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Learning Outcomes
1. Understand components of aspirational goals toward continuous improvement in online learning
2. Understand strategies to think about institutional strategies in online learning
3. Demonstrate an understanding of each of the 7 Hallmarks of Excellence through completion of corresponding activities.
Hallmarks of Excellence
Strategies for effectively influencing your campus as a leader in online learning and innovation. Seven facets of leadership and organizational development
http://www.upcea.edu/hallmarks
Internal Advocacy. Recognizing that online education, by its very nature, will be an integrated and extensive facet of its university, those charged with leading an enterprise must build internal alliances, and reflect the larger goals, values, and strategies of their institutions.
Activity: Discussion how does the online initiative supports the mission and strategic plan of your institution.
Entrepreneurial Initiative. Recognizing that online education is inevitably about innovation, experimentation, risk, and imagination, emerging leaders must have the skills and creativity to facilitate responsible change.
Activity: Identify one innovative initiative at your institution that is entrepreneurial.
Faculty Support. Recognizing that online education is not a solitary instructional process, but one that requires extensive support and resources, leaders must envelop their faculty with the tools they need to create education equal to, if not exceeding, that of the traditional classroom.
Activity: Discussion of current practices and short term goals in supporting faculty at your institution.
Student Support. Recognizing that online students demand a learning experience at least comparable to that on-campus, leaders must be ongoing advocates for students earning their degrees remotely from their institutions.
Activity: Discussion of current practices and short term goals in supporting students at your institution.
Digital Technology. Recognizing that technology creates both opportunities and anxieties, leaders must provide an environment that is current, dependable, and rich in the creative use of tools to enhance learning, interaction, and program integrity.
Activity: How would you rank your institution's use and adoption of digital technologies in teaching and learning?
External Advocacy. Recognizing that online enterprises must represent their institutions to an often skeptical public, leaders must be an authoritative voice to regulators, accreditors, alumni, members of the business community, and many others.
Activity: Discussion of your institution's participation in associations, publications, and presentations.
Professionalism. Recognizing that emerging entities need policies and practices that demonstrate the integrity of a profession still establishing itself, those leading the growth of online learning must exemplify the highest ideals and contribute to a growing professional community on a national scale.
Activity: Write a three minute elevator speech that you might use with your top administrators or board of trustees.
Contact information:
Dr. Vickie Cook
Director of the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service
University of Illinois Springfield
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https://sites.google.com/a/uis.edu/colrs_cook/
217-206-7317