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Faculty Victorious: Surviving the Dot Com Threat

Faculty Victorious: Surviving the Dot Com Threat. Dr. Jacqueline Moloney August 27 th , 2001 Teaching And Learning with Technology Conference. Clouds looming over education. Growing costs criticized Quality of instruction and curriculum questioned Decline enrollments/over capacity

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Faculty Victorious: Surviving the Dot Com Threat

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  1. Faculty Victorious:Surviving the Dot Com Threat Dr. Jacqueline Moloney August 27th, 2001 Teaching And Learning with Technology Conference

  2. Clouds looming over education • Growing costs criticized • Quality of instruction and curriculum questioned • Decline enrollments/over capacity • Reduced public funding “Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won’t survive.” Peter Drucker, 1997 Forbes

  3. Web Drives Dot Com Economy • Wild forecasts and predictions • Venture capital, start-ups and e-commerce • Spin off’s and Dot Com’s emerge • Everything becomes a potential commodity and profit margin • Education targeted as a killer market niche

  4. “Spin-offs” and “Dot Coms” Heralded in Higher Ed • A means to introduce business principles • Venture capital available to jump start initiatives • Online learning to provide low-cost alternatives • Spin offs to provide needed revenue streams

  5. Threats and hype dominate the headlines

  6. July/August,1998

  7. Jumping on the bandwagon: universities seek new paradigms • Pensare • Unext.com • Fathom.com • Cardean • Capella

  8. March,2000

  9. Traditional bricks add clicks to their repertoire Early adopters show high levels of satisfaction Quality Online Courses and programs have begun to flourish Getting past the hype: Faculty use the web to enhance teaching and learning

  10. Where are the Dot Com’s now?

  11. Education is our core business There are a myriad of options to use the web to Enhance on-campus courses Create hybrid courses Teach completely online Technical and human infrastructure to support teaching with web technology essential Teams and alliances maximize potential Can stimulate needed entrepreneurial activity What have we learned?Institutional lessons

  12. Faculty involvement is critical to future success Address Faculty concerns head on Teaching with web technology requires upfront investment of time Faculty can’t work alone when teaching with web technology Lessons from the faculty

  13. Students gain benefit of learning new technologies Students more expressive, interactive onloine More opportunities for interacting with the materials Flexibility, convenience can outweigh advantage of being in class Lessons learned:how do students benefit?

  14. Is it time to declare victory?

  15. Web and Web Technology in infancy Organizations have to adapt & grow Develop an army of new professionals with expertise in web-based strategies Create national resources that organize the information explosion Pursue cost effective strategies and Provide equal access Research on effectiveness New challenges on the horizon

  16. http://www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/jalnhttp://dce.ucf.edu/aln/http://continuinged.uml.edu/onlinehttp://intralearn.uml.edu/demo/signin.htmlwww.umassonline.nethttp://www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/jalnhttp://dce.ucf.edu/aln/http://continuinged.uml.edu/onlinehttp://intralearn.uml.edu/demo/signin.htmlwww.umassonline.net

  17. Education is Our Core Business

  18. Contact Information • Jaqueline F. Moloney, Ed.D Dean CSCE UMass Lowell • Visit homepage at: http://continuinged.uml.edu/jmoloney

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