National Learning Infrastructure Initiative Newcomers’ Orientation

January 2002 Current NLII Staff Carole Barone, Vice-President Vicki Suter, Director of NLII Projects Tor Cross, READY Project Manager Colleen Carmean, 2002 Fellow Jeremy Haefner, 2002 Fellow John Ittelson, 2001 Fellow Helen Knibb, 2001 Fellow

January 2002 Presentation Outline NLII Operational Framework Vision Mission Goals Strategies Research Cycle Themes Programs Projects

January 2002 NLII Vision Enable education that is Active & learner-centered Dynamic and lifelong Collaborative Cost-effective High quality Accessible

January 2002 NLII Mission Create new collegiate learning environments that harness the power of information technology to improve the quality of teaching and learning, contain or reduce rising costs, and provide greater access to higher education

January 2002 Operational Framework

January 2002 NLII Programs Annual Meeting Focus sessions Online workshops Fellowship Publications Online resources Experimental testbeds READY branches

January 2002 NLII Strategies Provide a learning and knowledge- creation environment. Sponsor new partnership initiatives/forge new partnerships. Provide support for break-through leadership. Follow a rigorous research and development cycle.

January 2002 Implications for members Participate in a community of practice that benefits from and enlarges a body of knowledge Beta-test and pilot new products and services Gain early information about developing partnerships Have early access (one year) to developing white papers, books, projects & web resources

January 2002 Membership Benefits Registration fee waived for the first five participants from your institution or organization to attend the NLII Annual Meeting (normally $750 per person) Registration fee waived for three participants each from your institution or organization to attend the three NLII Focus Sessions held annually (normally $250 per person)

January 2002 Membership Benefits, cont. Influence direction of NLII and advance national goals Learn about emergent technology, practices, and issues related to teaching and learning Participate in a high-level national forum on transforming teaching and learning and influence national policy

January 2002 Research Cycle Based on Vision, Mission, and Goals Framework for NLII Program & Projects Three-year thematic life cycle Ten themes at different stages (3 entering, 3 maturing, 3 completed) at any one time Cycle: Identification Collection Generation Dissemination

January 2002 NLII Research Cycle Identification Collection Generation Dissemination

January 2002 NLII Research Cycle Identification Monitor emerging issues Choose key themes Develop conceptual frameworks for themes

January 2002 NLII Research Cycle Collection Identify patterns & relationships Conduct informal research Collect case studies

January 2002 NLII Research Cycle Generation Identify promising practices Generate principles & define policy issues

January 2002 NLII Research Cycle Dissemination Distribute shared knowledge in multiple modes Mainstream new ideas

January 2002 Teaching & Learning “Space” Mapping the topic space to gain higher level view (“concept mapping”) Teaching and Learning Taxonomy Looking at activities occurring in that space (other associations, organizations) & coordinating with them Choosing key themes

Continuous learning Corporatisation of learning (e.g. branding) Globalisation of learning New business models (partnerships, consortia, collaboration) Brokering (WGU) E-business/enterprise (e.g. e-Cornell) Enterprise portals (eg Fathom, Cardean) Campus based portals State networks Corporate universities Assessment Assessment of institutional readiness E-portfolios (student, faculty, course, institutional) Transformative assessment Quality assurance and accreditation Outcomes, competencies and benchmarking IPR Knowledge management Personalised learning plans Student Support Services Value Web Online communities of practice, learning and PD E-learning E-books Leadership Pedagogy/learning Learner centredness Object Repositories (Merlot, Pool) IT planning IMS/SCORM Metadata standards LMS and LCMS Learning objects Digital repositories (libraries) Transformation of organisational culture Faculty engagement and support Laptops, PDAs iPAQs Wireless communication 24/7 Ubiquitous computing SEM/CRM Teaching and Learning Centres Outsourcing Advanced networks Security and privacy Institutional Transformation Recognition and reward Organising & governing IT Changing learner characteristics drivers culture strategies principles AlignmentScalability AccountabilityCapacity CommunicationSustainability Human resource issues

January 2002

Dissemination Projects Key themes page Re-design of NLII Web site Exploration of new technologies that provide dynamic environment for developing themes and resources (virtual community/knowledge management)

January 2002 Experimental Testbed Projects Transformative Assessment Project NLII, TLT Group, CNI, and UC Focus Session Online workshop Online community Online Communities Discuss common problems and issues Share documents, solutions or best practices Collaborate on projects Plan for face-to-face meetings; continue relationships beyond face-to-face events

January 2002 NLII Fellowship Program 2 half-time, one-year fellowships Targets faculty and learning support staff in higher education Fellows study, analyze, assess and implement specific aspects of institutional transformation 2001 Fellows: John Ittelson, Helen Knibb 2002 Fellows: Colleen Carmean; Jeremy Haefner

January Annual Meeting “Innovative Practice, Policy & Partnerships: A New Alignment” January 27 – 29, 2002 U.S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, CA

January 2002 Focus Sessions Working sessions Small (usually around 40 participants) Regionally-based Highly interactive Organized around questions related to a theme, with a view to advancing the body of knowledge about that theme Initial exploration, conceptual framework, definition of issues and patterns, identification of promising practices, emergence of principles

