Critical Issues Facing Distance Education in Texas

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Team 1: Cooperative Purchasing

Team 2: Distance Education Collaborative Content/Program Efforts

Team 3: Regulatory and Accrediting Issues

Team 4: Distance Education Course and Program Quality Assurance and Assessment

Team 5: Technology Issues

● Long-Term Goals for Critical Issues Project

● Purpose

● First-Priority Topics: Work Team Organization

● Organization of Critical Issues Project

● Draft Timeline

Long-Term Goals for Critical Issues Project

● Improve coordination and efficiency of distance education efforts of Texas public higher education institutions

● Increase the visibility of distance education efforts of Texas public higher education institutions

● Make the distance education efforts of Texas public higher education institutions appear and function more as a single system from the perspective of students and the general public

● Advise the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on state-level actions that would facilitate distance education

● Tie Critical Issues topics to the Coordinating Board's Closing the Gaps efforts

● Address future funding of higher education's telecommunication resources for distance education (DE)

Purpose

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● To make recommendations to the Coordinating Board that are supported by research data (including cost/benefits and sources of funding, as needed)

First Priority Topics

Teams are examining the following topics. In their initial work phase, the teams will lay the groundwork for a more detailed analysis of the topics.

● Team 1: Cooperative Software Purchasing and Licensing Agreements . Explore what benefits state-level contracts with suppliers could offer from economy of scale, yet give institutions choices/flexibility. TexShare is one model. Other potential platforms include WebCT, Blackboard, Prometheus, plagiarism software. Team would determine what licenses are currently used and how many licenses could be leveraged by state-level negotiation. (Another possible topic for discussion is use of TIF funds for collaborative purchasing arrangements. TIF's Higher Ed Advisory Committee might have comments on the topic.)

● Team 2: Distance Education Collaborative Content/Program Efforts . Explore how distance education partnerships can contribute to statewide higher education needs identified by state leaders. This team would take a strategic view of which issues and priorities could be positively impacted by the combined resources of DE providers in the state. It would communicate its finding with institutions and work to make partnerships happen. An example is expansion of programs to increase the number of certified teachers, like the UT-UH partnership on teacher education.

● Team 3: Regulatory and Accrediting Issues. Seek resolution to accreditation and formula funding issues that hamper program delivery and sharing. Explore how institutions can share degree programs with other institutions in ways that would satisfy SACS. SACS standards on the portion of a program originating from the institution awarding a degree are an issue. Other issues: Distinction between who offers the program (originates) and who delivers it (receives). Is state-level authorization for delivery needed?

● Team 4: Distance Education Course and Program Quality Assurance and Assessment. Suggest changes for the second round of DE Institutional Plans so that continued improvement of DE efforts is achieved and the process retains meaning. Definitions of quality should be addressed. Possible changes include having institutions concentrate on three to five critical issues, carefully evaluate those issues, and use results to improve quality. Based on self- assessment, institutions could identify what they want to do and how they intend to achieving their goals and how they can improve the return on their distance education investment.

● Team 5: Hardware Issues. This team will explore the possibility of hardware related issues, such as sharing of servers and student information systems, bandwidth, reduction of rates for T- 1 lines.

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● Quick pace for work

● Teams will be formed to consider each of the working issues. Teams will be composed of selected DEAC members and other knowledgeable appointees selected by the project co-chairs. Team size will vary as appropriate.

● Each team will prioritize issues that need to be addressed regarding its topic and identify outcomes or deliverables that it intends to accomplish.

● Each team will have a preliminary draft report prepared by December 2002. Final reports will be submitted in Spring 2003.

● Teams will make recommendations to the DEAC. DEAC will examine teams' recommendations and make additional comments that would be helpful to the CB.

Draft timeline

September 26, 2002 Initial report on status of project to DEAC at Fall meeting Teams draft responses. Review preliminary recommendations at September-January January 16, 2002 DEAC meeting Final recommendations presented to DEAC. DEAC vote on March 2003 recommendations and review second round of critical issues topics for investigation

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Critical Issues Facing Distance Education in Texas

Critical Issues Team 1 Cooperative Software Purchasing and Licensing Agreements

Explore what benefits state-level contracts with suppliers could offer from economy of scale, yet give institutions choices/flexibility. TexShare is one model. Other potential platforms include WebCT, Blackboard, Prometheus, plagiarism software. Team would determine what licenses are currently used and how many licenses could be leveraged by state-level negotiation. (Another possible topic for discussion is use of TIF funds for collaborative purchasing arrangements. The TIF's Higher Ed Advisory Committee might have comments on the topic.)

Members

Call Notes 11-01-02

Software Survey

Survey Results

Responses Received

Cooperative Purchasing White Paper

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Critical Issues Facing Distance Education in Texas

Critical Issues Team 2 Distance Education Collaborative Content/Program Efforts.

Explore how distance education partnerships can contribute to statewide higher education needs identified by state leaders. This team would take a strategic view of which issues and priorities could be positively impacted by the combined resources of DE providers in the state. It would communicate its finding with institutions and work to make partnerships happen. An example is expansion of programs to increase the number of certified teachers, like the UT-UH partnership on teacher education.

Survey Summary

Team 2 White Paper

Summary of Collaborative Projects

Team 2 Survey Results

Team 2 Collaborations Table

Members

Call Notes, 11-22-02

Survey Cover Letter

Survey

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Critical Issues Facing Distance Education in Texas

Critical Issues Team 3 Regulatory and Accrediting Issues

Seek resolution to accreditation and formula funding issues that hamper program delivery and sharing. Explore how institutions can share degree programs with other institutions in ways that would satisfy SACS. SACS standards on the portion of a program originating from the institution awarding a degree are an issue. Other issues: Distinction between who offers the program (originates) and who delivers it (receives). Is state-level authorization for delivery needed?

Members

Call Notes, 10-21-02

Team 3 Draft Paper

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Critical Issues Facing Distance Education in Texas

Critical Issues Team 4 Distance Education Course and Program Quality Assurance and Assessment

Suggest changes for the second round of DE Institutional Plans so that continued improvement of DE efforts is achieved and the process retains meaning. Definitions of quality should be addressed. Possible changes include having institutions concentrate on three to five critical issues, carefully evaluate those issues, and use results to improve quality. Based on self-assessment, institutions could identify what they want to do and how they intend to achieving their goals and how they can improve the return on their distance education investment.

Members

Initial Ideas

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Critical Issues Facing Distance Education in Texas

Critical Issues Team 5 Hardware Issues

This team will explore the possibility of hardware related issues, such as sharing of servers and student information systems, bandwidth, reduction of rates for T-1 lines.

Members

Team 5 Technology Issues Paper

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Critical Issues Facing Distance Education in Texas

Critical Issues Team 1 Cooperative Software Purchasing and Licensing Agreements

Mickey Slimp, Team Leader Dean, Learning Resources Tyler Junior College P. O. Box 9020 Tyler, Texas 75711 PHONE: 903-510-2591 FAX: EMAIL: [email protected]

Ron Brey Associate Vice President Instructional Resources & Technology Austin Community College 5930 Middle Fiskville Rd., Suite 604 Austin, TX 78752 PHONE: 512-223-7795 FAX: 512-223-7797 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Michael Anderson Technology and Corporate Development Manager UT System UT Tele Campus, 2nd Floor - MC P4700 210 West Sixth Street Austin, Texas 78701 PHONE: 512-499-4207 FAX: 512 499-4715 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Marg Knox Director, MSE, ITS User Services The University of Texas at Austin Computation Center Campus Mail Code G2700

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Austin, Texas 78712 PHONE: 512-478-6818 FAX: 512-475-9282 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Dr. Betty Roberts Associate Vice President Technical Support Services University of Houston System 4800 Calhoun Road Houston, Texas 77204 PHONE: 713-743-1707 FAX: 713-743-1701 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Sue Beebe TexShare Coordinator Texas State Library and Archives Commission Library Resource Sharing Division PO Box 12927 Austin, TX 78711-2927 PHONE: (512) 463-0188 FAX: (512) 936-2306 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Marilyn Johnson Automation Consultant Texas State Library 1201 Brazos Austin, Texas 78701 PHONE: 512-463-6624 FAX: 512-463-8800 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Rey Garcia Executive Director Texas Association of Community Colleges 1101 Trinity, Suite 200 Austin, Texas 78701 PHONE: 512-476-2572 FAX: 512-476-0262 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Pierce E. Cantrell, Jr. Associate Provost for Information Technology Texas A&M University

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MAIL STOP 1365 College Station, Texas 77843 PHONE: 979-845-2072 FAX: E-MAIL: [email protected]

Maurice Leatherbury Senior Director, Academic Computing & Assistant to Associate Vice President for Computing and Communication Services University of North Texas Denton, TX PHONE: (940) 565-3854 FAX: E-MAIL: [email protected]

Beverly S. Giltner Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Dallas Baptist University 3000 Mountain Creek Parkway Dallas, TX 75211 PHONE: 214-333-5307 FAX: 214-333-5333 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Sheri Snider Director, Technology Support MS2042 Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409 Phone: 806-742-1650 Fax: 806-742-1755 E-Mail: [email protected]

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THECB Distance Education Advisory Committee

Critical Issues Team 1 Cooperative Software Purchasing and Licensing Agreements

November 1, 2002

Minutes

Participants:

Mickey Slimp, Tyler Junior College Ron Brey, Austin Community College Betty Roberts, University of Houston System Roger , Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Janet Beinke, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Maurice Leatherbury, University of North Texas

Ron Brey: Manages the distance and technology support programs for Austin Community College

Needs: Colleges could save money through software licensing, particularly with management systems. Access to joint hardware could be of great benefit. Distributed access to resources would be worthwhile.

Note: Committee should deal with needs prior to any focus on funding strategies.

Betty Roberts

Established a volume buying process at the University of Houston as a Technical Support Administrator. Distance education support has been at the level of licensing and managing software.

Needs: Still determining needs beyond WebCT. Magnitude of current enterprise system applications could make software and server support in a cooperative system valuable. In addition to their needs for Course Management System software, Videoconference system software is vital.

Note: A number of software companies have offered standard purchase options for state consortia.

Roger

Working at the Coordinating Board, his primary support will be at the evaluation end of the process.

Needs: Setting up a survey of the college software needs across the state should be the first priority.

Janet Beinke

Serves as the distance education support person and liaison for the Coordinating Board’s Distance Education Advisory Committee.

Note: the original concept for the committee was 'cooperative purchasing' without a differentiation of hardware and software.

Susan Beebe

New with TexShare, coming recently from Arizona.

Note: TexShare provides a model for the cooperative sharing of servers.

Maurice Leatherbury

Department runs the WebCT server and acquires the hardware and software for the University of North Texas. He also works with the systems that are running the scheduling software for the University’s TIF-funded initiative providing course management software for the Universities.

Needs: Polled his local group to come up with several categories of software. Including other categories identified by our task force, they include

1. Course Management systems (WebCT, Blackboard, etc.) 2. Streaming Media server software (Real, Apple, Microsoft, etc.) 3. Testing software (QuestionMark, etc.) 4. Real Time Collaboration Software (HorizonLive, Tegrity, etc.) 5. MultiMedia Development Software (Adobe, Macromedia, etc.) 6. Course Design/Instructional Design Software (MyCourse, etc.) 7. Scheduling Software for videoconference rooms, classrooms, etc. (the Testing Collaborative software, for example) 8. Content Data Bases (library databases, that is) 9. Security/disk recovery (McAfee VirusScan, Inasoft Rescue, etc.) 10. Online Student Support (Tutoring, Help Desk, Advisement)

Assignments

Mickey and Roger will draft online survey instrument and send it to the committee members for review. Responses should have been completed by early the next week, allowing the form to immediately be distributed to the colleges.

Janet will facilitate the distribution of the survey and make the contacts from the Coordinating Board to assure its completion.

Data available by November 13th will be distributed to the committee for review.

Next Session

The next meeting will be at 10 am Central Time using the same phonebridge (Thanks to Dallas County!!)

To get in, dial 972-669-6644. You will need to enter the ID number 111502# and the Password 6644# .

Software Survey

The Distance Education Advisory Committee of the Coordinating Board is exploring the possibilities for the statewide cooperative purchasing of common distance learning and distributed learning software applications for Texas colleges and universities. This survey will help identify and prioritize categories of software for negotiating volume discounts.

Please take a few minutes to complete the following survey information.

Contact information for individual completing the survey:

First Name

Last Name

Title

Organization

Work Phone

E-mail

Part One

If there were a statewide group purchasing process for distance learning software, how important would it be for your institution that the following software packages be included. 1 (lowest need) to 5 (highest need):

Ranking Software Applications (1-lowest to 5-highest) 1 2 3 4 5 1. Course Management systems (WebCT, Blackboard, etc.) 2. Streaming Media server software (Real, Apple, Microsoft,

etc.)

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3. Testing software (QuestionMark, etc.)

4. Real Time Collaboration Software (HorizonLive, Tegrity, etc.)

5. MultiMedia Development Software (Adobe, Macromedia, etc.) 6. Course Design/Instructional Design Software (MyCourse,

etc.) 7. Scheduling Software for videoconference rooms, classrooms, etc. (the Testing Collaborative software, for example) 8. Library/Research Databases 9. Security /disk recovery (McAfee VirusScan, Inasoft Rescue,

etc.) 10. Online Student Support (Tutoring, Help Desk, Advisement)

11. Other (please specify) Part Two

FY02 Costs FY03 Costs Maintenance: Maintenance: $ $ License: $ License: $

per unit per unit per seat per seat flat fee flat fee Are these expenditures (please check) or or server based server based ? ?

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Maintenance: Maintenance: $ $ License: $ License: $

per unit per unit per seat per seat flat fee flat fee Are these expenditures (please check) or or server based server based ? ? Maintenance: Maintenance: $ $ License: $ License: $

per unit per unit per seat per seat flat fee flat fee Are these expenditures (please check) or or server based server based ? ?

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Maintenance: Maintenance: $ $ License: $ License: $

per unit per unit per seat per seat flat fee flat fee Are these expenditures (please check) or or server based server based ? ? Maintenance: Maintenance: $ $ License: $ License: $

per unit per unit per seat per seat flat fee flat fee Are these expenditures (please check) or or server based server based ? ?

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Maintenance: Maintenance: $ $ License: $ License: $

per unit per unit per seat per seat flat fee flat fee Are these expenditures (please check) or or server based server based ? ? Maintenance: Maintenance: $ $ License: $ License: $

per unit per unit per seat per seat flat fee flat fee Are these expenditures (please check) or or server based server based ? ?

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2. Identify other software packages and online services you would like to use with your distance education program.

Comments:

THECB DEAC Critical Issues Task Force 1, Cooperative Purchases Revised: November 05, 2002

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Critical Issues Facing Distance Education in Texas

Part One

Number of rankings Software Applications (1-lowest to 5-highest) 1 2 3 4 5 1. Course Management systems (WebCT, Blackboard, 4 1 6 10 73 etc.) 2. Streaming Media server software (Real, Apple, 5 5 22 26 36 Microsoft, etc.) 3. Testing software (QuestionMark, etc.) 9 5 20 26 34 4. Real Time Collaboration Software (HorizonLive, 7 13 28 24 22 Tegrity, etc.) 5. MultiMedia Development Software (Adobe, 2 2 11 32 47 Macromedia, etc.) 6. Course Design/Instructional Design Software 9 18 24 28 15 (MyCourse, etc.) 7. Scheduling Software for videoconference rooms, classrooms, etc. (the Testing Collaborative software, 17 15 19 19 24 for example) 8. Library/Research Databases 6 1 8 18 61 9. Security /disk recovery (McAfee VirusScan, Inasoft 9 5 14 19 47 Rescue, etc.) 10. Online Student Support (Tutoring, Help Desk, 9 6 18 23 38 Advisement) Other Number of listings Average ranking Any Training Software (e.g. CD or DVD based) 1 5

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Assessment 1 4 H.323/320 btw institutions and TEA RSCs and/or 1 5 schools Microsoft OpenCampus Agreement 1 5 network management 1 5 Student Information System; 1 5 Web conferencing--Learnlinc, Centra Symposium 1 5

Part Two

Number of Software FY02 total FY03 total listings Maintenance License Maintenance License 14 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Academic Planet ISP 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $7,000.00 Service for Students Academic.com 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $5,000.00 ADA compliance 1 $10,000.00 $0.00 $11,000.00 $0.00 software/hardware Adobe / Macromedia 1 $0.00 $1,800.00 $0.00 $2,000.00 licenses (total licenses) Adobe Suite products (Acrobat, Photoshop, 17 $1,000.00 $77,156.00 $1,000.00 $35,794.00 etc.) Akiva WebBoard 2 $0.00 $2,695.00 $800.00 $0.00 Ann Arbor Software's 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 ConnectWeb Astra 1 $0.00 $3,500.00 $0.00 $3,500.00 Blackboard 28 $95,700.00 $516,795.00 $106,400.00 $611,895.00

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Blackboard: Collegis Online Blackboard 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $80,000.00 Support Blackboard: Hardware 1 $150,000.00 $0.00 $165,000.00 $0.00 for BB 6 BMC Sentry 1 $0.00 $12,000.00 $0.00 $15,000.00 campus connect 1 $3,000.00 $0.00 $3,000.00 $0.00 Camtasia 3 $0.00 $5,560.00 $0.00 $5,500.00 Centrta 1 $0.00 $5,000.00 $0.00 $5,000.00 Chatterbox 1 $2,000.00 $12,000.00 $2,000.00 $0.00 Collegis Learning 1 $168,000.00 $0.00 $12,000.00 $0.00 Technology Daedalus 5.3.3 1 $0.00 $10,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 Decision Academic 1 $25,000.00 $60,000.00 $25,000.00 $50,000.00 Graphics (SIS) eCollege Course 1 $10,000.00 $90.00 $10,000.00 $95.00 Management System Educator from 1 $40,000.00 $0.00 $40,000.00 $0.00 Ucompass.com Eduprise 3rd Party Help 1 $30,000.00 $0.00 $35,000.00 $0.00 Desk] Electronic Work Bench 1 $0.00 $3,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 Multisimm 2001 Embanet 2 $0.00 $85,100.00 $0.00 $107,000.00 EZProxy 3 $0.00 $500.00 $0.00 $0.00 HorizonLive 2 $0.00 $20,000.00 $0.00 $20,000.00 Impatica 1 $0.00 $5,000.00 $0.00 $5,000.00 In house developed 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 product Jasc Paint Shop Pro 1 $0.00 $399.00 $0.00 $0.00 Jenzabar 2 $154,000.00 $0.00 $162,000.00 $12,000.00 Lectora 1 $0.00 $2,000.00 $0.00 $4,000.00 Library Software 1 $0.00 $150.00 $0.00 $200.00

