Future Collaborative Trends in Online

EducationFred Saba, Ph. D.ADEC Past President Professor EmeritusSan Diego State Universityfsaba@mail.sdsu.edu

Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu

Why Collaborate?

An organization is more productive than the sum of its individual members Brain storming Establishing new and more productive processes and

procedures Managing extant and emerging knowledge

Making tacit knowledge explicit Learning Establishing organizational lineage and successorship

Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu

Collaboration

Myth and reality in higher education Organizational impediments

Retention, Tenure, Promotion (How faculty are rewarded) Grants, Research and Publications 50% Teaching 40% Service 10%

Research & development Complexity requires collaboration

Publications First name is rewarded

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Distance Education Organizations

State and none-profits

Private for profits

Proprietary none-profits

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Proprietary None-Profit

Embryonic organization

Well funded

Tech savvy leader

Following the instructional design model

Highly motivated and dedicated staff

Graduate program

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Technology Applications

Highly distributed organization

Software as a Service (SaaS) Software provider licenses an application to

customers On demand use Provider usually hosts the application Applications are usually web-enabled

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Applications Selected

Desire2Learn (Learning management system) Adobe Connect (web conferencing) TopSchool (students information management

system) NexPrise (document and workflow management

system)