sungard is a competitor
• *Embanet Knowledge Group (online Master's degree program)
  
  GW's Graduate School of Education and Human Development has partnered with Embanet Knowledge Group to offer a state-of-the-art, 22-month distance education option for students who want to pursue a Master's degree in Educational Leadership and Administration. Since 1995, Embanet Corporation has been a leading service provider of e-Learning for higher education and offers integrated learning management solutions to more than 350 academic institutions worldwide, servicing over a million learner enrollments per year. Embanet places the highest emphasis on customizing an e-Learning solution that best suits the needs of each learner. To achieve this, Embanet offers fully hosted and supported e-learning solutions to educational institutions.
  
  All Educational Leadership and Administration classes, regardless of whether they are on campus or in a distance format, are taught by the same quality GW/GSEHD faculty members.
  
  For more information about GSEHD's online Master's degree program in Educational Leadership and Administration, please visit Embanet's web site http://www.eddegree.com/, or contact the Embanet admissions advisor:
  
• Learning from the World Bank
• Techsoup
• With benchmark report provided by Hezel Associates, Brandon-Hall
• First-tier support using something like this from OSI Codes and model it after e-Cornell
• Use and expand graph for UofFlorence, Edu. Dept., to visualize job profile(s)
• New channels and distribution formats, e.g. we could do:
  + Conferences (http://www.learningtimes.net/conferences.shtml)
  + Communities (http://www.learningtimes.net/communities.shtml)
  + Workshops - like Thiagi's (http://www.learningtimes.net/workshops.shtml)
  + HP SOU light
  + VNU Learning offerings
  
• Regular internships from students - not just NL - doing their final projects. Could be supported though A&R Fastrack iniative - see this presentation (<>
• A request to work approach, both for TT_design and TT_operation similar to the EP Request site
• CUX' design and developpment service
• Making a case through these results ("OPEN U leads the pack in Student Satisfaction)
• Who are we? What do we stand for? Awards? Services? Look how they do it. (Karta's Overview of Services.)
• This is the situation: we are told "there is a new business model. You have to go the market and compete with other providers (internal as well as external). We then buy you services or not." How would prepare for that?
• Ability to compete for this. Note there was no single response from LLD faculty nor DD. Also note: Going to NL considered too expensive.
• Names to look for