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Macromedia (ColdFusion, 17 $2,163.00 $190,350.00 $15,500.00 $101,968.00 Dreamweaver, Flash) Magic Help Desk 2 $12,364.00 $34,859.00 $15,724.00 $29,361.00 MagicSoft VC Wizard v7. 2 $7,478.00 $0.00 $7,500.00 $0.00 x Mail Marshall 1 $4,000.00 $13,000.00 $4,000.00 $0.00 MathCAD 1 $0.00 $2,500.00 $0.00 $0.00 McAfee VirusScan 4 $500.00 $63,145.00 $500.00 $63,145.00 Microsoft Office Suite 10 $11,000.00 $448,861.00 $12,000.00 $448,901.00 including Front Page NAI Magic 1 $4,000.00 $39,225.00 $2,775.00 $12,200.00 Network Appliance Streaming Media 1 $0.00 $10,000.00 $0.00 $10,000.00 Content Director and Content Reporter NiceNet 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Norton AntiVirus 3 $0.00 $9,875.00 $0.00 $10,200.00 Not currently using any 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Novus Edu Web 1 $0.00 $14,000.00 $2,500.00 $0.00 Omnipage Pro 1 $1,000.00 $0.00 $1,000.00 $0.00 Oracle 1 $0.00 $20,000.00 $3,500.00 $0.00 Other Design software/ 1 $6,000.00 $0.00 $6,700.00 $0.00 hardware Polycom Accord Video 1 $25,000.00 $0.00 $25,000.00 $0.00 Bridge Polycom Streamstation 1 $4,500.00 $0.00 $4,500.00 $0.00 QuestionMark 4 $0.00 $0.00 $6,000.00 $40,000.00 RealNetworks products 19 $8,601.00 $51,657.00 $10,420.00 $35,420.00 (Real, Helix) RedHat Linux 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Remedy call tracking 1 $0.00 $20,000.00 $0.00 $20,000.00 Respondus (versions 12 $2,359.00 $18,079.00 $2,359.00 $18,579.00 1.5-3.0 and Lite)

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Scheduling software: Ad 1 $5,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Astra Scheduling Software: 1 $1,600.00 $7,000.00 $1,600.00 $7,000.00 IQSession scheduling software: 1 $0.00 $2,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 Redesoft Science Online 1 $2,500.00 $0.00 $2,500.00 $0.00 SCT Connect 1 $3,600.00 $22,000.00 $3,600.00 $0.00 Smarthinking 4 $0.00 $108,000.00 $0.00 $110,000.00 SPSS 2 $28,800.00 $8,031.00 $28,800.00 $31.00 Streaming Video 1 $0.00 $3,000.00 $0.00 $3,000.00 Syphos 1 $6,000.00 $0.00 $6,000.00 $0.00 Tegrity 4 $0.00 $125,279.00 $8,000.00 $17,000.00 test out 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $8,000.00 TexShare/library 10 $250.00 $308,100.00 $250.00 $344,350.00 databases TODD videoconference 1 $0.00 $40,000.00 $4,000.00 $0.00 scheduling UT TeleCampus 1 $29,000.00 $0.00 $44,000.00 $0.00 VCWizard 1 $1,500.00 $20,000.00 $1,500.00 $0.00 Video editing software 1 $12,000.00 $0.00 $12,000.00 $0.00 Video/Streaming 1 $25,000.00 $0.00 $26,000.00 $0.00 Services VideoCall videoconference 1 $78,000.00 $0.00 $80,000.00 $0.00 maintenance Videoconferencing 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Web Filter N2H2 1 $8,000.00 $0.00 $8,000.00 $0.00 WebBoard 1 $0.00 $5,000.00 $0.00 $5,000.00 WebCT 38 $103,000.00 $332,500.00 $118,000.00 $428,500.00 WebCT Vista 3 $80,625.00 $330,500.00 $140,625.00 $410,000.00 WebCT--Mercury 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Messenger Broker Windows 2000 1 $0.00 $5,000.00 $0.00 $6,000.00

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Word Perfect 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Zoom Text 1 $0.00 $550.00 $0.00 $0.00

2. Identify other software packages and online services you would like to use with your distance education program.

Software Number of listings 2 (Live Video) Collaborative Meeting Software 1 3M (Medical Records) 1 Adobe 2 Adobe suite 2 Blackboard Learning System integrated with SCT Banner 1 Campus Pipeline 1 Collaboration: Group / Collaboration Software 1 Collaboration: HorizonLive 3 Collaboration: Real time collaboration software 2 Collaboration: Tegrity 4 digital repository for learning objects 2 eCommerce (hosted) 2 ePortfolio 2 Extended Microsoft campus agreement to students 1 HearMe -- VoIP package application for online voice conferencing 1 Help desk support software - tracking and maintenance 1 Impatica 2 Instructional support: Centralized instructional design support 1 Internet Access and Videoconferencing Services 1 IP Videoconferencing 2 Jenzabar 1 LDAP 1 Macromedia suite 11 Microsoft suite 1

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NetOp 1 Object repository software as necessary creation and support 1 Off-the-shelf programming-related 1 Online collaboration software such as Centra or WebBoard 1 Online library 2 Oracle database system - licenses for multiple sites 1 Oracle Portal system - licenses for multiple sites 1 P2P, Vol P, application sharing 2 Paceware 1 Prodocs 1 Recording/Storage for above video 1 Scansoft Omnipage 1 Scheduling: CEO Scheduler 1 Scheduling: Internet-based scheduling software for testing centers 1 Streaming Media 3 Streaming media: Cisco streaming video software 1 Student support 1 Student support: eCounseling (service) 2 Student support: eMentoring (service) 1 Student support: online counseling 1 Student support: registration and financial services 1 Student support: Smarthinking 1 Student support: technical support 6 Student support: technical support (toll-free telephone) 1 Student support: tutoring 2 TataInteractive 1 Testing: Online testing software 1 Testing: QuestionMark 4 Testing: Respondus 3 Testing: Scantron Partest/Parscore 1 Testing: secure testing services 2 Testing: testing software 1 http://techno/DistanceEd/CriticalIssues/SoftwareSurveyResults2.cfm (7 of 10)12/1/2005 11:17:42 AM THECB > Distance Education > Critical Issues

TexShare/Library Databases 2 uPortal (hosted) 1 Visual Communicator Plus 1 Web portal software 1 Web X 2 WebCT Vista 4

Comments:

We really need this to go through! The fiscal need in supporting DE is increasing every year. Other than ConnectWeb, used by the English and Criminal Justice departments for Internet courses and costing us nothing (they make their money from a student license fee), we have no specific d.e. software costs. Our CIS instructors create their own web pages and pdf files, etc. We can't afford Blackboard or WebCT. Might consider one of them if the price were more reasonable. I do not have price information for the above mentioned software. It is purchased/licensed by the Alamo Community College District for use by all of the colleges. Usha Venkat ([email protected]) or Charles Burmeister ([email protected]) should be able to help you. St. Philip's College would be very interested in a statewide purchase on all the product types mentioned in Part One of this survey. with the advent of learning objects web ct or other softwares and provision of course content to all students whether they are normal on campus students or categorized as distance learning students the software packages contemplatd are becoming standard for all students at a college or university and it is somewhat limiting to consider them just aplicable to " distance" learning students Some of the pricing types (per unit, per seat, etc.)are mixed, so these data should be interpreted with some caution. WebCT is part of VCT grant. We will be renewing with them or going to Blackboard. We are not sure of the cost yet. Real Server is part of a TIF grant. TSTC - Harlingen developed only two online course (FY02) but plans to increase the number of online courses developed and offered in FY03. Streaming media is fine if the students have cable modems. Many of our students, however, have dial-up modems; therefore, streaming media is cumbersome & time consuming for them. Please consider this when setting your priorities. We got the WebCT software this year under an agreement with VCT. We currently do not use any instructional software other than virus protection and Adobe products for DL purposes.

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As a branch campus of A&M Univ. we have access to hundreds of thousands of dollars of other databases beyond what we purchase unique to TAMUG. I think that distributed learning software applications better describes this area than distance learning. We have continuim of support that technology can contribute to facilitating learning of from zero to sixty. Zero might be using WebCT to distribute syllubus to a traditional lecture course and sixty might be asyncronous, distance classes (distance learning) with all fully supported/ delivered using technology. Because of our highly specialized curriulum, UT Southwestern will not develop comprehensive degree programs or standalone courses. Any Web developed courses will be hosted by the UT Telecampus using support products adapted by this organization. I have just recently assumed this position as of November 4 on a part-time basis and am have just barely scratched the surface of what we have and what we need. I am sorry to not be of much help. Our WebCT license is made available to us at this time at no charge through the VCT. That could change in August 2003. Distributed learning software would be a good designation as much of the useage is for hybrid courses (face2face with on-line) rather than pure DE. All of the above do not include salaries or purchase prices for servers. This survey is for the LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications which is the centralized entity for long- distance education at teh DCCCD. We are early in implementing distance education programs. First submission 12/2/2002 Second submission 12/6/2002 WebCT is priced above as single largest DE-related software purchase. Across campus exist: multiple departmental streaming servers, many multiple copies of mulimedia and course development software, etc. This survey was completed by Dr. Charlotte Wolf, Director of Instructional Technologies at San Antonio College at the request of Helen Torres, Director of Distance Education at SAC. Please forward survey results to Helen Torres at htorres @accd.edu and Dr. Charlotte Wolf at [email protected]. Any group purchasing discounts and service discounts will be greatly appreciated. Interested in Tegrity. WE are unable to provide costs due to licensing confidentality agreements. Baylor College of Medicine does not provide "distance education" as such, but does provide course resources to students 24x7 and to clinical students at remote locations or on away rotations. We are currently in the process of developing a distance education program. Please call Richard Coen at 903-589-4097 regarding specific details or [email protected]. We would appreciate the opportunity to participate in this project. Thank you. ACCD District office purchases these software licenses. http://techno/DistanceEd/CriticalIssues/SoftwareSurveyResults2.cfm (9 of 10)12/1/2005 11:17:42 AM THECB > Distance Education > Critical Issues

Note: Smarthinking is in a pilot program phase. The price would go up significantly if we were to contract with them. This is definitely a product that we could use a group discount on. It is expensive. We have other programs that we use frequently (Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Flash, Final Cut Pro), but we do not purchase these products in bulk--usually one or two copies per campus. I would love a discount on some of these items, but I didn't feel that we bought enough to warrant listing them in the above columns. The ones I listed are our big-ticket or volume items. Presently, the Distance Learning Lab is just coming on line and course objectives are currently being defined. Good luck! St Edward's offers you any thing we can do to be helpful in your efforts. All of the software packages we are using are being integrated into our online couse development process tapping the course platforms licensed to the Telecampus, such as V- Campus, Prometheus and Blackboard. These are not licenses we as a campus have had to directly pay for. currently our distance ed courses are delivered by live televideo conferencing. equipment, maintenance and software upgrade costs were not included in the above estimates as they are not used for online courses. we are offering web based courses next semester under the WebCT license for A&M thereby not costing the School a specific charge. The HSC will have Blackboard which we may use in subsequent semesters.

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Critical Issues Facing Distance Education in Texas

Responses received

94 responses have been received, from the following institutions: Abilene Christian University Alvin Community College Angelo State University Austin Community College Baylor College of Medicine Blinn College Central Texas College Cisco Junior College Concordia University at Austin Dallas Baptist University Del Mar College Grayson County College Hardin-Simmons University Hill College Houston Community College System Howard Payne University Huston-Tillotson College Kilgore College Kingwood College Lamar State College - Orange Lamar University Laredo Community College LeCroy Center - Dallas Community Colleges Lee College

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LeTourneau University Lon Morris College Lon Morris College McLennan C.C. McMurry University Midland College Midwestern State University North Harris Montgomery Community College District Odessa College Our Lady of the Lake University Palo Alto College Panola College Prairie View A&M University Ranger College Sam Houston State University San Antonio College San Jacinto College District Schreiner University South Texas Community College Southern Methodist University Southwest Texas Junior College Southwest Texas State University Southwestern Adventist University St. Edward's University St. Philip's College Stephen F. Austin State University Sul Ross State University TAMUSHSC School of Rural Public Health Tarleton State University Tarrant County College Temple College Texarkana College http://techno/DistanceEd/CriticalIssues/Responses.cfm (2 of 4)12/1/2005 11:17:42 AM THECB > Distance Education > Critical Issues

Texas A&M Univ at Galveston Texas A&M University - College Station Texas A&M University-Commerce Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Texas A&M University-Texarkana Texas Cooperative Extension Texas Lutheran University Texas Southern University Texas Southern University Texas State Technical College Texas State Technical College - Harlingen Texas State Technical College - West Texas Texas Tech Texas Transportation Institute The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College The University of Texas at Tyler The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Trinity University Tyler Junior College University of Dallas University of Houston University of Houston Downtown University of Houston-Clear Lake University of North Texas University of Texas at Arlington University of Texas-Pan American UT Permian Basin UT System TeleCampus utd UTEP/University of Texas at El Paso UTexas Southwestern Medical Center http://techno/DistanceEd/CriticalIssues/Responses.cfm (3 of 4)12/1/2005 11:17:42 AM THECB > Distance Education > Critical Issues

UTMB Vernon College West Texas A&M University Western Texas College Wharton County Junior College

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Critical Issues Team 1 Cooperative Software Purchasing and Licensing Agreements

The goal of Team 1 was to determine the best targets for the cooperative acquisition of distance learning software.

Background

During 1999, major distance learning software acquisitions covering all public higher education institutions in the state were made possible through Discovery Grants from the Telecommunication Infrastructure Fund (TIF). A grant of $500,000 made a three-year license for three software packages available to all 2-year institutions. The packages included the course management tool, WebCT, and two online testing packages, QuestionMark Perception and EdTech Tools. A similar grant for $800,000 for senior institutions allowed all public universities to choose one of three packages: the course management tools WebCT or Blackboard or the testing software QuestionMark Perception. The community college licenses expire during 2003 and the university licenses by 2004. As a result of the license distribution, nearly all of the colleges and universities in the state have initiated or expanded their online distance programs.

In anticipation of the end of the current licenses and the immediate condition of state finances, a number of schools have expressed interest in joining together to acquire reduced costs for the software licenses renewal and to potentially pursue external funding sources for portions or all of the acquisitions.

Another joint software and database acquisition, TexShare, is a collection of electronic library resources. TexShare is managed by the Texas State Library and is also funded with TIF monies. TexShare is the most widely used shared program in Texas and is considered one of the greatest successes of the TIF program. A majority of schools offering distance courses have relied upon TexShare as the crux of their library support for students and for maintaining the requirements for regional accreditation. TexShare has also been considered as a model for a similar joint acquisition of software covering other aspects of distance learning.

Although the legislation enabling the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund runs through 2005, new grant initiatives have been halted as a result of the state’s current financial environment. TexShare is among the programs that could be lost as a result of the funding hold.

Committee Objectives

Initial objectives determined by the Critical Issues Committee included:

1. The identification and categorization of distance learning software in use in the state of Texas.

2. Prioritization of the need by colleges for the joint acquisitions of distance learning software, based upon current and anticipated usage and expenditure.

3. Encouragement of the legislature to continue the programs of the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund and to maintain the allocation for technology expenditures, including TexShare.

Participants

Participants on the planning team included:

Team Leader: Mickey Slimp Marilyn Johnson Tyler Junior College Texas State Library

Ron Brey Pierce E. Cantrell, Jr. Austin Community College Texas A&M University

Michael Anderson Maurice Leatherbury UT System University of North Texas

Dr. Betty Roberts Beverly S. Giltner University of Houston System Dallas Baptist University

Susan Beebe Sheri Snider TexShare Texas Tech University

Methodology

Team members compared acquisitions by the systems and campuses to determine the major categories of software. Final categories named included:

1. Course Management systems (WebCT, Blackboard, etc.) 2. Streaming Media server software (Real, Apple, Microsoft, etc.) 3. Testing software (QuestionMark, etc.) 4. Real Time Collaboration Software (HorizonLive, Tegrity, etc.) 5. MultiMedia Development Software (Adobe, Macromedia, etc.) 6. Course Design/Instructional Design Software (MyCourse, etc.) 7. Scheduling Software for videoconference rooms, classrooms, etc. (the Testing Collaborative software, for example) 8. Library/Research Databases 9. Security /disk recovery (McAfee VirusScan, Inasoft Rescue, etc.) 10. Online Student Support (Tutoring, Help Desk, Advisement)

The categories were used to construct an online survey to determine the level of usage by the colleges for each and the approximate expenditure involved. Ninety-two institutions (two-year and four-year, both public and private) responded.