January Focus Sessions Alignment of Planning March, 2001, Worcester, MA Sponsored by University of Rhode Island, MIT Partnering in the Learning Marketspace May, 2001, San Diego, CA Sponsored by Eduprise

January 2002 Alignment in Planning Purpose To advance the body of thought on how to align action, including policy, project selection and assessment with strategic goals. Participants: Rhode Island, MIT, Hartford Provosts, vice-provosts, faculty

January 2002 Work Products READY branch (under development) Webliography (under development) Presentations at NLII 2002 Annual Meeting

January 2002 Alignment in Planning Focus Session (March 2001) For more information, plan on attending the “Alignment in Planning” concurrent session Tuesday, January 29, :40 – 12:30 Horton E Helen Knibb & John Cavanaugh

January 2002 Partnering in the Learning Marketspace (May 2001) Purpose To advance the body of thought on the alternatives and issues involved for institutional partnering and for partnering with commercial service providers To develop and implement highly leveraged strategies for e-learning – the use of Internet technologies in teaching and learning. Participants: Public, private, and corporate education and state government

January 2002 Work Products Book (Hill Duin and Baer) Focus Session READY branch “Developing a Successful Partnership Investment Portfolio” white paper based on focus session and results of year’s follow-up research Presentations at Annual Meeting

January 2002 Annual Meeting Presentations Featured session, “Developing a Successful Partnership Investment Portfolio, ” Ann Hill Duin, and Linda Baer Monday, January 28, :45 – 11:45 AM, Grand Ballroom A Companion concurrent session, “A Showcase of Successful Partnership Investment Portfolios” Monday, January 28, :00 – 1:50 PM, Grand Ballroom A

January Focus Sessions Transformative Assessment Systems: Step One (March 15, 2002 in Denver, Colorado) Innovative Instructional Design: The Art & the Science (May 31, 2002 in Vancouver, B.C.) E-Portfolios – Fall, 2002 (Location and date tba)

January 2002 Transformative Assessment Systems Transformative assessment systems are institution-wide assessment strategies that are designed and implemented in an integrated way for all levels (the course, the program, and the institution) for the purpose of systematically transforming teaching and learning institution-wide, according to institutional goals.

January 2002 Developing issues/Fellows research E-Portfolios (John Ittelson) Learning Design Principles (Helen Knibb)

January 2002 Aligning online design with principles of learning Building bridges between learning theory and practice Exploring new roles for the faculty- designer Applying principles of learning to shape and form learning activity Integrating learning principles in the design of online environments

January 2002 Work Products White paper Online resource linking to new models, effective practices, learning and design theory Focus session: The design of learning environments, May 31, 2002, Vancouver

January 2002 Featured session Learner Centered by Practice: using what we know about learning and cognition in the designing for the online environment Monday, a.m. Grand Ballroom B&C Companion Concurrent: Monday, pm.Grand Ballroom B&C

January 2002 Electronic Portfolios An area of emerging interest across the Academy Term needs an adjective Institutional Personal Private or public Collaborations

January 2002 E-Portfolios Partners Stanford Learning Lab Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching University of Alaska, Anchorage Department of Labor iSEEK Solutions California State University, Monterey Bay

January 2002 E-Portfolios Workproducts Resources database and web site Fall 2002 Focus Session E-PAC working group Related Events NECC pre-workshop (June, 2002) AAHE presentation (June 2002)

January 2002 Annual Meeting Presentations Featured Session, “On the Wings of Change: E-Portfolios Take Off” Tuesday, January 29, :15 – 10:15 AM Grand Ballroom B&C Companion Concurrent Session Tuesday, 11:40 – 12:30 Grand Ballroom A

January 2002 Annual Meetings NLII Sustaining Members only Smaller, more accessible venue (300 attendees) Interactive Presentations & companion discussion sessions Focus is on transformation of teaching and learning Principles & policies Case studies Effective practices

January 2002 Emerging Issue Who is this “New Student?” What is the “New Student” Wearing, and What Does That Have to Do with University Facilities Design and Planning? You can view the full agenda at

January 2002 READY Project READiness inventorY Resources, effective practices and glossaries in an interactive, Web- based decision support tool.

January 2002 The Tool Web-based, decision tree An interactive way of accessing information from White papers Surveys Publications Etc. Version 2 will be available by the middle of December, 2001.

January 2002 The Content Two content areas are well developed: Deliver Online Learning Partner in the Learning Marketspace Others are under initial development: Align Planning Deliver Student Services Engage Faculty Use Transformative Assessment

January 2002 Expected Uses a conceptual framework for complex decisions (identify the key questions and issues that should be considered) a context for a process on campus that encourages and supports useful dialog about those key questions and issues; an interactive medium for dissemination and leveraging of intellectual content developed elsewhere.

January 2002 Possible Institutional Outcomes apply scarce resources strategically address weaknesses and take advantage of strengths respond to the environment move the institution further along the transformation topography create a common vocabulary

READY Version 2 A Preview

January 2002 Future Directions Version 2 will be publicly available in mid December, 2001 In 2002, we will concentrate resources on creating more Focus Areas, rather than adding additional functionality to the Tool.