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Saturday, March 25, 2006
Effective Change Management Strategies for Embedding Online Learning within Higher Education - Geoff Goolnik, TOJDE
Knowledge has become a critical factor in “determining security, prosperity, and quality of life, the global nature of our society, [and] the ease with which information technology….enables the rapid exchange of information, and networking…..” (Duderstadt, p. 220, 2000). Universities, as engines of knowledge, have an obvious and crucial role to play here relating to staff, students and their wider environment. In the UK, higher education is now charged by government with attracting greater numbers of students. However, at the same time as this expansion is taking place, the running costs of higher education have grown alongside a relative decline in monies being received from government sources and increased demands made for greater accountability for the sums that have been allocated (Dearlove, 2002). In this context, UK universities are being encouraged to be more entrepreneurial and innovative in their activities and less reliant on public funding; they are being urged to adopt the very technology that has brought about the explosion of the knowledge economy to deliver and support learning flexibly and cost-effectively.
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Thanks for your comment. I agree! We have been engaged in inter-institutional collaborations using online learning technologies. This past year Shari McCurdy, associate director of OTEL and I presented at a number of conference on this topic. see: http://otel.uis.edu/Portal/aboutOTEL/outreachListAll.asp. Best, ray Online Learning News Blog Archives OTEL - Ray's Home Page - Notebook - UIS Online - U of I Online - UIS Home Fair Use
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