Findings

Course management tools ranked as the most critical category for consideration by the participants. Multimedia development software ranked second and Library/Research Databases third. The complete ranking was:

1. Course Management systems (WebCT, Blackboard, etc.) 2. MultiMedia Development Software (Adobe, Macromedia, etc.) 3. Library/Research Databases 4. Security /disk recovery (McAfee VirusScan, Inasoft Rescue, etc.) 5. Streaming Media server software (Real, Apple, Microsoft, etc.) 6. Online Student Support (Tutoring, Help Desk, Advisement) 7. Testing software (QuestionMark, etc.) 8. Real Time Collaboration Software (HorizonLive, Tegrity, etc.) 9. Course Design/Instructional Design Software (MyCourse, etc.) 10. Scheduling Software for videoconference rooms, classrooms, etc. (the Testing Collaborative software, for example)

The complete findings as of February 1, 2003, are attached as an appendix. The most current results with estimated expenditures are accessible online at: http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/DistanceEd/CriticalIssues/team1.cfm

APPENDIX

Critical Issues Facing Distance Education in Texas

Part One

Number of rankings Software Applications (1-lowest to 5-highest) 1 2 3 4 5 1. Course Management systems (WebCT, 4 1 6 10 73 Blackboard, etc.) 2. Streaming Media server software (Real, Apple, 5 5 22 26 36 Microsoft, etc.) 3. Testing software (QuestionMark, etc.) 9 5 20 26 34 4. Real Time Collaboration Software 7 13 28 24 22 (HorizonLive, Tegrity, etc.) 5. MultiMedia Development Software (Adobe, 2 2 11 32 47 Macromedia, etc.) 6. Course Design/Instructional Design Software 9 18 24 28 15 (MyCourse, etc.) 7. Scheduling Software for videoconference rooms, classrooms, etc. (the Testing Collaborative 17 15 19 19 24 software, for example) 8. Library/Research Databases 6 1 8 18 61 9. Security /disk recovery (McAfee VirusScan, 9 5 14 19 47 Inasoft Rescue, etc.) 10. Online Student Support (Tutoring, Help Desk, 9 6 18 23 38 Advisement) Number of Average Other listings ranking Any Training Software (e.g. CD or DVD based) 1 5 Assessment 1 4 H.323/320 btw institutions and TEA RSCs and/or 1 5 schools Microsoft OpenCampus Agreement 1 5 network management 1 5 Student Information System; 1 5 Web conferencing--Learnlinc, Centra Symposium 1 5

Part Two

1. Identify the major software packages and online services you currently use with your distance education program. In the additional columns, identify your expenditures for the software this academic year (2002) and your estimated expenditures next year (2003) rounded to the nearest dollar. Number Software of FY02 total FY03 total listings Maintenance License Maintenance License 14 $0.00$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Academic Planet ISP 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $7,000.00 Service for Students Academic.com 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $5,000.00 ADA compliance 1 $10,000.00 $0.00 $11,000.00 $0.00 software/hardware Adobe / Macromedia 1 $0.00 $1,800.00 $0.00 $2,000.00 licenses (total licenses) Adobe Suite products (Acrobat, Photoshop, 17 $1,000.00 $77,156.00 $1,000.00 $35,794.00 etc.) Akiva WebBoard 2 $0.00 $2,695.00 $800.00 $0.00 Ann Arbor Software's 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 ConnectWeb Astra 1 $0.00 $3,500.00 $0.00 $3,500.00 Blackboard 28 $95,700.00$516,795.00 $106,400.00 $611,895.00 Blackboard: Collegis 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $80,000.00 Online Blackboard Support Blackboard: Hardware 1 $150,000.00 $0.00 $165,000.00 $0.00 for BB 6 BMC Sentry 1 $0.00 $12,000.00 $0.00 $15,000.00 campus connect 1 $3,000.00 $0.00 $3,000.00 $0.00 Camtasia 3 $0.00 $5,560.00 $0.00 $5,500.00 Centrta 1 $0.00 $5,000.00 $0.00 $5,000.00 Chatterbox 1 $2,000.00 $12,000.00 $2,000.00 $0.00 Collegis Learning 1 $168,000.00 $0.00 $12,000.00 $0.00 Technology Daedalus 5.3.3 1 $0.00 $10,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 Decision Academic 1 $25,000.00 $60,000.00 $25,000.00 $50,000.00 Graphics (SIS) eCollege Course 1 $10,000.00 $90.00 $10,000.00 $95.00 Management System Educator from 1 $40,000.00 $0.00 $40,000.00 $0.00 Ucompass.com Eduprise 3rd Party Help 1 $30,000.00 $0.00 $35,000.00 $0.00 Desk] Electronic Work Bench 1 $0.00 $3,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 Multisimm 2001 Embanet 2 $0.00 $85,100.00 $0.00 $107,000.00 EZProxy 3 $0.00 $500.00 $0.00 $0.00 HorizonLive 2 $0.00 $20,000.00 $0.00 $20,000.00 Impatica 1 $0.00 $5,000.00 $0.00 $5,000.00 In house developed 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 product Jasc Paint Shop Pro 1 $0.00 $399.00 $0.00 $0.00 Jenzabar 2 $154,000.00 $0.00 $162,000.00 $12,000.00 Lectora 1 $0.00 $2,000.00 $0.00 $4,000.00 Library Software 1 $0.00 $150.00 $0.00 $200.00 Macromedia (ColdFusion, 17 $2,163.00 $190,350.00 $15,500.00 $101,968.00 Dreamweaver, Flash) Magic Help Desk 2 $12,364.00 $34,859.00 $15,724.00 $29,361.00 MagicSoft VC Wizard 2 $7,478.00 $0.00 $7,500.00 $0.00 v7.x Mail Marshall 1 $4,000.00 $13,000.00 $4,000.00 $0.00 MathCAD 1 $0.00 $2,500.00 $0.00 $0.00 McAfee VirusScan 4 $500.00 $63,145.00 $500.00 $63,145.00 Microsoft Office Suite 10 $11,000.00 $448,861.00 $12,000.00 $448,901.00 including Front Page NAI Magic 1 $4,000.00 $39,225.00 $2,775.00 $12,200.00 Network Appliance Streaming Media 1 $0.00 $10,000.00 $0.00 $10,000.00 Content Director and Content Reporter NiceNet 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Norton AntiVirus 3 $0.00 $9,875.00 $0.00 $10,200.00 Not currently using any 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Novus Edu Web 1 $0.00 $14,000.00 $2,500.00 $0.00 Omnipage Pro 1 $1,000.00 $0.00 $1,000.00 $0.00 Oracle 1 $0.00 $20,000.00 $3,500.00 $0.00 Other Design 1 $6,000.00 $0.00 $6,700.00 $0.00 software/hardware Polycom Accord Video 1 $25,000.00 $0.00 $25,000.00 $0.00 Bridge Polycom Streamstation 1 $4,500.00 $0.00 $4,500.00 $0.00 QuestionMark 4 $0.00 $0.00 $6,000.00 $40,000.00 RealNetworks products 19 $8,601.00 $51,657.00 $10,420.00 $35,420.00 (Real, Helix) RedHat Linux 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Remedy call tracking 1 $0.00 $20,000.00 $0.00 $20,000.00 Respondus (versions 12 $2,359.00 $18,079.00 $2,359.00 $18,579.00 1.5-3.0 and Lite) Scheduling software: 1 $5,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Ad Astra Scheduling Software: 1 $1,600.00 $7,000.00 $1,600.00 $7,000.00 IQSession scheduling software: 1 $0.00 $2,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 Redesoft Science Online 1 $2,500.00 $0.00 $2,500.00 $0.00 SCT Connect 1 $3,600.00 $22,000.00 $3,600.00 $0.00 Smarthinking 4 $0.00 $108,000.00 $0.00 $110,000.00 SPSS 2 $28,800.00$8,031.00 $28,800.00 $31.00 Streaming Video 1 $0.00 $3,000.00 $0.00 $3,000.00 Syphos 1 $6,000.00 $0.00 $6,000.00 $0.00 Tegrity 4 $0.00$125,279.00 $8,000.00 $17,000.00 test out 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $8,000.00 TexShare/library 10 $250.00 $308,100.00 $250.00 $344,350.00 databases TODD videoconference 1 $0.00 $40,000.00 $4,000.00 $0.00 scheduling UT TeleCampus 1 $29,000.00 $0.00 $44,000.00 $0.00 VCWizard 1 $1,500.00$20,000.00 $1,500.00 $0.00 Video editing software 1 $12,000.00 $0.00 $12,000.00 $0.00 Video/Streaming 1 $25,000.00 $0.00 $26,000.00 $0.00 Services VideoCall videoconference 1 $78,000.00 $0.00 $80,000.00 $0.00 maintenance Videoconferencing 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Web Filter N2H2 1 $8,000.00 $0.00 $8,000.00 $0.00 WebBoard 1 $0.00 $5,000.00 $0.00 $5,000.00 WebCT 38 $103,000.00 $332,500.00 $118,000.00 $428,500.00 WebCT Vista 3 $80,625.00 $330,500.00 $140,625.00 $410,000.00 WebCT--Mercury 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Messenger Broker Windows 2000 1 $0.00 $5,000.00 $0.00 $6,000.00 Word Perfect 1 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Zoom Text 1 $0.00 $550.00 $0.00 $0.00 2. Identify other software packages and online services you would like to use with your distance education program. Software Number of listings 2 (Live Video) Collaborative Meeting Software 1 3M (Medical Records) 1 Adobe 2 Adobe suite 2 Blackboard Learning System integrated with SCT Banner 1 Campus Pipeline 1 Collaboration: Group / Collaboration Software 1 Collaboration: HorizonLive 3 Collaboration: Real time collaboration software 2 Collaboration: Tegrity 4 digital repository for learning objects 2 eCommerce (hosted) 2 ePortfolio 2 Extended Microsoft campus agreement to students 1 HearMe -- VoIP package application for online voice conferencing 1 Help desk support software - tracking and maintenance 1 Impatica 2 Instructional support: Centralized instructional design support 1 Internet Access and Videoconferencing Services 1 IP Videoconferencing 2 Jenzabar 1 LDAP 1 Macromedia suite 11 Microsoft suite 1 NetOp 1 Object repository software as necessary creation and support 1 Off-the-shelf programming-related 1 Online collaboration software such as Centra or WebBoard 1 Online library 2 Oracle database system - licenses for multiple sites 1 Oracle Portal system - licenses for multiple sites 1 P2P, Vol P, application sharing 2 Paceware 1 Prodocs 1 Recording/Storage for above video 1 Scansoft Omnipage 1 Scheduling: CEO Scheduler 1 Scheduling: Internet-based scheduling software for testing centers 1 Streaming Media 3 Streaming media: Cisco streaming video software 1 Student support 1 Student support: eCounseling (service) 2 Student support: eMentoring (service) 1 Student support: online counseling 1 Student support: registration and financial services 1 Student support: Smarthinking 1 Student support: technical support 6 Student support: technical support (toll-free telephone) 1 Student support: tutoring 2 TataInteractive 1 Testing: Online testing software 1 Testing: QuestionMark 4 Testing: Respondus 3 Testing: Scantron Partest/Parscore 1 Testing: secure testing services 2 Testing: testing software 1 TexShare/Library Databases 2 uPortal (hosted) 1 Visual Communicator Plus 1 Web portal software 1 Web X 2 WebCT Vista 4 Comments: We really need this to go through! The fiscal need in supporting DE is increasing every year. Other than ConnectWeb, used by the English and Criminal Justice departments for Internet courses and costing us nothing (they make their money from a student license fee), we have no specific d.e. software costs. Our CIS instructors create their own web pages and pdf files, etc. We can't afford Blackboard or WebCT. Might consider one of them if the price were more reasonable. I do not have price information for the above mentioned software. It is purchased/licensed by the Alamo Community College District for use by all of the colleges. Usha Venkat ([email protected]) or Charles Burmeister ([email protected]) should be able to help you. St. Philip's College would be very interested in a statewide purchase on all the product types mentioned in Part One of this survey. with the advent of learning objects web ct or other softwares and provision of course content to all students whether they are normal on campus students or categorized as distance learning students the software packages contemplatd are becoming standard for all students at a college or university and it is somewhat limiting to consider them just aplicable to " distance" learning students Some of the pricing types (per unit, per seat, etc.)are mixed, so these data should be interpreted with some caution. WebCT is part of VCT grant. We will be renewing with them or going to Blackboard. We are not sure of the cost yet. Real Server is part of a TIF grant. TSTC - Harlingen developed only two online course (FY02) but plans to increase the number of online courses developed and offered in FY03. Streaming media is fine if the students have cable modems. Many of our students, however, have dial-up modems; therefore, streaming media is cumbersome & time consuming for them. Please consider this when setting your priorities. We got the WebCT software this year under an agreement with VCT. We currently do not use any instructional software other than virus protection and Adobe products for DL purposes. As a branch campus of A&M Univ. we have access to hundreds of thousands of dollars of other databases beyond what we purchase unique to TAMUG. I think that distributed learning software applications better describes this area than distance learning. We have continuim of support that technology can contribute to facilitating learning of from zero to sixty. Zero might be using WebCT to distribute syllubus to a traditional lecture course and sixty might be asyncronous, distance classes (distance learning) with all fully supported/delivered using technology. Because of our highly specialized curriulum, UT Southwestern will not develop comprehensive degree programs or standalone courses. Any Web developed courses will be hosted by the UT Telecampus using support products adapted by this organization. I have just recently assumed this position as of November 4 on a part-time basis and am have just barely scratched the surface of what we have and what we need. I am sorry to not be of much help. Our WebCT license is made available to us at this time at no charge through the VCT. That could change in August 2003. Distributed learning software would be a good designation as much of the useage is for hybrid courses (face2face with on-line) rather than pure DE. All of the above do not include salaries or purchase prices for servers. This survey is for the LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications which is the centralized entity for long-distance education at teh DCCCD. We are early in implementing distance education programs. First submission 12/2/2002 Second submission 12/6/2002 WebCT is priced above as single largest DE-related software purchase. Across campus exist: multiple departmental streaming servers, many multiple copies of mulimedia and course development software, etc. This survey was completed by Dr. Charlotte Wolf, Director of Instructional Technologies at San Antonio College at the request of Helen Torres, Director of Distance Education at SAC. Please forward survey results to Helen Torres at htorres @accd.edu and Dr. Charlotte Wolf at [email protected]. Any group purchasing discounts and service discounts will be greatly appreciated. Interested in Tegrity. WE are unable to provide costs due to licensing confidentality agreements. Baylor College of Medicine does not provide "distance education" as such, but does provide course resources to students 24x7 and to clinical students at remote locations or on away rotations. We are currently in the process of developing a distance education program. Please call Richard Coen at 903-589-4097 regarding specific details or [email protected]. We would appreciate the opportunity to participate in this project. Thank you. ACCD District office purchases these software licenses. Note: Smarthinking is in a pilot program phase. The price would go up significantly if we were to contract with them. This is definitely a product that we could use a group discount on. It is expensive. We have other programs that we use frequently (Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Flash, Final Cut Pro), but we do not purchase these products in bulk--usually one or two copies per campus. I would love a discount on some of these items, but I didn't feel that we bought enough to warrant listing them in the above columns. The ones I listed are our big-ticket or volume items. Presently, the Distance Learning Lab is just coming on line and course objectives are currently being defined. Good luck! St Edward's offers you any thing we can do to be helpful in your efforts. All of the software packages we are using are being integrated into our online couse development process tapping the course platforms licensed to the Telecampus, such as V- Campus, Prometheus and Blackboard. These are not licenses we as a campus have had to directly pay for. currently our distance ed courses are delivered by live televideo conferencing. equipment, maintenance and software upgrade costs were not included in the above estimates as they are not used for online courses. we are offering web based courses next semester under the WebCT license for A&M thereby not costing the School a specific charge. The HSC will have Blackboard which we may use in subsequent semesters.

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1. Contact Information: Please provide your name, title, institution, email and phone number.

Total Respondents 22 (skipped this question) 0

2. If you have not participated in any distance education-related collaboratives in the past five years, please tell us why in the box below. Answer questions 5 and 6 from your perspective (why would you want to participate in a collaborative; what would be the barriers?). Total Respondents 6 (skipped this question) 16

3. Please list and provide a short (2-3 sentences) description of all successful distance education- related collaboratives you have been involved with over the past five years (include partners). Total Respondents 21 (skipped this question) 1

4. Please list and provide a short (2-3 sentences) description of any distance education-related collaboratives you have been involved with in the past five years that were not successful (however you wish to define successful). Total Respondents 12 (skipped this question) 10

Percent Total Revenue generation 47.6% 10 Income stream for faculty member 14.3% 3 (s) Faster development and 38.1% 8 deployment of project or program Cost of program development is 38.1% 8 reduced considerably

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Leveraging buying power for 38.1% 8 licensed software and materials Wider variety of courses can be 81% 17 offered Faculty resources (the balance between teaching and research) 33.3% 7 can be used most efficiently Enhances faculty recruitment and 14.3% 3 retention efforts Encourages faculty to adapt their roles to meet the changing 66.7% 14 demands of learners Fosters faculty collaboration with 57.1% 12 colleagues Fosters faculty collaboration with 19% 4 private industry Creates more seamless transition from community college/ technical school to colleges and 33.3% 7 universities (easier transfer of credits) Assists the state in meeting the 57.1% 12 Closing the Gaps goals Reduces duplication of courses 71.4% 15 Direct cost savings 9.5% 2 Shared marketing costs 19% 4 Cost avoidance 23.8% 5 Savings in hardware costs through centralized hosting of 33.3% 7 strategic software programs Time or cost savings in the 38.1% 8 training of instructors Increase in enrollments 71.4% 15 Increase in admissions 38.1% 8

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Sharing creative teaching 38.1% 8 methods & best practices Sharing design models 33.3% 7 Improved student support (such as 24x7 technical support that is 19% 4 centralized) Higher levels of intellectual property -- possibly moving 14.3% 3 toward reusable learning objects Provision of more online 57.1% 12 programs Leveraging buying power for 23.8% 5 licensed software and materials Collectively salvage critial programs that are individually 9.5% 2 experiencing shrinking enrollments Time savings by avoiding duplication of effort in designing 42.9% 9 curriculum Greater access to educational opportunities for students in 85.7% 18 your geographic region Other (please specify) 4.8% 1 Total Respondents 21 (skipped this question) 1

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6. For those distance education-related collaboratives that were not successful, what were the barriers that made the project or program fail? Check all that apply. Response Response

Percent Total Performance benchmarks were based on individual institutional 0% 0 performance (as opposed to the collaborative as a whole) Focus was on degrees and courses, rather than learning 0% 0 pathways Articulation of courses across 14.3% 1 institutions Incompatible technology 42.9% 3 infrastructures Varying tuition and fees 28.6% 2 Inter-institutional registration 28.6% 2 procedures and processes Lack of/outdated intellectual 0% 0 property policies Lack of a commercial license 0% 0 template and policy Upper administration did not keep the issue of collaboration at 14.3% 1 the forefront of discussion "Not invented here" syndrome got 28.6% 2 in the way of collaboration Lack of quality courseware 0% 0 available for licensing Lack of compatibility between 0% 0 major Web platforms Lack of statewide portal for access to students' academic 0% 0 records Course scheduling 57.1% 4 Student advising 0% 0

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Faculty workload reporting 14.3% 1 No resources available to provide for development support (release 14.3% 1 time, technical support, instructional design support, etc.) Unfamiliarity with collaborative 28.6% 2 procedures/roles/responsibilities Colleges/universities not interested in offering single 14.3% 1 courses to public schools Change in personnel 14.3% 1 Other (please specify) 28.6% 2 Total Respondents 7 (skipped this question) 15

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Committee on Distance Education Collaborative Content/Program Efforts

Charge to the Committee To explore how distance education partnerships can contribute to statewide higher education needs identified by state leaders, and to take a strategic view of which issues and priorities could be positively impacted by the combined resources of DE providers in the state.

Process The committee met via audioconference in November and December. During those meetings, it was decided that the group would 1) compile a list of collaborative projects in Texas, 2) determine cost savings that result from collaborative efforts, 3) identify the incentives and barriers surrounding collaboration, and 4) identify best practices in collaboration and make recommendations for future collaborative projects. The group was divided into three subcommittees to address these issues.

Survey Instrument The committee developed a survey instrument (see Appendix A) for distribution to distance education managers and administrators. The purpose of the survey was to request information about collaborative programs and projects, regardless of level of success. Respondents were also asked to identify barriers to and incentives for collaboration.

Results of the Survey Sixty-six distance educators responded to the survey. The raw data results can be found in Appendix B (overall view) and Appendix C (details of each collaborative).

Three open-ended questions were asked:

1. If you have not participated in any distance education-related collaboratives in the past five years please tell us why in the box below. Answer questions 5 and 6 from your perspective (why would you want to participate in a collaborative; what would be the barriers?).

2. Please list and provide a short (2-3 sentences) description of all successful distance education-related collaboratives you have been involved with over the past five years (include partners).

