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May 15, 2003 ITTC Advisory Board
e-LEARNING DESIGN
LABORATORY
Ed Meyen & John Gauch
Co-Directors of the e-Learning Design Lab
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OUTLINE
• Mission
• Plan
• Organization
• Demonstrations
• Discussion
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MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the e-Learning Design Laboratory is to create new solutions to the emerging challenges and opportunities in optimizing the application of technology to enhanced learning environments that transcend the educational and training needs of society. This involves the study, development, and research of new designs, principles, practices, tools, policies and learning environments that contribute to the engagement of learners across the life span in the pedagogy of
e-learning.
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VISION• Become an internationally recognized
leader in e-learning research• Demonstrate enhanced learning
environment prototypes• Develop content for enhanced learning
environments• Work with industry to test and evaluate
new e-learning products• Transfer IP developed in the Lab to
industry
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FOCUS AREASLearning
Technologiese-LearningPedagogyPolicy
EconomicImpact
SocialImpact
RESEARCHRESEARCH
Evaluation Services
Technology Transfer
DemonstrationPrototypes
DEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT
Content Development
EnhancedLearning
Environments
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EnhancedLearning
Environments
Evaluation Services
Technology Transfer
DemonstrationPrototypes
Content Development
Learning Technologies
e-LearningPedagogyPolicy
EconomicImpact
SocialImpact
LAB PROJECTS
SCO
Intelligent Agents
Sensors
Style IdentificationLearning VariablesSCO
Content
Tools
Online Assessment
IKMEStaff DevelopmentOnline Academy
Steppingstones
Online HS Exam
State
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STRATEGIC PLANMission
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• Leverage faculty talents within the lab by building research collaborations
• Develop, deploy and evaluate e-Learning systems and products
• Publish results to move e-Learning forward and to support future funding
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EXTERNAL FUNDING
• Research development Fund (KUCR)
• National Science Foundation
• Department of Education
• National Institute On Disability and
Rehabilitation Research
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FOCI OF PROPOSALS
• Primarily research
• Secondary development
• Model building
• Public agencies
• Private industry
• Foundations
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PUBLICATIONS TO POSITION THE LAB
• Conceptual papers
• Papers on results of work
• Broad base of publication
• eDL conference proceedings
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TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
• Spin off companies
• Licensing of products
• Joint ventures
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INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS
• Development
• Research
• Services e.g., beta testing
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ORGANIZATION
Advisory BoardNational Board of Directors
Management TeamCo-Directors
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PIP
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ctPI
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PICouncil of Principal
Investigators
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NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORSMission
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The National Board of Directors has representatives from industry, academe, e-commerce, national centers, training, and the research community. The role of the board will be to advise the directors of ITTC and the CRL on opportunities, external relationships, emerging trends, funding/revenue opportunities, unmet needs and new technologies. The board will meet annually and via teleconferencing as needed. Officers will include a chair and associate chair. Terms will be for two and three years (3 each) and staggered to insure continuity.
