POLO Anyone? Changing the Rules of the Game

New Search

Print Abstract

E-mail Abstract

Full Text

Save to My Collections

Export Citation

Fujino, L. & Collins, R. (2011). POLO Anyone? Changing the Rules of the Game. In Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (pp. 114-118). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/38684.

• Share:
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Conference Information

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2011
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
October 18, 2011
AACE

More Information on ELEARN
Table of Contents

Authors

Lynn Fujino, Raquel Collins, University of British Columbia Continuing Studies, Canada

Abstract

Imposing a project management (PM) culture on academics is akin to herding cats. Hence when an e-learning task force recommended that the University of British Columbia Continuing Studies (UBC CS) form a centralized e-learning unit, it included determining the cat-herding strategy. The resulting Professional Online Learning Office (POLO) chose to apply a PM approach to fulfill its new mandate by substituting our own version of the cat herding analogy—playing polo without mallets. Since the PM approach is antithetical to the way that courses have been traditionally developed and delivered at UBC CS, we were actually changing the rules of the game. Using a PM approach, you can match expenditures to objectives, track projects, set risk management plans, and develop a framework for accountability and quality assurance practices. To achieve this vision POLO moved the strategy away from a service model to a coach/mentor model. This presentation will outline our strategy, where we are in the process, and some lessons learned.

Also Read

• Designing with and for Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: The Evolution of GeoThentic
• Using e-Learning Technologies in Developing Remeditainment Products for the Treatment of Children with Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
• Post degree online course in Haematopathology and e-Learning: description of an innovative curriculum in e-Learning
• Podcasts in Higher Education: What Students Want, What They Really Need, and How This Might be Supported
• Using RSS in Collaborative Course Development
• Teaching for Success: Technology and Learning Styles in Preservice Teacher Education
• Reducing E-Learning Development Costs Using a Streamlined XML-based Approach
• Using Authentic Situations and Avatars to Build Knowledge in an E-Learning Environment
• Inspiring Learning and Teaching: Using e-tools to Facilitate Change
• Scenario making support in PBL

Tags