1 3. Please list and provide a short (2-3 sentences) description of any distance education-related collaboratives you have been involved with in the past five years that were not successful (however you wish to define successful).

The majority of the respondents reported being involved in some type of collaboration. Only five respondents indicated they had not been involved in a collaborative project in the past five years.

Barriers To and Incentives For Collaboration In general, neither the state nor higher education institutions have been oriented strongly toward developing and implementing visions in which multiple institutions hold a shared stake in both processes and outcomes. And for good reason: inter-institutional collaboration is difficult in any area, and distance education is no exception. To date, the political/social climate has not been conducive to collaboration; high-level leadership has been lacking; policies and practices have been obstructive; and rewards for engaging in collaborative ventures have been inadequate. Awareness is growing, however, that collaboration has its advantages. For distance education, collaboration may prove to be the only way that colleges and universities can continue to have access to a multiplicity of costly and sophisticated resources that are required for successful distance education programs.

Although varying degrees of overlap exist, barriers to and incentives for collaboration may be broadly organized under three headings: 1) Bureaucratic: Policies and Practices 2) Financial and 3) Institutional/Cultural

Bureaucratic: Policies and Practices Barriers: The paucity of policies and practices supporting collaboration at the state and institutional levels is reflected by the fact that neither level integrates collaboration into their planning and budgeting processes. Collaborative distance education efforts are hindered by inflexible institutional policies that make inter-institutional collaborative efforts both difficult and unrewarding. Legislative Budget Board (LBB) performance benchmarks, for example, do not recognize or reward accomplishments achieved through inter-institutional collaboration. Institutions must report progress to the LBB regarding established benchmarks such as student retention rates. At this time, four-year institutions are penalized if students enroll in their institution with the intent of transferring to another institution to complete a degree program.

Information required for THECB must be reviewed to determine whether existing practices discourage collaboratives. For example, the current the faculty workload reporting process serves as a barrier to the use of innovative practices such as teaching teams consisting of tenure-track faculty, "clinical" faculty, etc.

Incentives: Policies vital to supporting partnerships through distance education must be revised or developed under strong, high level leadership, with emphasis given to

2 establishing partnerships between universities, community colleges, public schools, and public/private corporations to deliver programs and services throughout Texas.

• At the state level— o High-level leadership and support o Establish LBB performance benchmarks that reward collaborative efforts o Launch a joint effort between THECB and institutions to create and implement processes recognizing and rewarding innovation o Offer effective coordination between institutional ambitions and statewide plans (i.e., Closing the Gaps) • At the institutional level, address issues related to— o Faculty workload o Inter-institutional course articulation o Varying tuition and fees o Inter-institutional registration procedures o Course scheduling o Student advising o Resource allocation o Academic and student service policies o Policies on intellectual property that balance the rights of faculty, staff, and institutions

Financial Barriers: Since there is currently no reward for them to do so, institutions fail to sufficiently integrate the technology-enhanced education and distance education necessary for collaborations into their budgeting processes. State funding to universities is based on credit hour production and on the collection of tuition and fees.

Incentives: Institutions must review and revise policies and procedures that affect program development, delivery, and evaluation to support distance education collaborations. The issue of accountability should also address institutions' obligation to the taxpayers of Texas to maximize return on investment. To discourage the duplication of effort, the state should reward institutions that share resources, including, but not limited to: learning objects, specific courses, degree programs, and faculty.

A focus on learner outcomes will promote anywhere/anytime learning, reduce repetition, and reduce initial costs so that higher learning is more affordable to the economically disadvantaged. For example, institutions may "unpack" courses into competency modules and upon student demonstration of proficiency, "repack" the competency modules into courses. This process will require registrars to rethink how coursework is recorded on transcripts.

Institutional/Cultural Barriers: Lacking a history of inter-institutional collaboration, colleges and universities have little past knowledge and experience to build upon when it comes to working in collaborative relationships. Consequently, institutions find themselves in a profoundly

3 challenging position – they must struggle to change entrenched traditions that impede collaborations, while simultaneously navigating through the terra incognita of the collaborative environment.

Faculty concerns about job security represents one area of concern for faculty, often fueled by myth and misperception. The fear that distance education collaborations can mean extra duties for already overburdened teachers may stem from the need for technological (re)-training, increased difficulties coordinating student schedules, or from the implications for increased class sizes. The threat from increased class size is two-fold: increased class size without compensation, and the assumption that the demand for professors will decrease if one professor can serve thousands of students.

Incentives: To dispel such misperceptions and to generate interest in and support for collaborations, we must educate higher-level administrators, prospective partners, and prospective students about the value/benefits of participating in distance learning collaboratives. Institutions need assistance so that they are able to calculate the real costs and savings of implementing distributed and distance learning. Toward that end, we must provide a centralized location (e.g., website) as a clearinghouse for collaboration FAQS, collaborative-based student scholarship information, sample/template partnership agreements, etc. Such a site could also serve as a portal to best practices on various processes inherent in distance education collaboratives (e.g., financial models, registration models – like the Virtual College of Texas model)

To cultivate and implement collaborative solutions to pressing problems, administrators, faculty, and staff must develop visions of new possibilities, new organizational structures to accommodate those visions, and new roles and responsibilities to achieve them.

• Needed at the institutional level—

o High-level leadership and support o Recognition that colleges and universities must address the unique needs of a new generation of learners o Equal weight given to the human and technological aspects o Involve teachers in the change process o Support for new forms of teaching and learning o Adaptation of faculty roles and responsibilities to accommodate changing demands o Focus on learning outcomes o Incentives for early innovators o Institutional flexibility at all levels o Support for new forms and measures of accessibility and accountability o Willingness to share

There is a growing recognition that collaboration is the sine qua non for the future of distance education. Realizing that future first requires that administrative leaders, faculty, and staff reformulate their vision in light of the opportunities and challenges

4 presented by distance education collaboratives. Making this new vision a reality requires that difficult – even revolutionary – changes be made in institutional cultures and, concurrently, in the policies and practices that govern and define how they operate.

Recommendations This study has identified the majority of collaborative distance education programs and projects in the state. However, further research is necessary in order to fully explore the collaboratives, how they are funded, and to identify specific barriers and/or incentives for each one. In addition, specific cost savings resulting from collaboratives are still being identified.

It is highly recommended that the task force continue its work to determined the information identified above.

5 Distance Education Collaborative Content/Program Efforts Team Members

Darcy Hardy, Team Leader Assistant Vice Chancellor & Director, UT TeleCampus The University of Texas System

John Edwards VP for Enrollment and Student Services The University of Texas – Pan American

Sandy Frieden Executive Director of Distance Education/Campus Net University of Houston System

Mary Hendrix Interim Associate VP for Academic Affairs Texas A&M University - Commerce

Adrianna Lancaster Associate Director, Center for Distance Education The University of Texas at Arlington

Randy McDonald Director, Office of Instructional Technology Stephen F. Austin State University

Rob Robinson Associate Director UT TeleCampus The University of Texas System

Randy Schormann Associate Dean, Instructional Innovation Mclennan Community College

Ron Thomson Director, Virtual College of Texas Austin Community College

Phil Turner Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs for Distance Education University of North Texas

Gail Weatherly Distance Education Coordinator Office of Instructional Technology Stephen F. Austin State University

Alecia Wolf The University of Texas Health Center – Tyler East Texas Consortium

Appendix A

Survey Instrument

Appendix B

Raw Data

Appendix C

Collaborations in Texas

Open-Ended Questions from Survey

2. Please list and provide a short (2-3 sentences) description of all successful distance education-related collaboratives you have been involved with over the past five years (include partners).

3. Please list and provide a short (2-3 sentences) description of any distance education-related collaboratives you have been involved with in the past five years that were not successful (however you wish to define successful).

10 Responses (in alphabetical order)

Alvin Community College Patrick Sanger Director, Distance Education [email protected] 281-756-3728

1. N/A

2. We have been involved in the VCT, TCET and the Electronic Campus. VCT gives us a venue to offer or add classes from other schools. TCET gives us access to our telecourses and saves us cash in licenses. The electronic campus gives us a greater reach with our course advertising.

3. N/A

Angelina College Dr. Larry Phillips, President [email protected] 936 633-5200

1. N/A

2. NET/NET Consortium; Virtual College of Texas

3. I'm not sure how successful any of our distance learning is - - -if success is measured by outcomes (which have yet to be measured against any control group) and by cost effectiveness (distance learning is VERY expensive). If success is student satisfactory then we are successful because students like the ease of distance learning.

Angelo State University Doug Fox Director of Technology [email protected] (915) 942-2333

1. N/A

2. For the past three years we have been receiving two-way videoconference Criminal Justice graduate classes from University of Texas Permian Basin. Even though enrollment is minimal the participating students have enjoyed the convenience of earning a degree from UTPB without traveling to Odessa to take courses. Several years ago we participated in the Southwest Conference for Advanced Technological Education collaborative. Through this collaborative our faculty participated in training courses to adapt their teaching style to the interactive video format. This was very beneficial at the time but now we have shifted our focus to web-based courses.

3. N/A

11 Ron Brey Associate Vice President Instructional Resources and Technology [email protected] 512-223-7795

1. N/A

2. • 1. The TIFB Discovery Grant for the Texas Educational Streaming Media Collaborative (TESMC) incorporates streaming media technology into the distance education programs at seven community and technical colleges. The project provides the appropriate pedagogically research faculty training staff support and student resources to provide greater access increase student success and provide more effective teaching and learning. Partners: Austin Laredo Blinn Navarro TSTC Waco South Plains Brazosport. • 2. HE4: Develop an online AAS degree in Medical Lab. Technology with St. Phillips Del Mar & Tyler • 3. Interactive video classroom network with Manor and Nixon-Smiley ISDs to offer ACC Early College Start students at the high schools. 4. Virtual College of TExas -- all 50 TX community colleges & TSTC. 3. N/A

Baylor College of Medicine Dr. Michael Fordis Director, Center for Collaborative and Interactive Technologies Associate Dean and Director, Office of Continuing Medical Education [email protected] 713-798-8256

1. N/A

2. • 1.With support from Episcopal Health Charities, Baylor College of Medicine in partnership with five community health centers created electronic patient education materials on select topics for low income patients and families in both English and Spanish. These materials were delivered using kiosks deployed in waiting rooms and patient education areas. In addition a comprehensive online library of patient education handouts in English and Spanish were customized and made available via the Internet to these same clinics and health centers for use in patient education and counseling sessions. • 2.Baylor College of Medicine in collaboration with the University of Michigan has provided online continuing medical education activities for physicians and other healthcare providers. These activities included multimedia Internet presentations on management of cholesterol and dyslipidemias delivered by national experts in cardiovascular disease to physicians in Texas and throughout the nation. • 3. Addressing the Texas Higher Education Plan “Closing the Gaps ” Baylor College of Medicine and Texas A&M University have created an online alternative teacher certification program to increase the number of lifescience teachers in the state in grades 8-12. Additional online resources for Texas life science teachers teaching will also be available and focus in the TEKS and include lessons resources and continuing professional development for teachers.

3. N/A

12 Blinn College Candace Schaefer Dean, Distance Education [email protected] 979.209.7403

1. N/A

2. Interactive Video Partnerships: We connect via T-1 to Region VI and XIII and serve 8 school districts in those service areas to deliver concurrent enrollment courses to high school students in our service area. We are providing 1 interactive video course through the Virtual College of Texas to a high school in Austin Community College's service area and pairing that school with a school in our service area via interactive video. Internet and Telecourses: We participate in the Virtual College of Texas as both a host and provider school sharing courses with other community colleges throughout the state. We have also had collaborative grants through the VCT including faculty training. We also have a grant with 6 other community colleges for streaming media (TESMC) and belong to Starlink.

3. In defining successful/unsuccessful, I'm not sure I can separate this answer from my previous answer. I think that our collaboratives have all been successful but none of them have been without difficulty. They all take a great deal of coordination and a commitment to put aside ego and territorial issues. Perhaps the most difficult thing to work out with one particular partnership has been the technical difficulties when multiple sites are engaged in interactive video. Usually there is a lot of finger pointing before folks own up and solve problems and by that time the damage has been done regarding instructional time. This has been true with one partnership. The other ones have been absolutely fantastic.

Central Texas College Suzzette Chapman Director, Distance Education/Educational Technology [email protected] 254.526.1348

1. N/A

2. N/A

3. InfoNET: 1994-Present Consortium with independent school districts in service area to provide college credit courses for adults and early admission/dual credit programs for in-school students. BellNET 1996-Present A Consortium of public schools community colleges municipalities hospitals and other entities providing educational opportunities for communities and citizens through a countywide videoconference network. Virtual College of Texas--1998-Present A consortium of 52 community colleges sharing distance education programs and courses using a host-provider model.

13 Coastal Bend College Alma C. Adamez Director of Educational Services 3800 Charco Rd. Beeville, TX 78102 [email protected] (361) 354-2268

1. Participated in VCT collaboration

2. Virtual College of Texas with member community Colleges Nursing Bridge Project - Coastal Bend College and Del Mar College

3. N/A

Dallas County Community Colleges Pamela Quinn President and Assistant Chancellor, LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications [email protected] 972-669-6550

1. N/A 2. • 1. Participate in the Virtual College of Texas. • 2. We lease our courses to about 1 000 colleges per year. These are semester partnerships for sharing courseware. • 3. Participate in Navy College Partnership (one of 16 national credit course providers to the Navy) • 4. Operate STARLink statewide staff development satellite delivered programs to community colleges. • 5. Manage the Texas Consortium for Educational Telecommunications approximately 60 schools who participate in group buys and information sharing. • 6. Have leased courses for other providers to reduce development time and costs. • 7. Member of the TeleLearning People to share in marketing costs and efforts.

3. We are not as active the Virtual College of Texas because of limited student spaces available in our classes to offer to other colleges.

El Paso Community College Jenny Giron Associate Vice President, Instructional Services (915)831-2348 [email protected]

1. N/A

2. EPCC is participating in collaboratives with all of the school districts in of the service area. EPCC is providing dual credit offerings via distance education and working with school paraprofessionals of the area.

3. Have tried collaboratives with our international partners in Mexico.

14 Frank Phillips College Preston Haddan Director of Extended Education 806-274-5311 ext. 775 [email protected]

1. Frank Phillips College is currently collaborating with Amarillo College and Clarendon College in a distance education project involving a TIF grant.

2. TIF collaborative grant project with Amarillo and Clarendon Colleges to provide distance education courses and telecourses via the Internet. This project has been success for all three schools each in a different manner. The three participants have found success by being able to share courses directly via the Internet without going through a third party.

3. None

Hill College Joe Shaughnessy Interim Director of Distance Learning [email protected] 254-582-2555 ext 240

1. N/A 2. • 1. Central Texas Education Network (CTEN). A two-way interactive television network between HC TSTC MCC Navarro Whitney ISD Clifton ISD Hillsboro ISD and Itasca ISD. High school student are able to take dual credit classes from area community colleges. Also provides a link to ESC Region 12 to expand to more districts. • 2. Region Eleven Televison Network (RETN). Providing two way interactive television courses to school districts in the ESC Region 11 service area. • 3. Virtual College of Texas (VCT) Community colleges throughout the state sharing online and televised courses.

3. None at this point.

Houston Community College System Stephen Levey Executive Director, Distance Education [email protected] (713) 718-5261

1. N/A

2. Texas Collaborative for Teaching Excellence - for professional development for faculty. Virtual College of Texas - a collaborative of community colleges in Texas where students can register at their local colleges to take distance learning courses from the other colleges in the collaborative. 3. N/A

15 Howard College Stan Solis Director of Distance Learning [email protected] (915) 264-5124

1. N/A

2. REACH (UTPB and Howard College) They provide equipment and the line. We provide a room and facilitators. HC hosts upper level courses for students in our area. Virtual College of Texas. This allows us to provide a very wide range of online courses to our students. Through the 41 colleges in this group we are able to meet the demand for online courses. VIDNET We use this video conferencing network to provide content to the High Schools in our area. Most colleges are a part of this network. UNIDOS Our newest collaborative UNIDOS is ongoing. Through a grant Odessa College Midland College and HC are working to provide Video on Demand to rural areas. Equipment testing has been successful thus far. West Texas Training Center. This is a project with Angelo State University to provide teleconferencing over IP. This endeavor will move us into the next stage of video conferencing. Equipment testing has been successful thus far.

3. N/A

Kilgore College Charleen Worsham Director, Instructional Technology & Distance Education [email protected] (903) 988.3700

1. N/A

2. We are active participants in the Virtual College of Texas which has been very successful at providing DE courses to students while preserving the service areas boundaries of community colleges. Our institution is a member of NetNet a collaborative of numerous colleges and universities in the East Texas area. We have been receiving upper level courses from a neighboring 4-year university via interactive video using this equipment. As part of this capability we are currently developing a teacher education partnership among area ISD's and our college and an area university (SFASU). We are in the process of exploring possibilities for distance education and training using desktop videoconferencing via a TIF community network.

3. N/A

Lamar State College - Port Arthur Dr. Charles Gongre Dean of Academic and Continuing Education Programs [email protected] (409) 984-6229

1. N/A

2. N/A

3. We tried a partnership with Lamar State College - Orange via interactive television. For about a year we broadcast courses to their campus which they were not already offering and they broadcast courses to us which we were not offering. We had many technical problems and the enrollment did not justify the money and energy we had to put into the program so we cancelled it. We also offered interactive television classes to area high schools (for concurrent enrollment) via

16 the Region 5 Service Center in Beaumont. We enrolled 3 students in the fall of 2000 and 3 in the spring of 2001. We experienced technical problems and logistical problems and once again the enrollment did not justify the resources we had to put into the program so we ended it.

Lamar University Paula Allison Nichols Director, Educational Technology Center [email protected] (409) 880-1847

1. N/A

2. • 1. SETTEN - Region 5 network includes 30 public schools Lamar and Angelina College. Lamar provides dual credit courses and graduate courses to the network. • 2. LINC - Barbers Hill ISD Hardin Jefferson ISD, Dayton ISD share resources and provide dual credit courses • 3. INVEST - Lamar Texas School for the Deaf, the deaf cooperative in Bryan ISD share resources and instruction between the Deaf graduate program at Lamar mainstreamed deaf students and the residential deaf students.

3. N/A

Laredo Community College Beth Krueger Director, Center for Distance Learning [email protected] 956-721-5211

1. N/A

2. College level classes are provided to qualified high school students via interactive videoconferencing (IVC). This was initially funded by a Discovery grant I believe. IVC courses from the UT Health Sciences Center provide LCC Allied Health faculty with a chance to earn Continuing Education Units (CEU). IVC courses are also provided for area teachers and nurses so that they may also earn CEUs.

