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Taking the Lead, Strategic Management for e-Learning
Status
Completed: 12 September 2008
Project Details
A Ministry of Education funded project to learn how tertiary institutions are using e-learning practices and develop guidelines for tertiary education practitioners.
A collaboration of AUT University, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Manukau Institute of Technology, Massey University, New Zealand Tertiary College, NorthTec, The Open Polytechnic, Otago Polytechnic, TANZ, Te Whare Wānanga O Awanuiārangi, UCOL, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Wintec and Ako Aotearoa.
Aims:
The project aimed to:
- develop a set of resources and tools to assist institutional leaders to plan and manage their use of e-learning more strategically
- identify the issues of significance and express them as questions that leaders should be asking of their institutional strategy, policy and practice
- publish case studies illustrating a number of strategies used across the New Zealand tertiary education sector.
Methodology:
The methodology of the project featured:
- a series of interviews with tertiary sector representatives to clarify the strategic issues requiring attention and confirm the lack of strategic guidance available
- development of ethics protocols approved by Massey University to set the terms for gathering and publishing data on the institutional case studies.
Team
![AUT](/assets/Organisation-logos/AUT__FillWzI1MCwyNTBd.png)
Andrew Higgins
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)![massey university](/assets/Organisation-logos/massey-university__FillWzI1MCwyNTBd.png)
Tom Prebble
Massey UniversityKey Findings
Key 'strategy' questions for institutional leaders
- What are the medium and long-term strategic goals and objectives of your institution?
- How are these strategic goals reflected in your institution’s Learning and Teaching Plan?
- How are these strategic goals reflected in your institution’s more specific plans for e-Learning?
Key 'structure' questions for institutional leaders
- How should you organise and manage for e-Learning?
- More specifically, who should be responsible for what and how should their various efforts be integrated and led?
Key 'resourcing' questions for institutional leaders
- How should e-Learning be resourced within your organisation?
- What will it cost?
Key 'decision-making' questions for institutional leaders
- Who makes the decisions about which courses and programmes will use e-Learning?
- How they will do so?
Key 'collaborating and outsourcing' questions for institutional leaders
- Should you collaborate with other institutions or outsourcing a set of services or developing them in- house?
Key 'selecting technologies' questions for institutional leaders
- What is the problem this technology will solve? What sort of priority is it?
- Do our teachers/students wish to teach/study in this way? How do we know students will achieve their learning outcomes?
- Will we suffer if we simply don’t adopt it?
- What are the implications for staff workload?
- Will the technology open up new markets (geographic, demographic, subject) for us?
- Is it a cost-effective solution in terms of capital and recurrent costs?
- Is it a robust technical solution?
- What implications does this technology have for intellectual property?
Key Recommendations
- Institutional leaders should ask a series of questions of their strategies for e-learning to clarify the strategic issues requiring attention.
- They should draw on the project resources as a guide.
A full report prepared for Ako Aotearoa and the Ministry of Education by AH Higgins and TK Prebble.
(PDF, 479 KB, 68-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A report prepared for Ako Aotearoa and the Ministry of Education Andrew Higgins and Tom Prebble.
(PDF, 2.6 MB, 16-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A report prepared for Ako Aotearoa and the Ministry of Education Andrew Higgins and Tom Prebble.
(PDF, 229 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A two-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 78 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A two-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 82 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A two-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 62 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A two-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 78 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A two-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 78 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A two-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 67 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008
Case study
TANZ – Collaboration Across the Sector
A two-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 67 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008
Case study
NorthTec – Leadership of Core Strategies
A two-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 217 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A two-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 65 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A three-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 67 KB, 3-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A three-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 70 KB, 3-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A two-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 64 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A three-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 70 KB, 3-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A two-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 64 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008
Case study
Massey University – Devolution of Control
A three-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 70 KB, 3-pages).
- 30 September 2008
A two-page case study prepared for Ako Aotearoa and Ministry of Education.
(PDF, 66 KB, 2-pages).
- 30 September 2008