Collaboration in Online Higher Education: Benefits & Obstacles CADE-ACED June 9, 2003 St....

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Collaboration in Online Higher Education:

Benefits&ObstaclesCADE-ACEDJune 9, 2003St. John’s Newfoundland

Who we are

11 universities

Who we are

Complementarity

Common principles: AccessibilitySharing of expertiseCross-promotion

What we’ve done

Processes and procedures

Website

Internal communication

Establish foundation

What we’ve done

Processes and procedures

Website

Internal communicationCampus Canada

PartnersLearnersServicesPrograms

Benefits to CVU-secretariat-marketing-opportunities

What we’ve done

Learning Objects

Promotion

What we’ve doneResidency report, GEN

seminar, CADE presentation

Online science lab

together

Benefits

Program and course selection

Services

Fee savings

to students

- 250 programs, 2000 courses

- central enquiries, common forms

Benefits

Opportunities

Learning

to partners

“We've been successful at garnering R&D$ that would not have been available to us as individual institutions”

“It has attracted national and international opportunities we wouldn’t have had otherwise”“I learned a lot about distance education issues outside my own institution.”

Benefitsto partners

“Networking”

“Visibility”

“Raise d.e. profile”

“Branding”

“Good marketing vehicle”

“Useful discussions”

“Well managed”

“Increased enrolment in part-time students”

Challenges

Documenting registrations

Niche

Sustainable business model

Collaborative program development

Principles for Sustainable Collaboration

What makes CVU work

“An excellent initiative that was very well planned and executed”

“I think it’s successful from the point of view of having a dynamic and professional image”

“I think CVU is very well managed and has exceptional communication”

“It has diverse institutions working together fairly effectively across jurisdictions”

“Successful culture that challenges us to work together”

Measures of consortium strength

Can a student take a whole program through the consortium without having to physically move between institutions ?

Can a student automatically or without much trouble transfer credits and courses from one institution to another within the consortium?

½Does the consortium provide “one-stop shopping”, namely student services, registration, fee payment, at any single point

Do students have a much wider range of choice of courses, and at better quality, resulting from the consortium’s activities?Can a student pay the same fee for the same kind of course irrespective of institution?

Foundations for a strong consortium

Strategic

Commitment

Trust

Vicky BuschExecutive Director

CVU-UVC vickyb@cvu-uvc.ca

780 675 6791