3. One of the high schools did not have enough money to pay for a T1 line so they were unable to receive IVC courses. They said that their low number of students could not justify the expense.

McLennan Community College Randy Schormann Director, Center for Instructional Innovation 1400 College Drive Waco, TX 76708 [email protected] 254-299-8378

1. N/A

2. Dual credit in 20 area high schools via 2-way instruction and/or on-line courses. Telecourses. University level courses in Waco with Tarleton, UT Arlington, UT Medical Branch Galveston. Major collaboration through Center Texas Educational Network - connections our college with area Service Center and all public schools hospitals libraries in the service area. Too numerous to

17 list - faculty list-servs with state and national organizations. VCT. Library participates with TexShare.

3. Have attempted to import on-line courses created by others - but no real interest.

Midwestern State University Pamela Morgan Director of Extended Education [email protected] 940-397-4785

1. N/A

2. MSU and Texas Tech ITV partner for graduate Nursing. MSU and Universities Center of Dallas with 5 other institutions UNT UTD TWU Texas A&M Commerce UTA MSU College of Education and Keller ISD MSU College of Education and Region IX MSU and Ranger College in Graham Texas to deliver junior senior courses. MSU and Wichita Falls ISD. Holliday ISD and surrounding areas for High School concurrent. Articulation agreement with community colleges with Radiologic Science courses. Texas Computer-based Testing Collaboration Grant with other Texas Institutions

3. TTVN collaborations for Physics consortium with Tarleton State, West Tx A&M. Programs were difficult to schedule differences in credit hours and lab requirements.

Navarro College Linda D. Timmerman, Ed.D Vice President for Institutional Advancement [email protected] (903) 875-7594

1. N/A

2. Hill-Navarro Consortia - linking 6 rural high schools in Hill and Navarro Counties with college- level courses as well as sharing high school courses between consortia schools via instructional TV. Partners: Navarro College, Hill College, Frost, Dawson Blooming Grove Hubbard Penelope and Bynum ISDs. Virtual College of Texas - Navarro College students take on-line courses from any community college in the State of Texas through a host/provider model. Partners: all community colleges in Texas EdNet10 Video Network - connects Navarro College with ITV courses offered by Texas A&M University-Commerce. (Partners: Navarro College, Texas A&M University-Commerce and Region X ESC

3. N/A

North Central Texas College George A. Marquez Instructional Designer 1525 West California Street Gainesville, TX 76214 [email protected] 940 668-7713 Ext. 437

1. N/A

18 • 1. North Central Texas College/ Collin County Community College. Project Uplink to provide a recommended process and structure for 2 year colleges to create a Distance Education program. • 2. University of North Texas and North Central Texas College. A collaborative to create an electronics track learning pathway at the 2 year college level and progressing to a university engineering degree. Combining traditional classroom and distance education. • 3. Collin County Community College District and North Central Texas College. The design is the expansion outside of the traditional classroom via wireless connectivity to the surrounding community. Mobile wireless computer labs and classrooms. • 4. The establishment of teleconference classrooms on each of our three campuses. This to enable students to participate in more classroom opportunities where small class numbers would be insufficient to maintain a course.

3. • 1. The collaboratives to create a recommended structure for 2 year colleges who wished to integrate technology was not successful. Rapid changes in technology learning platforms and technology tools could not be reflected accurately enough in a standardized plan to benefit any specific institution. • 2. The electronics program here did not attract enough students to make the program viable.

North Harris Montgomery Community College District Dr. Debra Rockefeller District Director for Distance Learning [email protected] (936).273.7655

1. N/A

2. Virtual College of Texas (VCT) - have provided classes to students enrolled in other Texas community colleges. Have also provided and received professional development opportunities through the VCT. Project LEAD - grant funded activity to provide professional development for librarians to better support distance learning faculty and students. Grant management team has members from the Univ. of Houston. NHMCCD's University Center and Montgomery College.

3. N/A

Odessa College Robert M Munoz Dean of Distance Workforce and Continuing education. [email protected] 915-367-6685

1. N/A

2. Delivery of classes via-interactive system at six area high schools.

3. N/A

19 Palo Alto College Robert L. Garza Director of Distance Learning [email protected] 210-921-5494

1. N/A

2. Virtual College of Texas - This program works with community colleges across the state to help students enroll in courses that otherwise might not be available.

3. N/A

Panola College Ann Morris Director of Distance Learning 1109 W. Panola St. Carthage, TX 75633 [email protected] 903-693-2014

1. N/A

2. Panola College spearheaded East Central Education Network a consortium consisting of Panola and several ISDs that received a TIE grant for infrastructure and ITV classrooms. Panola also is part of the NorthEast Texas Network. Currently we are collaborating with SFA to provide upper- level education courses (eventually whole degree) via ITV to the Panola campus. We are also active in the Virtual College of Texas.

3. N/A

Sam Houston State University James L Van Roekel Director of Academic Instructional Technology and Distance Learning [email protected] 936-294-3129

1. N/A

2. NETNet: The Northeast Texas Consortium or NETnet is the collaborative effort of 15 higher education institutions to bring a wide array of educational opportunities to 50 rural Northeast Texas counties. NETnet's objective is to make available - via innovative technology applications - a diverse curriculum specifically designed to meet the evolving needs of a highly competitive yet geographically isolated client population. The University Center The Woodlands Texas: a branch campus collaborative of six regional universities.

3. Family and Consumer Sciences teacher collaboration through TEA. Is still in development after some time.

20 San Jacinto College District Dr. Ken Dvorak Distance Learning Coordinator 4111 Fairmont Pkwy. Suite 100 Pasadena, TX 77504 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 281.998.6110

1. N/A

2. Blackboard Smarthinking Collegis Vitual College of Texas SCT Banner

3. N/A

South Texas Community College Bud M. Seward Director, Instructional Resources [email protected] 956 683-2592

1. Some prospective partners apparently did not agree in the value of the partnerships.

2. VCT Discovery grant in 1999 provided Server and PCs for remote proctored testing.

3. None

Southwest Texas Junior College Dr. Blaine Bennett LPC Dean of Institutional Advancement & Technology 2401 Garner Field Road Uvalde, TX 78801 Work Phone: 830.591.7275 Fax: 830.591.7354 [email protected]

1. N/A

2. We've been involved in an extensive collaborative with area school districts. This includes providing both internet access and interactive video conferencing to the following partners: 22 Area School Districts: in addition to the school districts we have collaborations with Two Regional Education Service Centers (ESC 20 & ESC 15). Four Regional Hospitals Six Institutions of Higher Education and; Middle Rio Grande Development Council

3. While we have not had any collabortives that would be classified as not successful certainly there are some that have been more productive and beneficial than others. For example while we are connected with and collaborate with the area hospitals on-going communications and programming with the hospitals has been sporadic and often difficult.

21 Southwest Texas State University Gene Martin Director, Extended & Distance Learning [email protected] (512)245.2725

1. N/A

2. SWT is a participant in the FCS Texas Alliance. The Department of FCS offers several web-based courses to other Texas university students through this alliance. SWT used various technologies to deliver the MS in Social Work to students at the UH - Victoria. This program ran for approximately 5 years.

3. N/A

St. Philip's College Dr. Julia W. Briggs Director, Instructional Technologies [email protected] (210) 531-3510

1. N/A

2. • 1) Dual credit with local and area high schools using telecourses Internet courses and interactive video courses. • 2) Our college is an active participant in the Virtual College. • 3) Our college partners with Texas A&M-College Station and Texas A&M-Kingsville to offer undergraduate and graduate level courses to students in the San Antonio area. Through our partnership with Texas A&M-College Station many people from San Antonio and the surrounding area have been able to complete all of their coursework toward a Ph.D. • 4) SPC working with Southwest Texas Junior College offers a 2-year radiography tech program to Del Rio Eagle Pass and Uvalde. This partnership includes both colleges and three hospitals.

3. Several years ago we had some technical and logistic problems when we tried to deliver and interactive video course from the Allied Health Department to several rural communities. Since then we have had better luck with scheduling video network time and have added an online component to the course.

Stephen F. Austin State University Randy McDonald Director, Office of Instructional Technology SFA Box 13038 Nacogdoches, TX 75962 [email protected]

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2. The following two programs are a collaborative between SFA and UT. Professors at SFA teach some of the courses and professors at UT Health Center in Tyler teach some courses. The Biotechnology Program Description: Offers a Master of Science in Biotechnology to students in Tyler or Nacogdoches Delivery mode(s): Interactive video. Sites involved: SFA UTHCT. Type of users: Students seeking Master of Science in Biotechnology. Type of courses:

22 Biotechnology. The Environmental Science Program Description: Offers a Master of Science in Environmental Science to students in Tyler or Nacogdoches. Delivery mode(s): Interactive video. Sites involved: SFA UTHCT. Type of users: Students seeking Master of Science in Environmental Science. Type of courses: Environmental Science. Project Vision Description: Offers a teaching endorsement for students who want to be Teachers of students who are Visually Impaired (TVIs) eligible for ACVREP Certification for Orientation and Mobility Specialists (COMS) and Master's Degree available in TVI or COMS. Delivery mode(s): Web Streaming Video Interactive Video Chat Telephone Instant Messenger. Sites involved: SFA up to 20 Education Service Centers (through TETN video network) and states involved in the five-state grant for Project Vision (Idaho Montana Texas Washington and Wyoming) through Internet2. Type of users: Teachers. Competitive applications for certified teachers Rehab COMS and limited undergraduates. Type of courses: Limited Undergraduate Upper-level and post graduate special education courses in the area of visually impaired and orientation and mobility. FCS Alliance This is a collaborative of the 11 Universities in Texas who offer a teacher certification in the field of Family and Consumer Sciences. SFA and some of the others have developed webcourses that may be taken by students at any of the collaborative sites. Processes have been worked out among the collaborative to streamline applications registrations and the transfer of credit. The effort has helped programs at each site thrive and has helped students become certified in this high need subject area.

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Sul Ross State University David Cockrum, Vice President for Academic Affairs [email protected] (915) 837-8036

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2. SRSU has been involved in collaborative with other higher education institutions (UTPB Odessa College) and with public schools (Presidio ISD, Marfa ISD, Valentine ISD, Iraan ISD, Marathon ISD, and Balmorhea ISD). Our longest running program is with Presidio ISD involving numerous classes being taught via two way video for the past 8 years. With UTPB we alternate teaching classes using faculty on both campuses in areas with small student demand (Geology Theater).

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Sul Ross State University Rio Grande College Frank Abbott, Dean [email protected] (830) 279-3013 1. N/A

2. Much of our distance education effort is related to work within our three campuses in Del Rio Eagle Pass and Uvalde. Those have been very successful but are entirely self-contained as it were. We have expanded those significantly in the years. Our most successful external collaborative projects have been the mutual exchange of mathematics courses with Sul Ross State University in Alpine and our use by the University of Texas System in supporting mental health education programs within our region.

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23 Tarleton State University Dr. Joann Kroll Wheeler Director, Center for Instructional Technology & Distance Education [email protected] 254.968.9050

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2. • 1. Doc @ a Distance - Texas A&M - Commerce and Texas A&M University • 2. University of North Texas Representing Computer based Testing. • 3. City of Gatesville Texas - Community Networking Grant • 4. Coleman County Texas - Community Networking Grant • 5. Texas A&M University representing TTVN • 6. Degree Program collaborative with McClennon Community College • 7. Degree Program collaboration with Weatherford Community College • 8. Physics Consortium - Texas A&M Kingsville

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Tarrant County College District Dr. Carolyn C. Robertson. Director of Distance Learning 5301 Campus Drive Fort Worth, TX 76119 phone: 817-515-4410 fax: 817-515-4400 [email protected]

1. TCC has cooperated through the Virtual College of Texas with many community colleges and ISD's to provide college credit courses for concurrent enrollments and to share courses with other colleges. The reason for these collaboratives is to serve student needs and to reach students in rural areas who might not have opportunities to access concurrent or regular college courses otherwise.

2. Educational Service Center Region XI and TCCD have had successful collaboratives as has TCCD with numerous community colleges through the Virtual College of Texas.

3. None that I would deem not successful.

Temple College Ray Lanford Director of D.E. 2600 S. First St. Temple TX 76504 [email protected] 254-298-8388

1. N/A 2. • 1. Videoconference courses to/from Temple College main campus and Holland HS Taylor HS our TC Taylor Center Cameron HS and our TC Cameron Center. • 2. Common use among all of our Internet D.E. courses taught by English Criminal Justice and Business Management departments (this spring 2003 semester 11 courses total) of Ann Arbor Software's ConnectWeb delivery system. Very intuitive

24 useful delivery method including a built-in messaging system for these departments and their d.e. courses. (CIS and Math departments use their own individual course delivery methods primarily their own web pages pdf files downloadable ftp files etc created by the individual instructors.) • 3. Don't know if this should be included in collaborative but we also are a member of the DCCCD Consortium for telecourses and they handle consolidation of all of our telecourse license fees. • 4. Re telecourses we use our media center to copy and package tapes/cd's from the telecourse providers and our library to check these materials out to students. • 5. D.E. faculty meetings informal and formal--to discuss methods what works what doesn't; with speakers re d.e. methods that work how to interact online with students etc.

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Texas A&M University Elizabeth Tebeaux Director of Distance Education and Professor of English [email protected] (979) 845-4415

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2. Collaborative Ag. Education doctorate between TAMU and Texas Tech.

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Texas A&M University-Commerce Charlotte A. Larkin Interim Director, Instructional Technology & Distance Education 903-886-5459 (office) 903-886-5991 (fax) [email protected] http://www7.tamu-commerce.edu/itde/

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2. A&M-Commerce/Mesquite ISD Partnership Using a combination of off-campus F2F and technology-mediated instruction the university delivers courses and degrees to Mesquite ISD aides teachers and administrators. Includes shared facility and shared employment arrangements. A&M-Galveston Teacher Education Initiative Using the Trans-Texas Video Network the university delivers teacher education core courses to A&M-Galveston students. This initiative is targeted at addressing the critical teacher shortage areas in math and science. A&M-Corpus Christi RN/BSN Program An initiative targeted at addressing the critical shortage of nursing professionals. Students would remain on the Commerce campus and complete coursework that is delivered through a combination of web-based and two-way interactive video modes. The two universities are also exploring the feasibility of an RN program delivered via distance learning. Commerce Community Network (CCN) A TIF-funded project that connects the university school district public library hospital non-profit organizations and city using broadband wireless technology. East Texas Learning Interactive Network Consortium (ET-LINC) A partnership with the university a rural telephone company and eleven districts aimed at bringing broadband Internet access to Northeast Texas. Dual-credit courses have been provided to students in participating districts. Electronic Teacher’s College A TIF-funded project focused on preparing online teacher preparation modules and on piloting the use of technology to improve university/school mentoring activities. Northeast Texas Network Consortium (NETnet) NETnet is a state-owned wireless communications network linking 15 higher education facilities

25 in Northeast Texas. Using telecommunications towers microwave dishes and advanced videoconference classrooms students and educators will have access to courses from community colleges four-year universities a technical college and an academic medical center. Region X Education Service Center A project that targets the delivery of school administrator and school librarian certification courses to students in the DFW region. Region VIII Education Service Center A project focused on the delivery of dual-credit and other courses to students in Northeast Texas.

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Texas A&M University at Galveston Dr. Melanie J. Lesko [email protected] 409-740-4517

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2. Texas A&M University at Galveston is partnering with Texas A&M University at Commerce and Galveston Independent School District to provide teacher certification via ttvn to science students in Galveston. This program is designed to address the needs of Texas to produce more certified science teachers. TAMUG students are doing their classroom observations and student teaching at GISD.

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Texas A&M - Kingsville Daniel Suson Professor of Physics/Geosciences [email protected] 361-593-2299

1. I have participated in a distance education-related collaborative within the past five years.

2. The Texas Electronic Coalition for Physics is a collaborative that uses a combination of TTVN and the Internet to teach upper division physics courses and create a distributed department. The coalition consists of Texas A&M University-Kingsville West Texas A&M University Tarleton State University Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Texas A&M International University. It has been funded by the Department of Education's FIPSE program for the last two years.

3. None

TAMUS HSC Wendy Wolfington Office Associate Distance Education School of Rural Public Health [email protected] 979-492-3334 1. N/A

2. We do classes via TTVN to 7 locations within Texas. Our program offers classes for a master's degree in Public Health.

3. The only times I feel the classes have not been successful are due to power failures problems with electronic equipment and the occasional tornado.

26 Texas State University System Dr. Kenneth Craycraft Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Thomas J. Rusk Building Suite 600 200 East 10th Street Austin TX 78701-2407

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2. Directors of technology for the TSUS meet to discuss common issues of concern to purchase related technology services equipment and software. -system librarians meet to pool resources to purchase online subscriptions -college deans meet to develop online certification courses transferable to other system universities.

3. Those related to coursework delivery have never grown to anticipated numbers. Many online courses are taken by current students throughout the system for convenience purposes.

Texas Southern University Sameera Rizvi Director of Instructional Technology Jesse H. Jones School of Business [email protected] (713) 313-7642

1. At Texas Southern University we have recently started moving actively towards achieving distance education collaboratives. We were/are in the midst of improving our dist.ed. technology. We have a campus in the Woodlands and can now communicate with them through a distance ed. classroom in the College of Education. This will enable an instructor to be present in one location while students at another location more convenient to them can listen and participate in the class session. We have also purchased Tegrity which will enable instructors to post their lectures on BlackBoard. Tegrity records instructor audio and video and whatever is written on an ordinary whiteboard. We already had BlackBoard in place but with the combination of Tegrity we will now be able to provide powerful online courses to our student body. So with the advances we have made we will now be able to form successful partnerships. We are also working with Collegis to have a testing center on campus that will let our community prepare and take exams like the MCSE. There will also be business classes offered that will enable members of the community to take course in accounting marketing etc.

