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The Road to Distance Learning May Be Closer Than You Think...
Polley Ann McClure
Vice President, Information Technologies
Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Cornell University
Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary Change
Graph shows Problem Solving increasing over Time
New Needs
The Education Puzzle
- Corporate Training (48%)
- Proprietary Education (3%)
- Research Universities (16%)
- Doctoral/masters institutions (14%)
- Baccalaureate colleges (4%)
- Associates of arts (9%)
- Health/medicine (3%)
- Other specialized (1%)
- Traditional higher education maintains focus on traditional mission.
New participants absorb growth.
- Traditional higher education expands mission to meet new needs
and provides most of the growth.
"Going to college..." (Moffatt, 1989; Austin, 1992)
Traditional Culture
- Learning as a social good
- Teaching, research, outreach
- Social critique
- Search for truth
- Structure
- A community
- "At a slight angle to the universe" (Bowen, 2001)
"Taking, as a starting point, 1530, when the Lutheran Church was founded, some 66 institutions
that existed then still exist today in the Western World in recognizable form; the Catholic Church,
the Lutheran Church, the parliaments of Iceland and the Isle of Man, and 62 universities... They
have experienced wars, revolutions, depressions, and industrial transformations, and have come out
less changed than almost any other segment of their societies." Clark Kerr (1980)
Reach More Students
- New groups of students
- Convenience
- Productivity enhancement
- Capital vs. labor
Improved Learning
- Expectations of "n-gen"
- Multi-media brains
- Visualization
- Learning styles
- Active learning
- Personalization
Two Cultures: Faculty and Technologists (Brown & Jackson, 2001)
- Both: fascination with new ideas
- Technologists: Liberal presumption about change
- Faculty: Conservative presumption about change
Cornell University
- Founded 1865
- 13 colleges
- A private university with a land-grant mission
- 13,500 undergraduates
- 5,900 graduate and professional
- 2,300 faculty
- 9,000 staff
- 192,000 living alumni
eCornell
- Founded September, 2000
- Wholly owned by Cornell
- Funded by Cornell at $36 million
- Offices in Ithaca and NYC
- 50 employees
- Specialize in professional/ career education
- Focus on specialties where we have deep knowledge
- Work with Cornellís top-rated schools
eCornell: Hospital for Special Surgery
| Course |
Date |
| Pediatric Orthopaedics |
June 2001 |
| Advanced Osteoporosis |
June 2001 |
| Sports Medicine |
Nov 2001 |
| Basic Osteoporosis |
Nov 2001 |
| Athletic Knee |
Dec 2001 |
| American College of Rheumatology Board Review |
Feb 2002 |
eCornell: Industrial and Labor Relations School
| Course |
Date |
| HR and the Law |
June 2001 |
| Fundamentals of Employee Benefits |
Dec 2001 |
| Building and Managing Employee Relations |
Jan 2002 |
| Performance Appraisal and Management |
Feb 2002 |
| Salary Administration |
Mar 2002 |
| Selection and Staffing |
Apr 2002 |
eCornell: School of Hotel Administration
| Course |
Date |
Management of Hospitality Human Resources:
Strategic Human Resources Management |
Apr 2002 |
Management of Hospitality Human Resources:
Leadership and Creativity |
Apr 2002 |
Hospitality Sales and Marketing:
Hospitality Sales |
May 2002 |
Hospitality Sales and Marketing:
Marketing Management |
May 2002 |
Hospitality Finance and Operations:
Accounting and Financial Management |
June 2002 |
Hospitality Finance and Operations:
Yield Management |
June 2002 |
New Opportunities
Graph shows:
- "New Opportunities" at center
- "Traditional Classroom" at lower left
- "eCornell" at upper right
- Vertical axis labeled "Location of learner relative to teacher"
- Horizontal axis labeled "Profit Potential"
Innovation in Teaching Grants
- 20 x $40,000 grants
- Professional support team
- Assessment
- Seminars
- "Narrow and deep"
Technology Assistants
- "Broad and shallow"
- 20-30 undergraduates
- 100 hrs training
- Assigned to academic units
- Supervised by Instructional Technology staff
DL Classroom Partnership
- Facilitate standards
- Faciliate sharing
- Matching funds
Faculty Speak...
This slide contained a video of faculty members sharing
their experiences with distributed learning technologies.
If you'd like to know more, please contact Dr. McClure
<polley.mcclure@cornell.edu>
The Road to Distance Learning May Be Closer Than You Think...
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