Membership: The board will be comprised of six members from Academe, Industry (2), e-commerce, Research and National Centers
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ADVISORY BOARDMission
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The board will advise the directors of the ITTC, CRL and the e-Learning Design Laboratory on mission, policies, procedures, opportunities and relationships to the University. They will also advise on relationships with the University. The board will meet semi-annually. Officers will include a chair and associate chair. Terms will be for two and three years (5 each) and staggered to insure continuity.Membership: The board will be comprised of nine members Affiliated Project PIs (2) ITTC (1) CRL (1) The Division of Continuing Education Lawrence Campus (2) Kansas University Medical Center (1) K-12 Education (1) Business training (1)
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Bill Fuerst, Dean, School of BusinessSusan Gauch, Associate Professor, EECS,
School of EngineeringJimmy Gentry, Dean, School of JournalismKen Heitland, SprintJoe Kitchens, Superintendent,
Western Heights School District, OKKaren Miller, Dean,
School of Nursing and School of Allied HealthBob Senecal, Dean,
Division of Continuing EducationTom Skrtic, Chair, Special Education,
School of EducationNona Tollefson, School of Education,
Psychology and Research in Education
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MANAGEMENT TEAMMission
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Ron Aust (Fellow), Associate Professor, Teaching & Leadership, School of Education
James Miller (Fellow), Associate Professor, EECS, School of Engineering
Cheryl Harrod, Administrative Coordinator
John Gauch, Co-director, Associate Professor,EECS, School of Engineering
Ed Meyen, Co-director, Professor,Special Education, School of Education
Bob Issacson, Staff Representative
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STAFFMission
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Demos Research Faculty 6
Professional Staff 4
Graduate Research Assistants 12
Undergraduates 7
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PRIOR WORK- (Part I) -
1980 Development of instructional units of Instruction (Meyen)1981 Apple IIe Tutorial Course (Meyen)1988 Unified Network Informatics for Teacher Education
UNITE (Aust)1990 Explorer: First web-based client server data base for the
distribution of educational resources (Aust, Evans, Minden, Miller)
1993 Online web-based support for courses in Electrical Engineering (J. Gauch)
1993 Digital Video Library (J. Gauch) 1995 4 Directions (Aust)1995 SCRTEC: (Chaffin and Aust)
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PRIOR WORK - (Part II) -
1996 Development of two fully online streaming media courses (Meyan)
• WALDO: Way Finding Agents for Locating Distributed Objects (S. Gauch, Aust)
1997 Technology-enhanced Learning Environment for course on Multimedia Tools and Techniques for Interactive Presentations and Learning Modules at the University of Colorado (Hinton)
• Technology-enhanced Learning Environment for course on Optical Fiber Communications at the University of Colorado (Hinton)
1997 Development of online seminar (Meyen)
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PRIOR WORK - (Part III) -
1997 Online Academy (Meyen, Aust and Deshler) 1998 Online Staff Development: Online staff development modules (Meyen, Aust and Deshler)1998 Technology-enhanced Learning Environment for course on
Circuits/Electronics III at the University of Colorado (Hinton)
1999 Online Pedagogical Academic Literature: OPAL. This is a searchable data containing the literature pertaining to online instruction (Meyen, Aust and Deshler)
2000 Steppingstones: National Curriculum Standards- online modules (Meyen, Smith, and Deshler)
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PRIOR WORK - (Part IV) -
2000 Technology-enhanced Learning Environment for course on Circuits I at the KU (Hinton)
2000 Technology-enhanced Learning Environment for course on Semiconductor Devices at the KU (Hinton)
2000 Online assessment project (Hinton)2001 Formation of the e-Learning Design Lab (ITTC & CRL)2002 Think Like a Commander Module delivered as part of
IKME project (Meyen and Hinton)
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CURRENT PROJECTS
• Online academy
• Steppingstones
• Staff development
• Intelligent knowledge management
environments (IKME)
• Online HS computer proficiency exam
• State educational agency projects
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DEMONSTRATIONS
• Online Academy consists of 22
content rich modules in support of
teacher training (used at hundreds of
universities nation wide)
• Think Like a Commander module
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ONLINE ACADEMYMission
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INTELLIGIENT KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTSMission
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DISCUSSION
• Commercialization of Academy Products and Tools: Implications for the Lab
• Research and Development Opportunities in the Private Sector
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GOALS OF COMMERCIALIZATION
• Revenue stream for future work
• Added flexibility
• Incentive for researchers and developers
• Dissemination of e-Learning products
• Overcome bureaucratic limitations
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CURRENT AND FUTURE PRODUCTS
• Academy modules (22)
• Staff development modules (8)
• Production process and tools
• Literature data base
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R&D OPPORTUNITIES
• Building large scale e-Learning module production environments
• Creating software necessary to support the next generation of online learning systems
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