2. N/A

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Texas Tech University Rosslyn Smith Vice Provost, Outreach and Extended Studies Texas [email protected] 806-742-0133; 806-742-7200

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2. This list does not include collaborations within the TTU System. • 1. Ed.D. in Agricultural Education (“Doc at a Distance”): The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources offers a doctoral program in Agricultural Education in partnership with Texas A&M University. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) approved this innovative joint Doctor of Education in Agricultural

27 Education on April 20, 2000 with commendations. Courses are delivered using WebCT the Trans-Texas Videoconference Network (TTVN); the Internet and a variety of other methods including appropriate face-to-face meetings. • 2. Texas Tech University Interactive Writing Partnership with K-12 Schools (TIPS Project). In this project writing consultants provided online commentary to fourth and eighth grade students as they prepared for the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills test in 1999 2000 and 2001. Partners at different times during the three phases of the project included Education Service Center Region XV; teachers and fourth and eighth grade students in Region XV tutors at Texas Tech Texas Christian University Texas Wesleyan University and other locations; and Education Service Center Region XVII and students and teachers in Education Service Center Region XVII. According to feedback from teachers and staff at the education service centers the rate of success on the TAAS increased for most students including some special education students. The University Writing Center received one of five 2001 Texas Higher Education Star Awards presented to programs that help students succeed academically. • 3. Reach Across Texas: Preparation of Specialists in Visual Impairment: This is a collaborative program which involves Texas Tech University’s College of Education Stephen F. Austin University and the Texas School for the Blind. Courses have been delivered in various locations in Texas via iTV and to many individuals through web- based instruction. • 4. Courses in deaf education: Texas Tech University’s College of Education also collaborated with Stephen F. Austin University in the design and delivery of distance education courses in deaf education. The college’s collaborative projects with Stephen F. Austin made it possible to recruit and serve a “critical mass” of graduate students who were involved in the education of visually impaired and blind students and who were not served by other institutions of higher education in their area. Because of the small number of faculty members with expertise in this specialized area this collaborative program allowed a greater number and variety of courses to be offered and at the same time used faculty resources more efficiently. • 5. Family and Consumer Science Education Alliance: The Texas Education Agency Family and Consumer Science Education Alliance enrolls both undergraduate and post- baccalaureate students; its purpose is to enable students to complete the teacher certification requirements in the discipline. Participating universities include Abilene Christian University Lamar University Tarleton State University Texas A&M University - Kingsville Texas Southern University Texas Tech University Texas Woman's University Sam Houston State University Southwest Texas State University and Stephen F. Austin State University • 6. Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance (GPIDEA): The GPIDEA is a consortium of Human Sciences Colleges at ten universities. Students may take online courses to obtain teacher certification or pursue a degree offered by a single institution or multiple institutions. Member institutions of the Alliance include Colorado State University Iowa State University Kansas State University Michigan State University Montana State University North Dakota State University Oklahoma State University South Dakota State University Texas Tech University and the University of Nebraska. Although Texas Tech is not participating in the first GPIDEA programs in family financial planning it is likely that the College of Human Sciences will participate in at least one future program offered through the alliance. • 7. Texas Engineering Consortium: The Texas Engineering Consortium offers the Master of Engineering. Members of the consortium include Prairie View A&M University Texas A&M University Texas Tech University University of Texas at Arlington University of Texas at Austin University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas at El Paso University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Houston. • 8. Southwest Center for Advanced Technological Education (SCATE): The SCATE consortium’s primary purpose was to provide expanded educational opportunities between 2-year institutions by offering courses through the network that were not

28 available at the local institution. TTU’s involvement (as well as UH’s) was to provide the opportunity for faculty at the 2-year institutions to obtain advanced degrees. TTU’s involvement was of limited success. Very few individuals at the 2-year institutions took advantage of this opportunity so the offerings decreased over time; TTU participated in the first three years of the grant. The charter members of the steering committee included Texas Tech University, Amarillo College, University of Houston, South Plains College, Texas State Technical College-Waco Stamford Independent School District Northern New Mexico Community College Texas State Technical College-Sweetwater and Vernon Regional Junior College. • 9. Western Governors University: Texas Tech University is one of 45 education providers for Western Governors University.

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Texas Tech University Health Science Center at Amarillo Dr. Patrick J. King 1300 Coulter Amarillo, TX 79106 [email protected]

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2. Three semesters teaching an on-line graduate course in Educational Research at Campbellsville University KY School of Education Graduate Program (1st year with e-college 2nd and 3rd years with Connected Learning).

3. N/A

Tyler Junior College Mickey Slimp Dean, Learning Resources [email protected] 903-510-2591

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2. Virtual College of Texas - see www.vct.org for details Texas Collaborative for Teaching Excellence - Perkins funded initiative for Professional Development Texas Consortium for Educational Telecommunications - Collaborative for joint purchasing of courseware. Internet Teachers at Every College - Perkins funded initiative for online Professional Development. NetNet - Northeast Texas regional collaborative of colleges sharing a high-speed network. MedLab Collaborative - Collaborative of four colleges working together on a distance Med Lab curriculum ET-Linc - College/ISD partnership in East Texas for delivering high school and dual enrollment courses. SuperNet -College/ISD partnership in East Texas for delivering high school and dual enrollment courses. ESC7 Regional Network - ISD network including colleges for the delivery of collaborative courses.

3. LAAP partnership between Texas, Oregon and New Jersey to acquire USDOE Grant

29 University of Houston Dr. Marshall Schott Director, Educational Technology and Outreach [email protected] (713)743-0749

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2. • 1. 2+2 Programs with area Community Colleges (all in Gulf Coast Region) • 2. Delivery of Programs to System Centers and MITC's (includes UH System Schools and those involved at The University Center at The Woodlands) • 3. Delivery of programs to Texas Medical Center (in partnership with MD Anderson UT and Baylor Colleges of Medicine) • 4. Texas Based Testing Collaborative • 5. M.A. in Math for Teacher Education (with TAMU) • 6. Women's Health Information Collaborative (with TWU) • 7. Educational Leadership (multiple ISD's in greater Houston area)

3. • 1. Master's in Teaching to Katy ISD (low enrollment participation rate) • 2. UT-School of Nursing and UH (low enrollment)

University of Houston – Clear Lake Kate Finstad Director of Distance and Extended Education [email protected] (281)283-3032

1. Just started with UHCL July 1, 2002. Previous collaboratives were conducted in WI.

2. Becker CPA Review Becker Convisor

3. N/A

University of Houston Downtown Gail S.M. Evans Executive Director of Distance Education One Main St. Houston Texas 77002 [email protected] 713-221-2735

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2. • 1.UH-System at Sugar Land with UH UH-Clear Lake UH-Victoria Wharton County Junior College Houston Community College Southwest - a system center to deliver upper division and graduate courses needed for completion of bachelors and masters degrees. We share space technology and collaborate on delivery of courses so that students can take courses taught by partners to fulfill degree requirements. • 2. UH-System at Cinco Ranch with UH UH-Clear Lake UH-Victoria and Houston Community College - same arrangement at UH-System at Sugar Land

30 • 3. The University Center with Sam Houston State University Prairie View A&M Univ. Texas Southern University Texas A&M University University of Houston and North Harris Montgomery Community College District - MITC managed by the community college district. District provides space and support personnel - universities cover the budget - universities deliver upper division and graduate courses leading to bachelors and masters degrees. Some cross-enrollment particularly between UHD and SHSU at the undergraduate level.

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University of Houston System Distance Education/CampusNet Sandy Frieden, Executive Director [email protected] 281-395-2800 x. 6015

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2. • 1. University of Houston System Centers / UH System CampusNet. In order to serve our region by making higher education accessible the four universities of the UH System (UH UHCL UHD UHV) collaboratively deliver over 40 degree and certificate programs by various forms of distance education. Programs are available face-to-face at off-campus locations (some single-institution locations while others are MITC's) or by one of several electronic means (online videoconferencing PBS cable videotape) or by some combination of these modes. Using each institution’s program strengths deans establish lead (degree-granting) institutions and support campuses. Collaborating departments plan three-year rotations and lead institutions list support courses in their schedules and accept (partnered) courses from support institutions as their own. Students seamlessly register for courses from multiple universities within the system and at all times follow the rules for their home campus. At the two UH System teaching centers (MITC's) established in 1994 and 1999 the freshman/sophomore courses are delivered by designated community college partners (Houston Community College-Northwest at UHS at Cinco Ranch and Houston Community College-Southwest and Wharton County Junior College at UHS at Sugar Land). • 2. The University Center (The Woodlands) UH and UH-Downtown are two of six partners in a MITC (planning began in 1993) in far north Houston; the other partners are Prairie View A&M Texas A&M Sam Houston State University and Texas Southern University with Montgomery College (part of the North Harris Montgomery Community College District) providing freshman and sophomore programs. University representatives make up a council that determines policies at the MITC. Cross- enrollment occurs to a limited extent but is not yet seamless for the students (although we are working toward this). • 3. Corporate Outreach Program as part of our regional corporate outreach we have designed specific degree tracks with combinations of partners to provide desired programs in corporate settings. (Example: for a west-Houston area Citigroup call center we have arranged two tracks. One begins with applied business programs from Houston Community College System leads into a Technology Leadership and Supervision degree with UH and then to an MBA with UH-Victoria. A second track begins with the academic associate's degree from HCCS leads to a BBA from UH-Downtown and then to an MBA (with credit for the initial year of study) from UH-Victoria. Advisors from all programs provide regular orientation sessions for the Citigroup employees. Other collaborative projects (not complete degree programs): • 4. PBS/Texas Public Broadcasting Educational Network Grants UH System is currently collaborating with TWU (Houston) and the HAM-Texas Medical Center Library on creating digital learning objects for an archive on Women's Health to be housed within

31 the new PBS digital network. UH System is also building a similar program for a statewide archive on a variety of topics with the intention of creating an eventual base for shared digital delivery of programs across the state. • 5. Gulf Coast Education Network UH System and all 10-community colleges/systems in our region are connected via a high-speed network called the Gulf Coast Education Network. We are currently working on shared uses and applications for this network.

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University of North Texas Dr. Philip Turner Associate Vice President for Distance Education [email protected] (940)565.2058

1. N/A

2. In the UNT –Texas Woman’s University SLIS Cooperative Master’s Program each institution offered half the courses via videoconference to 3-4 sites in Texas. Each site was a cooperating university. The SLIS Master’s Web Institute offered at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and the University of Minnesota is a web-based program where students meet for two four-day institutes. Hosting institutions provide facilities personnel and courses which may be incorporated in the program. There are Master’s Degree Programs in Speech and Hearing and Sociology to a woman's college in Jerusalem. This program is videotape-based with instructors traveling to Jerusalem usually once a semester. The Rehabilitation Counseling Cooperative Master’s Program is a collaborative among Georgia State University, San Diego State University and UNT. This web-based program was started based on a federally mandated requirement for all rehabilitation counselors to have master's degrees in order to maintain their licenses. The School of Library and Information Sciences licensed web-based Youth Literature courseware to Valdosta State University in Georgia. The Texas Computer-Based Testing Collaborative involves 24 universities and 5 libraries which collaborated to create a state-wide computer based testing network to support distance learning students. The collaborative was funded through a TIF grant that provided testing equipment for facilities and scheduling software for students to reserve testing time.

3. A web-based Master's Degree in Criminal Justice was planned in collaboration with the Law Enforcement Training Network. The program did not occur. The University attempted to offer videoconference courses for dual-enrollment to high school students but there no enrollments.

University of Texas at Brownsville Douglas M. Ferrier Director of Library Information Resources and Distance Education [email protected] 956-983-7042

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2. UT-TeleCampus Collaborative: UT-Brownsville has developed a very successful M.Ed. in Educational Technology in collaboration with UTTC. UT-Brownsville is also participating in UTTC's MBA Online, Criminal Justice Online, and General Ed. Online Courses.

3. N/A

32 University of Texas at Dallas Abby Kratz, Assistant Provost [email protected] (972)883-6742

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2. Collaboration in UTTC MBA Online - very successful in enabling students to complete course requirements according to their own schedules and needs. High level of intra-university communication in developing the program was effective in designing a program that works for faculty and students. UTTC facilitation was a key element in the success of program building.

3. Collaboration in UTTC CS/EE Online - although successfully launched through UTTC this dual- university program has not been able to sustain the same level of collaboration as the MBA. Tensions have existed between instructors and UTTC staff concerning how/what/where to teach. Communication between the universities has been infrequent.

University of Texas at El Paso Dr. Henry T. Ingle Professor of Communication & Associate Academic Affairs Vice President for Technology Planning and Distance Learning [email protected] (915) 747-8901

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2. Advanced Networking for Minority Serving Institutions (AN-MSI) consortium funded by the NSF to Educause: Involves over 135 minority serving institutions of higher education working to improve their technical infrastructure for telecommunications and delivery opportunities for culturally relevant instructional materials that speak to the student body we serve. TeleCampus: Was one of the pioneering members of the Task Force and Advisory Committee in the state of Texas that envisioned and gave life to the TeleCampus consortium across the UT System. International U.S. Mexico Consortium for Distance Education involving HACU CONAHEC and Minority Serving Institutions like UTEP to deliver and exchange bilingual and bicultural courseware . Currently working with the Mexican States of Jalisco Chihuahua and Nuevo Leon as well as the Latin American countries of Colombia Venezuela and Peru under partial support from the U. S. Department of State.

3. None. All collaboratives have been successful and are on going and continuing to this date.

University of Texas at San Antonio Bill Angrove Assistant Vice Provost & Director Distance Learning & Academic Technology Voice: 210-458-5868 E-Mail: [email protected] Fax 210-458-7378

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2. College 101 College 101: Introduction to College is a distance-learning course designed to close the gap in higher education participation. This interactive class is delivered weekly via live videoconference to over 1 000 students in 10 middle and high schools in the San Antonio/South Texas area. In addition this course is supported an online environment that enhances learning communication and collaboration by using the Internet and computer. The classes are also available for review on the web site in a streaming video file format.

33 http://dlc.utsa.edu/Content/TIF/Index.htm Project Partners Include: Judson Senior High School Abraham Kazen Middle School Krueger Middle School Roosevelt HS Heritage Middle School Edgewood Academy Highlands High School Fox Tech High School Sam Houston High School Del Rio High School Carrizo Springs Junior High School Sterling Fly Junior High School Navarro Center George Gervin Youth Center Provodence H.S. In addition many Interactive video courses have been delivered to UTSA partners including: UT Austin UTEP UT Pan American USAA

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University of Texas Health Center at Tyler/ NETnet Kevin Roper Executive Director [email protected] (903) 877-7510

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2. East Texas Interactive Healthcare Network - credit and non-credit medical education to 9 regional hospitals via ITV. Biotech and Env Sci Masters programs - team taught with SFA via ITV. Northeast Texas Consortium - ITV and data linkages with 15 universities/colleges. Also includes links to regional service centers university system networks community networks and others. Supernet Consortium - 17 ISD network of rural K-12s. Currently using H.323 video internet access modem pool and other technologies. PARTNERS: due to the size and complexity of these linkages listing all the partnering institutions is not feasible. A current list of all potential partners (per connectivity) is available from NETnet at (903) 877-7510.

3. Our academic initiatives have to date been universally successful. That is not to say without difficulty so I will note hurdles to these successes in ITEM 6 below.

University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston Robert W. Vogler Executive Director, Center for Educational & Informational Innovations School of Nursing 1100 Holcombe Houston TX 77030

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2. Doctoral nursing courses with UT El Paso Dental Courses with Baylor Dental Nutrition courses with UT Medical School Nursing continuing education to Rio Grande Valley Undergraduate nursing courses to Ft Bend Library & University of Houston Graduate Public Health courses at 6 distance sites around state Pharmalcology nursing course with UTMB SON Medical school Graduate Medical Education residency meetings at remote clinical sites in Houston area Mobile van medical clinical sites at public Schools in Rio Grande Valley

3. N/A

34 University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Dr. John Littlefield Academic Informatics Services Office: 210-567-2280 Fax: 210-567-2281 [email protected]

1. We haven't perceived a need to develop distance ed. collaboratives. Health professions curricula tend to be institutionally specific although this is starting to change.

2. None to date. Developing compliance training programs appears to be a very useful distance education-related collaborative.

3. N/A

University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Lawrence Jones Director of Telehealth Services [email protected] 713 792 5520

1. N/A 2. M. D. Anderson has supported distance education programs in Clinical Laboratory Science in the areas of Radiation Therapy and Medical Dosimetry through its School of Health Sciences. Distant sites included the Moncrief Cancer Radiation Center in Fort Worth the Texas A&M College of Medicine in College Station and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. M. D. Anderson provided professional medical education and other CE programs in support of the M. D. Anderson Orlando Cancer Center in Orlando Florida and M. D. Anderson Espana in Madrid Spain. Distance Education programs have operated in support of the M. D. Anderson Services Corporation Physicians Network and the Cancer Manager Program. 3. All programs have been successful and are still in operation.

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Dr. Poldi Tschirch RN Director of Distance Education UTMB Telehealth Center [email protected] 409-747-6243

1. N/A

2. School of Allied Health Sciences • 1.Distance Programs • A. Clinical Laboratory Sciences(BS) - web-based materials and ITV broadcast sites- McLennan Comm. Coll. Waco; Wharton Co. Jr. Coll. Wharton; SFASAU Nacogdoches. • B. Nuclear Medicine (AAS) - web-based materials and ITV broadcast site - Scott and White Hospital Temple. • 2. Distance Courses • A. Intro to Research - undergrad and Masters web-based UTTelecampus graduate course offered as distance ed course through UT Brownsville • B. 6 courses in Physician Assistant curriculum taught via ITV broadcast to UTPA Edinburg. School of Nursing • 3. RN-BSN Program - • A. courses offered via ITV to Lee College Baytown until Fall 2001 when program became a totally web-based program.

35 • B. program offered via ITV to Wilford Hall Medical Center Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio for 2 admission cohorts as agreed under RFP for this distance outreach site. Both cohorts graduated site no longer active. • C. Medical Spanish elective - offered via UTT MSN program a. outreach site at Stephen F. Austin State Univ. - combination of web-based and ITV courses b. Neonatal Nurse Practitioner program - partners - Scott and White Hospital Temple and UT Arlington SON

3. none to my knowledge

University of Texas of the Permian Basin Doug Hale Director, REACH Program Center [email protected] 915-552-2873

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2. UTTC collaboratives: Kinesiology Online - six UT component universities collaborate to offer an MS in Kinesiology. Four (UTPB UTPA UTEP and UTT) give the degree while the other two (UTA and UTSA) contribute courses. MBA Online - eight UT component universities collaborate to offer an MBA. Seven (UTPB UTEP UTSA UTT UTB UTA UTPA) offer the degree and one (UTD) contributes courses. M.Ed. Ed Tech - degree given only by UTB but several other UT universities (UTPB UT Austin UTEP others?) contribute courses. CCJO - undergraduate completion program offered by three UT universities (UTPB UTA UTB).

3. N/A

University of Texas-Pan American Douglas Young Director, Center for Distance Learning [email protected] (956) 381-2976

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2. Hispanic Educational Telecommunications System - HETS was awarded a FIPSE LAAP grant and UTPA has been a major player by providing faculty development training for participating schools. U New Mexico U Puerto Rico City U of New York others University of Texas TeleCampus - provided faculty and students University of Texas Digital Library Partnered with South Texas Community College to provide faculty training

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36 University of Texas System Administration – UT TeleCampus Dr. Darcy Hardy Assistant Vice Chancellor and Director, UT TeleCampus 210 W. Sixth St. Ste. 2.100 Austin, TX 78701 512-499-4207 512-499-4735 [email protected]

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2. The UT TeleCampus is a service-driven, central support system for online education initiatives among the 15 UT System universities and research facilities. Our online courses and degree programs can be completed entirely at a distance and meet the same high-quality academic standards as their on-site equivalents. The UT TeleCampus provides extensive student services in addition to online learning opportunities.

