Mulligan, B., Mulligan, B., Schroeder, R. "Faculty Centric Online Learning- An old tradition in a new format." EDUCA Online Conference, Berlin, Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2011
Faculty Centric Online Learning- An old tradition in a new format
1. Faculty-centric online learning:
An old tradition in a new format.
Brian Mulligan
Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland
Ray Schroeder
University of Illinois at Springfield
EDUCA 2011, Berlin, Nov 30th- Dec 2nd, 2011
2. Is this true?
• Online courses must be
developed to the highest level of
quality!
• Significant investment in design
and content is required for an
online course!
3. University of Illinois at Springfield
• 1997 to date
• Mostly asynchronous
• Autonomy of Faculty
• No requirements for
– Training
– Design
• No extra quality assurance
• 1,425 students (37% of activity)
4. University of Illinois
“Global Campus”
• 2006 – 2009
• $9m investment
• Separate from normal operations
• Faculty create content
– Following a template
– Delivered by others
• Closed in 2009
– Courses transferred to departments
6. IT Sligo approach
• 2002 to date
• Lecturer Autonomy
• Live online evening classes
• Textbooks and handouts
– No investment in content
• Independent learning (Assignments)
• Asynchronous support
– From lecturers and peers
• Attendance where necessary
• Continuous Improvement approach
7. How did it go?
• 790 students (8%)
• High performance and customer satisfaction
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8. What were other Irish (European?)
institutions doing?
• Developing content
• Looking for scale economies
• Market research
• Pedagogical research.
• Detailed and Planning and Design
• Collaboration
• Submitting grant applications
• Hiring specialists (non-faculty)
• Top-down initiatives
9. How were they getting on?
• Slow going
• Scale of operations:
~140,000 full-time higher education students in
Ireland
~5,000 in IT Sligo
• IT Sligo had around the same number of
online courses as all the other HE institutions
put together.
20. • We have the right people.
– Distance learning experts
– Educational researchers
– Instructional designers
– Information technologists
– Multi-media specialists
21. Any Questions
Brian Mulligan, Institute of Technology Sligo,
(Ireland) mulligan.brian@itsligo.ie
Ray Schroeder, University of Illinois at
Springfield (USA) rschr1@uis.edu
Notes de l'éditeur
Story about student from Israel looking for an online electronics course.
Click for “Evening Classes” Click again for ‘online’ Just imagine you could come in and teach evening classes and that people could join in without driving in. So what was involved (in putting these evening classes online)