In placing programs online, the TeleCampus sought to assist in the creation of collaborative degrees, utilizing the best resources in faculty expertise from all campuses. This model was defined in the first degree programs offered via the TeleCampus:the MBA Online and the MEd in Educational Technology. Both were launched in the Fall of 1999.The MBA Online degree is conferred from any one of seven participating campuses, with eight campuses contributing courses to the degree plan. The MEd degree is conferred from UT Brownsville, with UT El Paso, UT Austin, UT Permian Basin, and UT Medical Branch at Galveston also providing courses toward the degree plan. The full list of collaboratives is listed below:

•MBA Online (UTA, UTB, UTD, UTEP, UTPA, UTPB, UTSA, UTT) •Master’s in Ed Tech (UTB, UT, UTEP, UTMB, UTPB, UTSA) •Master’s in Kinesiology (UTPB, UTSA, UTA, UTPA, UTT, UTEP) •Master’s in CS & Engineering – Three degrees (UTA, UTD) •GenEd (UTA, UT, UTB, UTPA, UTPB) •Bachelor’s Completion Program in Criminal Justice/ Criminology (UTA, UTPB, UTB, UTD) •Master’s in Technology/Human Resource Development (UTT, UTMB, UTPB)

The UT TeleCampus website has an increasing volume of traffic with each semester. The TeleCampus logs close to a million hits and more than 17,000 unique users and visitors each month. When the TeleCampus opened its virtual classroom doors in Fall 1999 there were 189 enrollments. In Fall 2000 enrollments exceeded 1,000 across half a dozen programs, in Fall 2001 the TeleCampus supported more than 2,000 enrollments, and Fall 2002 saw over 2500 students enrolled.

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Weatherford College Wilma Edmiston Director of Distance Education 817-598-6413 [email protected]

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2. Weatherford College Hill College, Tarrant County College, and North Central Texas College are partners in a collaborative with the Education Service Center in Region 11. This partnership entails providing two-way instruction to our area high schools. This is our third year to do this and it is very successful.

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Western Texas College Jim Palmer Dean of Academic Instruction [email protected] 915-573-8511 x 238

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2. VCT-all public 2 year colleges in the state West Texas Telecommunications Consortium all public schools in Education Region 14 Hendricks Hospital ACU HPU McMurray U. HSU West Texas Tech Prep TSTC Southwestern Bell and possibly a few others. Providing instructional content to area schools ITV training etc. Region 15 Consortium and Region 17 as well. Same as above with the exception that these consortia or limited to public school districts. We are also a member of SCATE which is now defunct. We are also members of TexShare Library Consortium

3. SCATE mentioned above.

Wharton County Junior College Dale Pinson Distance Education Coordinator [email protected] 979 532-6324

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2. DL collaboratives between WCJC and: • 1. UTMB/Galveston-Medical Lab program • 2. Fort Bend County Library System • 3. Northside Center/El Campo-ITV CE courses • 4. Ten service area ISDs-Duel credit college courses • 5. Reg. III (Regional Service Center)-cross-connect networks • 6. University of Houston System

3. All collaboratives are still functional.

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Samples of Collaboration in Texas

The Virtual College of Texas The entity known as the Virtual College of Texas is itself a collaborative, which became operational in the 1998 fall semester. Its members are the fifty community college districts/systems of Texas and the Texas State Technical College System. It is governed by the Texas Association of Community Colleges. To date, 90% of the districts/systems have participated in VCT. Over 2,000 individual classes have been delivered, and enrollments to date total approximately 8,700.

As a collaborative, VCT has served as the catalyst for additional collaborative activity: “Internet Teachers at Every College” This Perkins-funded project was initiated by VCT and continues under the Direction of Mickey Slimp, Tyler Junior College. Over a period of three years, approximately a dozen colleges have collaborated to develop and deliver three levels of training on the development of web-based courses. Approximately 1,000 two-year faculty members have been served. The courses developed/delivered by those trained have impacted an estimated 40,000 enrollments.

Instructional Management and Testing Software This TIF-funded project granted 3-year WebCT and QuestionMark licenses for all Texas community colleges. Follow-on workshops for QuestionMark and other software, hardware and distance learning issues have been funded through Perkins grants.

"Texas Partners for Workforce Distance Learning" VCT initiated this Perkins-funded project, and it was directed by Temple College. Through the collaboration of a half-dozen or more faculty at multiple colleges, a 72-hour CE course (web and video) for Emergency Care Technicians has been developed, and CE needs-assessment research has been conducted.

Texas A&M University-Commerce Collaborative Projects

A&M-Commerce/Mesquite ISD Partnership Using a combination of off-campus, F2F and technology-mediated instruction, the university delivers courses and degrees to Mesquite ISD aides, teachers, and administrators. Includes shared facility and shared employment arrangements.

A&M-Galveston Teacher Education Initiative Using the Trans-Texas Video Network, the university delivers teacher education core courses to A&M-Galveston students. This initiative is targeted at addressing the critical teacher shortage areas in math and science.

A&M-Corpus Christi RN/BSN Program An initiative targeted at addressing the critical shortage of nursing professionals. Students would remain on the Commerce campus and complete coursework that is delivered through a combination of web-based and two-way interactive video modes. The two universities are also exploring the feasibility of an RN program delivered via distance learning.

Commerce Community Network (CCN) A TIF-funded project that connects the university, school district, public library, hospital, non-profit organizations, and city using broadband wireless technology.

East Texas Learning Interactive Network Consortium (ET-LINC) A partnership with the university, a rural telephone company, and eleven districts aimed at bringing broadband Internet access to Northeast Texas. Dual-credit courses have been provided to students in participating districts.

Electronic Teacher’s College A TIF-funded project focused on preparing online teacher preparation modules and on piloting the use of technology to improve university/school mentoring activities.

Northeast Texas Network Consortium (NETnet) NETnet is a state-owned wireless communications network linking 15 higher education facilities in Northeast Texas. Using telecommunications towers, microwave dishes, and advanced video conference classrooms, students and educators will have access to courses from community colleges, four-year universities, a technical college, and an academic medical center.

Region X Education Service Center A project that targets the delivery of school administrator and school librarian certification courses to students in the DFW region.

Region VIII Education Service Center A project focused on the delivery of dual-credit and other courses to students in Northeast Texas.

UT Tyler

East Texas NetNet NETnet is the collaborative effort of 15 colleges and universities to provide educational opportunities to rural east Texans. The NETnet telecommunications center is the distribution point for educational content ranging from collaborative master's degree plans to continuing medical education. Each member's NETnet MPEG classroom is connected by a wireless point-to-point digital microwave radio network. We also offer global ISDN dialing capabilities and a satellite dish for links. NETnet is linked to 15 colleges and universities, 17 K-12's, and 10 healthcare facilities. We currently have or will soon have access to all UT and A&M components in the state including TTVN, GSC Vidnet, and several regional service centers (VI, VII, and VIII).

University of Houston System Centers / UH System

CampusNet In order to serve our region by making higher education accessible, the four universities of the UH System collaboratively deliver over 40 degree and certificate programs by various forms of distance education. Programs are available face-to-face at off-campus locations (some single-institution locations, while others are MITC's) or by one of several electronic means (online, videoconferencing, PBS, cable, videotape), or by some combination of these modes.

Using each institution's program strengths, deans establish "lead" (degree-granting) institutions and "support" campuses. Protocols and procedures have been established: duplication is generally avoided; lead institutions determine accepted offerings. Collaborating departments plan three-year rotations, and lead institutions list support courses in their schedules and accept ("partnered") courses from support institutions as their own. Teaching institutions receive the tuition and fees, plus the semester credit hours for formula. Some service delivery is shared, including library support. Students seamlessly register for courses from multiple universities within the system and at all times follow the rules for their "home campus." Specific steering and support committees within the UH System guide this process.

At the two UH System teaching centers (MITC's) established in 1994 and 1999, the freshman/sophomore courses are delivered by designated community college partners (Houston Community College-Northwest at UHS at Cinco Ranch, and Houston Community College-Southwest and Wharton County Junior College at UHS at Sugar Land).

The University Center (The Woodlands) UH and UH-Downtown are two of six partners in a MITC (planning began in 1993) in far north Houston; the other partners are Praire View A&M, Texas A&M, Sam Houston State University, and Texas Southern University, with Montgomery College (part of the North Harris Montgomery Community College District) providing freshman and sophomore programs. University representatives make up a council that determines policies at the MITC. Cross-enrollment occurs to a limited extent, but is not yet seamless for the students (although we are working toward this).

Corporate Outreach Program As part of our regional corporate outreach, we have designed specific degree tracks with combinations of partners to provide desired programs in corporate settings. (Example: for a west-Houston area Citigroup call center, we have arranged two tracks. One begins with applied business programs from Houston Community College System, leads into a Technology, Leadership and Supervision degree with UH, and then to an MBA with UH- Victoria. A second track begins with the academic associate's degree from HCCS, leads to a BBA from UH-Downtown, and then to an MBA (with credit for the initial year of study) from UH-Victoria. Advisors from all programs provide regular orientation sessions for the Citigroup employees.

Other collaborative projects (not complete degree programs):

PBS/Texas Public Broadcasting Educational Network Grants UH System is currently collaborating with TWU (Houston) on creating digital learning objects for an archive on Women's Health to be housed within the new PBS digital network. UH System is also building a similar program for a statewide archive on a variety of topics, with the intention of creating an eventual base for shared digital delivery of programs across the state.

Gulf Coast Education Network UH System and all 10 community colleges/systems in our region are connected via a high-speed network called the Gulf Coast Education Network. We are currently working on shared uses and applications for this network.

The University of Texas – Pan American

The project with Laredo CC is the development of an Articulation Agreement. We have had wide-ranging discussions with LCC administrators which may have included some mention of distance learning. I cannot remember that aspect, but we're awaiting LCC's response to our proposals. And excited about the possibilities!

We have recently signed DL and Concurrent Enrollment agreements with Hebbronville, Hidalgo, Lyford, and San Isidro ISDs. (These are schools that are somewhat remote from our campus, and wanted to be involved in our Concurrent enrollment program.) We're currently offering Concurrent Enrollment courses to students at these schools. Except for these students who are studying with us via Interactive Video, most of our nearly 1,000 Concurrent Enrollment students take courses on our campus.

The Concurrent Enrollment program is more than just offering courses. We sign an agreement with the high schools which allow their students to take our courses. The students may receive reimbursement for one-half their tuition if they complete the course with a "B" or better grade. If the school district pays for their students' tuition, then the district receives the reimbursement.

We have also signed a "Dual Admissions" agreement with Coastal Bend Community College, with the hope of offering DL classes there in Alice and Beeville. We have not yet identified the DL classes which we may offer.

We're also teaching courses in Rio Grande City. And we're working on a permanent site for our university in Rio Grande City. We will offer programs of study there, beginning with teacher education programs. Some of these may be thru DL technology, but most will be taught by professors in person.

The University of North Texas

1) A joint Master's Program in Rehabilitation Counseling offered online. The institutions involved are Georgia State University, San Diego State University and UNT. SDU and UNT offer ½ the courses each and GSU is a consumer. The students obtain the degree from either SDU or UNT.

2) UNT School of Library and Information Sciences is part of a consortium of nine universities each developing one course in the area of school librarianship to license to other programs. UNT has developed Youth Literature and is licensing it to Valdosta State University. We also have advertised our Storytelling course.

3) The Gifted and Talented Education Certificate Program is licensed across Texas through the Masters Online Corporation.

UT TeleCampus – The University of Texas System

The UT TeleCampus is a service-driven, central support system for online education initiatives among the 15 UT System universities and research facilities. Our online courses and degree programs can be completed entirely at a distance and meet the same high-quality academic standards as their on-site equivalents. The UT TeleCampus provides extensive student services in addition to online learning opportunities.

Today the UT TeleCampus houses seven master ’s degrees, undergraduate curriculum, certificate programs and a bachelor ’s completion program. Though its focus is online degrees, the TeleCampus also supports several other courses (not part of a fully-online degree) in medicine and allied health, in addition to a growing menu of independent academic courses. As a service to our campuses, the TeleCampus site also posts a searchable database of all distance education courses System-wide, regardless of delivery format.

To support the development of the online programs, the UT TeleCampus provides funding for course development, in addition to providing specialized training to UT faculty teaching online via the TeleCampus. Extensive support services are provided by TeleCampus staff including instructional design, student services, technological support, policy, marketing research, and external communications. The UT TeleCampus website has an increasing volume of traffic with each semester. The TeleCampus logs close to a million hits and more than 17,000 unique users and visitors each month. When the TeleCampus opened its virtual classroom doors in Fall 1999 there were 189 enrollments. In Fall 2000 enrollments exceeded 1,000 across half a dozen programs, in Fall 2001 the TeleCampus supported more than 2,000 enrollments, and Fall 2002 saw over 2500 students enrolled. 1. Contact Information: Please provide your name, title, institution, email and phone number.

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3. Please list and provide a short (2-3 sentences) description of all successful distance education-related collaboratives you have been involved with over the

past five years (include partners).

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5. For those distance education-related collaboratives that were successful, what were the advantages/incentives/benefits that made the project or program work?

Check all that apply.

Response Response

Percent Total Revenue 53.7% 36 generation Income stream for faculty 17.9% 12 member(s) Faster 40.3% 27 development and deployment of project or program Cost of program development is 31.3% 21 reduced considerably Leveraging buying power for licensed 35.8% 24 software and materials Wider variety of courses can be 73.1% 49 offered Faculty resources (the balance between teaching and 32.8% 22 research) can be used most efficiently Enhances faculty 9.0% 6 recruitment and retention efforts Encourages faculty to adapt their roles to meet the 59.7% 40 changing demands of learners Fosters faculty collaboration 56.7% 38 with colleagues Fosters faculty collaboration 19.4% 13 with private industry Creates more 31.3% 21 seamless transition from community college/technical school to colleges and universities (easier transfer of credits) Assists the state in meeting the 53.7% 36 Closing the Gaps goals Reduces duplication of 46.3% 31 courses Direct cost 29.9% 20 savings Shared 28.4% 19 marketing costs Cost avoidance 20.9% 14 Savings in hardware costs through centralized 29.9% 20 hosting of strategic software programs Time or cost savings in the 23.9% 16 training of instructors Increase in 71.6% 48 enrollments Increase in 50.7% 34 admissions Sharing creative teaching 46.3% 31 methods & best practices Sharing design 35.8% 24 models Improved student support (such as 24x7 31.3% 21 technical support that is centralized) Higher levels of intellectual property -- 20.9% 14 possibly moving toward reusable learning objects Provision of more online 55.2% 37 programs Leveraging buying power for licensed 29.9% 20 software and materials Collectively salvage critial programs that are individually 13.4% 9 experiencing shrinking enrollments Time savings by avoiding duplication of 31.3% 21 effort in designing curriculum Greater access to educational opportunities for students in 82.1% 55 your geographic region Other (please 14.9% 10 specify) Total Respondents 67 (skipped this question) 1

6. For those distance education-related collaboratives that were not successful, what were the barriers that made the project or program fail? Check all that apply.

Response Response

Percent Total Performance benchmarks were based on individual institutional 3.8% 1 performance (as opposed to the collaborative as a whole) Focus was on degrees and courses, rather than learning 7.7% 2 pathways Articulation of courses across 19.2% 5 institutions Incompatible technology 42.3% 11 infrastructures Varying tuition and fees 23.1% 6 Inter-institutional registration 15.4% 4 procedures and processes Lack of/outdated intellectual 3.8% 1 property policies Lack of a commercial license 7.7% 2 template and policy Upper administration did not keep the issue of collaboration 11.5% 3 at the forefront of discussion "Not invented here" syndrome 23.1% 6 got in the way of collaboration Lack of quality courseware 7.7% 2 available for licensing Lack of compatibility between 3.8% 1 major Web platforms Lack of statewide portal for access to students' academic 19.2% 5 records Course scheduling 38.5% 10 Student advising 19.2% 5 Faculty workload reporting 15.4% 4 No resources available to provide for development support (release time, technical 19.2% 5 support, instructional design support, etc.) Unfamiliarity with collaborative 38.5% 10 procedures/roles/responsibilities Colleges/universities not interested in offering single 7.7% 2 courses to public schools Change in personnel 7.7% 2 Other (please specify) 38.5% 10 Total Respondents 26 (skipped this question) 42

Institution Collaborative Name Other Participants Types of Participants Types of Delivery Public Dual Courses Cont Ed/ Other Comm. Purchasing/ Univ. HRI CTC Ed Nat'l Int'l Other Credit Only Program Training Delivery Network Marketing Licensing Virtual College of Texas (VCT) CTCs 11 UT TeleCampus UT System institutions 1 all Texas higher education SREB Electronic Campus institutions, potentially 11 1 Texas Collaborative for Teaching Excellence Tyler Jr. C 1 1 all Texas higher education TexShare institutions 1 1 1 TSL 1 Texas Consortium for Educational Telecommunications Dallas CCCD (TCET) numerous CTCs 1 1 group buys CTCs, Universities, ISDs, Health- Northeast Texas Insts. NETNET Related Institutions 11 1 1 Southwest Conference for Advanced Technological Angelo State U Education 1 Angelo State U Criminal Justice Prog UTPB 1 1 Amarillo C Nursing Video Database 1 Austin Laredo Blinn Navarro Texas Educational Streaming TSTC Waco South Plains Austin CC Media Collaborative (TESMC) Brazosport. 1 1 Austin CC AAS in Medical Lab St. Phillips Del Mar & Tyler 11 Austin CC Dual credit 11 1 Baylor COM Health Centers 1 1 1 patient education Baylor COM Continuing Medical Education U of Michigan 11 1 Baylor COM Alternative Teacher Cert TAMU 11 1 teacher cert Blinn C Interactive Video Partnership 11 1 1 Central Tx C InfoNET 11 1 Central Tx C BellNET 11 11 Donley County Community Clarendon C Network 11 1 Coastal Bend C Nursing Bridge Project Del Mar C 11 Dallas CCCD Navy College Partnership 11 11 Dallas CCCD Course Leasing Out 11 Dallas CCCD Course Importation 11 Dallas CCCD STARLink 1 1 Dallas CCCD TeleLearning People 1 1 Marketing Del Mar C Nursing Bridge Project Coastal Bend C 1 El Paso CC Dual credit 11 1 El Paso CC Paraprofessional Teacher Ed 11 1 El Paso CC Mexico Coll 11 Frank Phillips C Telecourses Amarillo & Clarendon 11 Hill C CTEN ISDs & ESC 11 1 Hill C RETN ISDs & ESC 11 1 Houston CC VCT, TCET cited above Howard C REACH UTPB 11 1 Howard C VIDNET high schools 11 1 Howard C UNIDOS Midland C, Odessa C 1 Howard C West Texas Training Center Angelo SU 11 1 Kilgore C Teacher Ed SFASU, ISDs 111 1 Kilgore C Community Networking Grant 11 1 Lamar-PA IT Lamar-Org 11 Lamar-PA Dual credit ISDs 11 1 Lamar U SETTEN ISDs/Angelina C 111 11 Lamar U LINC ISDs 11 1 Lamar U INVEST TxSc Deaf 11 11 Laredo CC Allied Health Continuing Ed UTHSCSA 111 1 Laredo CC Dual credit ISDs 11 1 Institution Collaborative Name Other Participants Types of Participants Types of Delivery Public Dual Courses Cont Ed/ Other Comm. Purchasing/ Univ. HRI CTC Ed Nat'l Int'l Other Credit Only Program Training Delivery Network Marketing Licensing McLennan CC Telecourses Tarleton SU, UTA, UTMBG 11 1 1

McLennan CC CTEN ESC, ISDs, hospitals, libraries 111 1 McLennan CC Dual credit area HSs 11 1 MSU Nursing Collaborative TTUHSC 11 1 MSU Universities Center at Dallas UNT/UTD/TWU/ TAMUC/UTA 11 1 MSU College Courses Ranger C, ESC 111 1 MSU Dual credit ISDs 11 1 MSU TCTCG UNT and others 1 1 Testing MSU Physics Consortium TaSu/WTAMU 1 1 Navarro C Hill-Navarro Consortium ISDs 11 1 Navarro C EdNet 10 VN TAMUC/Reg X 111 1 N Cen Tx C Project Uplink Collin CCC 1 1 N Cen Tx C ITV UNT 11 1 N Cen Tx C Classrooms in Community Collin CCC 11 N Cen Tx C Inter-campus Connection NCTC campuses 11 UH/Montgery C/ University NHMCCD Project LEAD Center 11 1 Odessa C Interactive Video Partnership ISDs 11 1

Panola C East Central Education Network ISDs 11 1 Panola C NorthEast Texas Network SFASU 1 1 Family/Consumer Sci Teacher SHSU Coll TEA-under development 1 1 VCT/SCT Banner/Blackboard San Jacinto C Smarthinking ? SW Tx Jr C Dual credit ISDs, ESCs 11 Reg hospitals/univ/Middle Rio SW Tx Jr C ITV Grande Dev Council 1111 Family & Consumer Science SWTSU Texas Alliance 11 Other Universities 1 11 SWTSU Social Work Program UHV - ran for 5 yrs, no longer 1 1 St. Philip's C Dual credit ISDs 11 St. Philip's C University Programs TAMU/TAMUK 11 1 St. Philip's C Radiography Tech Program SW Tx Jr C 11 1 SFASU Master's Programs UTHCT 11 1 SFASU Project Vision 20 ESC/five states 111 SFASU FCS Alliance 11 univ 111 1 SRSU Shared Programs UTPB/Odessa C/area HSs 111 1 SRSU Dual credit 6 ISDs 11 1 SRSURGC Shared Courses 3 campuses 1 1 SRSURGC Math Course Sharing SRSU 1 1 SRSURGC Mental Health Education UT System 11 1 1 TaSU Doc@a Distance TAMUC/TAMU 1 1 TaSU Computer-based Testing UNT 1 TaSU Community Networking Grant City of Gatesville 11 1 TaSU Community Networking Grant Coleman County 11 1 TaSu TTVN TAMU 1 TaSU Degree Programs McLennan CC 11 1 TaSu Degree Programs Weatherford CC 11 1 TaSU Physics Consortium TAMUK 1 1 Tarrant CCD Educational Collaboration ESC 11 1 Temple C Dual Credit ISDs 11 Temple C DCCCD Consortium DCCCD 11

TAMU Agricultural Education Doctorate TTU 1 1 TAMUC/Mesquite ISD TAMUC Partnership Mesquite ISD 11 1 Institution Collaborative Name Other Participants Types of Participants Types of Delivery Public Dual Courses Cont Ed/ Other Comm. Purchasing/ Univ. HRI CTC Ed Nat'l Int'l Other Credit Only Program Training Delivery Network Marketing Licensing TAMUC Teacher Ed Core TAMUG 1 1 TAMUC RN to BSN program TAMUCC 1 1

TAMUC Commerce Community Network Library, hospital, city, non-profits 11 1

East Texas Learning Interactive TAMUC Network Consortium (ET-LINC) phone company and ISCs 11 11 TAMUC Electronic Teacher's College Mentoring online modules 1 1 TAMUC NETnet 15 higher ed ins 11 1 1

TAMUC Ed Adm & Librarian Certificates ESC 11 1 TAMUC Dual credit TEA/ESC 11 1 TAMUG Teacher Ed Core TAMUC 1 1 Texas Electronic Coalition for TAMUK/WTAMU/TaSU/ TAMUK Physics TAMUCC/ 1 1 TAMUSHSC Master of Public Health 7 locations 11 1 1 Texas State University SysteOnline Certification courses TSUS universities 1 1 TSU University Center, NHMCCD MITC members 11 1 TSU Collegis Testing Center TTU Doc@a Distance TAMU 1 11 TTU Interactive Writing TTU Partnership K-12 schools 1 TTU Reach Across Texas SFA/Tx Sc for Blind 111 TTU SFA 1 1 Family/Consumer Sci Education TTU Alliancel TEA/10 univ-see description) 11 1 TTU GPIDEA (10 univ.-see description) 1 1 TTU Tx Engineering Consortium (9 univ-see description) 1 1

TTU SCATE (10 institutions-see description) 11 1 TTU Western Governor's Univ 1 1 TTUHSC/Amarillo online grad course 1 1 Tyler Jr. C VCT Internet Teachers at Every Tyler Jr. C College 1 1 Tyler Jr. C NETnet 15 higher ed ins 11 1 1 Tyler Jr. C MedLab Collaborative 4 colleges 1 Tyler Jr. C ET-LINC EastTx College/Partnership 11 1 Tyler Jr. C SuperNet area HSs 11 Tyler Jr. C ESC7 Regional Network area colleges 11 Tyler Jr. C LAAP TX/NJ/OR 1 1 UH 2+2 program CC in Gulf Coast Area 11 UH Delivery of Programs UC Woodlands 1 1 UH Delivery of Programs MD Anderson/UT/BCOM 1 1 UH Tx Based Testing UH Teach Education TAMU 1 UH Women's Health Info TWU UH Educational Leadership ISD's in Houston area 1 UH Master's in Teaching Katy ISD UH Nursing UT/UH 1 UH-Clearlake Just started w/ UHCL UH-Clearlake Becker CPA Review A System Ctr to fulfill degree UH Sys -SL,CL,Vic/WCJR/HCC- UH-Downtown requirements SW 1 1 A System Ctr to fulfill degree UH at Cinco Ranch/UH CL, UH-Downtown requirements Vic/HCC 1 1 SH/PVAMU/TSU/TAMU/UH/NHM UH-Downtown Deliver Upper Div Courses CCD 1 1 Institution Collaborative Name Other Participants Types of Participants Types of Delivery Public Dual Courses Cont Ed/ Other Comm. Purchasing/ Univ. HRI CTC Ed Nat'l Int'l Other Credit Only Program Training Delivery Network Marketing Licensing UH Sys Dis Ed/Campus NetDelivery of Dist Ed Programs UH System 11 UC Woodlands/UH/UH Downtown/PVAMU/TAMU/SHSU UH Sys Dis Ed/Campus NetMITC /TSU 1 combination of partners - UH Sys Dis Ed/Campus NetOutreach Program Citigroup, HCCS, UH-Vict UH Sys Dis Ed/Campus NetWomen's Health Info PBS/TWU-Houston 1

UH Sys Dis Ed/Campus NetGulf Coast Education Network Community Colleges in Region SLIS Cooperative Master's UNT Program TWU 1 1 UNT Master's Degree-Jerusalem 1 1

Rehabilitation Counseling Georgia St Un/San Diego St U UNT Cooperative Master's Program and UNT 1 UNT Youth Literature courseware Valdosta St Univ in Georgia 1 Law Enforcement Training UNT Criminal Justice Prog Network 11 UT Brownsville UT TeleCampus UTTC 1 UT Brownsville MBA Online UTTC 1 UT Dallas MBA Online UTTC 1 1 UT Dallas CS/EE Online UTTC 1 UTEP AN-MSI Minority serving institutions 1 high schools in San Antonio/S UTSA College 101 Texas 1 East Texas Interactive UTHC at Tyler Healthcare Network instititutions 1 1

UTHSC-Houston Nursing Continuing Education 11 Moncrief Cancer Radiation Ctr in Radiation Therapy and Medical FW/TAMu College of UTMD Anderson Cancer Ct Dosimetry Medicine/UTMB 1 1 McLennan CC/Wharton UTMB Galveston Clinical Laboratory Science Co/SFASU 1 UTMB Galveston Nuclear Medicine Scott and White Hospital 1 UTMB Galveston Intro into Research UT Brownsville 1 1

UTMB Galveston Physician Assistant Curriculum UTPA 11 UTMB Galveston Web-Based Program Lee College 11 UTMB Galveston Distance Outreach Site Wilford Hall Medical Center UTMB Galveston Medical Spanish Elective Stephen F. Austin 1 1 Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Scott and White Hospital/UTA UTMB Galveston Program SON 1 1

UT Permian Basin Kinesiology Online Six UT component universities 1 11 Hispanic Educational U New Mexico/ U Puerto Rico/ UTPanAm Telecommunications System City U of New York 1 1 UT System Administration Online Education Initiative 15 UT System universities 1 1 Weatherford College Two-Way Instruction Hill College, TCC, NCTC 11 91 20 70 39 3 1 16 0 26 65 29 17 3 7 1 3 THECB > Distance Education > Critical Issues

Critical Issues Facing Distance Education in Texas

Critical Issues Team 2 Distance Education Collaborative Content/Program Efforts

Darcy Hardy, Team Leader Assistant Vice Chancellor & Director of UT TeleCampus The University of Texas System 210 W. 6th Street, Suite 2.100 Austin, TX 78701-2981 PHONE: 512-499-4207 FAX: 512-499-4735 MOBILE: 512-632-8306 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Phil Turner Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs for Distance Education University of North Texas P. O. Box 311068 Denton, TX 76203-1068 PHONE: 940-565-2731 FAX: 940-565-3101 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Ron Thomson Director, Virtual College of Texas Austin Community College Pinnacle Campus 7748 Highway 290 West Austin, Texas 78736 PHONE: 512-223-8030 FAX: 512-223-8988 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Sandy Frieden Executive Director of Distance Education/Campus Net University of Houston System at Cinco Ranch

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4242 South Mason Road Katy, Texas 77450 PHONE: 281-395-2800 ext. 6015 FAX: 281-395-2629 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Adrianna Lancaster Associate Director The University of Texas at Arlington 1022 UTA Blvd. Arlington, Texas 76019-0197 PHONE: 817-272-5727 FAX: 817-272-5728 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Alecia Wolf The University of Texas Health Center - Tyler Northeast Texas Consortium PHONE: 903-877-7641 FAX: E-MAIL: [email protected]

John Edwards The University of Texas - Pan American VP for Enrollment and Student Services PHONE: (956) 381-2147 Ext.2147 FAX: E-MAIL: [email protected]

Jeannette Hartshorn The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Associate Dean for Academic Administration PHONE: 409-772-7311 FAX: 409-747-1519 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Rob Robinson UTTC Associate Director PHONE: 512-499-4207 FAX: 512-499-4735 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Bud Joyner Amarillo College

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P. O. Box 447 Amarillo, Texas 79178 PHONE: 806-371-5123 FAX: E-MAIL: [email protected]

Mary Hendrix Texas A&M Commerce Interim VP for Academic Affairs PHONE: 903-886-5021 FAX: E-MAIL: [email protected]

Gail Weatherly and Randy McDonald Office of Instructional Technology Stephen F. Austin State University P. O. Box 13038 Nacogdoches, TX 75962 Phone: 936-468-1818 Fax: 936-468-1308 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Randy Schormann Associate Dean-Instructional Innovation McLennan College Phone: 254-299-8510; or 254-299-8378 Fax: E-mail: [email protected]

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Attendees: Darcy Hardy, Rob Robinson, John Edwards, Adrianna Lancaster, Alecia Wolf, Ron Thomson(Janet Beinke and Roger Alford - THECB) Not Attending: Randy McDonald, Gail Weatherly, Sandy Freiden, Mary Hendrix, Phil Turner

The group welcomed Ron Thomson to the task force.

In order to have more community college representation on the task force, Darcy will be contacting Randy Schormann from McLennan CC to join us.

Reports from the Subcommittees: *********************** Cost and other types of savings from collaboration (Rob, Adrianna, Randy, and Gail): The group agreed that the "cost-savings" section should be expanded to include other benefits of collaboration. Some Possible Benefits: * Direct cost-savings: Spreading out development costs over multiple institutions; spreading out marketing costs; faculty costs(?). * In general we want to focus on those things where costs can be divided, OR where each institution does not have to go off on their own to get something done ("don't re-invent the wheel") * We can include such things are time-to-market advantages of collaboration; cost-avoidance (re- use of content across course, maybe); revenue generation. * Key function of collaborative DE programs is increasing enrollments for each campus requiring a commensurate increase in admissions. * Increased enrollments - a collaborative effort may lead to an entire program that has a starting point and an ending point. This is a big draw for students. * Share creative teaching methods and design models (Best Practices) * Focus - coming together for a singular purpose provides focus to develop and deliver on a timeline * Improved student support - a collaborative may be able to share the cost of 24/7 support whereas a single entity may not have the resources * Higher levels of intellectual property; move toward development of learning objects which may be shared * Provision of more online programs, which translates into greater access to education for students in Texas * Leveraging power to get better "group rates" on expensive software systems such as WebCT, electronic library databases, Smartthinking, etc. * Collectively salvage critical programs that are individually experiencing shrinking enrollments * Time savings by avoiding duplication of effort in designing curriculum * Time savings by reducing the length of time it takes to go from conceptualization to delivery of a program

Barriers to and Incentives for Collaboration (Mary Hendrix, Phil Turner, Alecia Wolf): During the past week Phil, Mary and Alecia have conducted literature reviews and researched existing material on barriers/incentives. To make the information more comprehensible, categories were devised specific to various levels: State, University, Program and Faculty. Tables were created for each level, with barriers in one column, incentives in another. To date, the bulk of the data gathered has focused on collaboration through the licensing and sharing of courseware, and targeted the State, University and Program levels. Our next phase of research will address videoconferencing and the training and support services required to adequately prepare faculty to participate in a collaborative endeavor.

Survey of Collaboratives and Best Practices (Darcy, John, Sandy): Through email discussions, Sandy raised the issue of too many surveys going out. This committee must develop a survey in order to get a handle on the number of collaboratives in existence. We suggest adding questions for the other groups to our survey.

The committee is also working on a definition of collaborative for the purpose of this project. So far, we have the following: two or more partners (could include non-education partners), electronic only, in-state only, must impact distance learning.

The committee will be meeting by audioconference in the next week or so to discuss categories of submissions once the survey goes out.

*********************** Darcy asked that each subcommittee meet and develop questions for the survey instrument, and to send those questions to her no later than Monday morning, December 2. Also, a reminder that the paper we submit in January will include things we have identified, not solved.

Next meeting is Monday, December 2 at 2:00. Please follow the same instructions as before.

Thanks,

-darcy ************************************************************ Darcy W. Hardy Assistant Vice Chancellor and Director UT TeleCampus The University of Texas System 210 W. 6th -- Suite 2.100, Austin 78701 512-499-4207 Fax: 512-499-4715 www.telecampus.utsystem.edu

Collaboration Survey

Collaboration Survey Exit this survey >> 1. Cover letter from Darcy Hardy for Collaborative Content Survey

Greetings!

As a manager or director of distance education programs on your campus, I am writing to ask for your assistance. Recently, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) developed a document that outlines critical issues we are now facing in distance education. The THECB Distance Education Advisory Committee (DEAC - http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/DistanceEd/) provided input on this document and will be involved as each critical issue is researched and then presented to the THECB in January.

As a result of the critical issues paper, five task forces were created to address the issues. I am chairing the task force that is looking at Distance Education Collaborative Content/Program Efforts.

Specifically, there is a need to explore how distance education partnerships can contribute to statewide higher education needs identified by state leaders. This task force is taking a strategic view of which issues and priorities could be positively impacted by the combined resources of DE providers in the state. It will communicate its finding with institutions and work to make partnerships happen as appropriate. The results of the survey will be made available to you in January.

Please take a moment to complete this brief survey no later than Thursday, December 19. It should not take you more than 20 minutes and we really need your input.

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Exit this survey Collaboration Survey >> 1. Purpose of this Survey The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has established four task forces to address critical issues in distance education. This particular survey was developed to help the Distance Education Collaborative Content/Program Efforts Task Force. Please take a moment to complete the survey. More information about the task forces may be found at http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/DistanceEd/CriticalIssues/.

For this survey, "collaborative" is defined as two or more partners of any educational level (partners may also include libraries and hospitals); electronic delivery (as opposed to face to face); and related directly to distance education.

All types of collaboratives meeting the above definition should be included (courses, programs, courseware, testing, professional development, etc.)

Please note that information submitted will not be confidential, and that we are seeking responses only from the adminstrator who is responsible for distance education on the campus. If you are not the appropriate person to respond to this survey, please forward it.

Thank you.

1. Contact Information: Please provide your name, title, institution, email and phone number.

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3. Please list and provide a short (2-3 sentences) description of all successful distance education-related collaboratives you have been involved with over the past five years (include partners).

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5. For those distance education-related collaboratives that were successful, what were the advantages/incentives/benefits that made the project or program work? Check all that apply. Revenue generation Income stream for faculty member(s) Faster development and deployment of project or program Cost of program development is reduced considerably Leveraging buying power for licensed software and materials Wider variety of courses can be offered Faculty resources (the balance between teaching and research) can be used most efficiently Enhances faculty recruitment and retention efforts Encourages faculty to adapt their roles to meet the changing demands of learners Fosters faculty collaboration with colleagues Fosters faculty collaboration with private industry Creates more seamless transition from community college/technical school to colleges and universities (easier transfer of credits) Assists the state in meeting the Closing the Gaps goals Reduces duplication of courses Direct cost savings Shared marketing costs Cost avoidance Savings in hardware costs through centralized hosting of strategic software programs Time or cost savings in the training of instructors Increase in enrollments Increase in admissions Sharing creative teaching methods & best practices Sharing design models Improved student support (such as 24x7 technical support that is centralized) Higher levels of intellectual property -- possibly moving toward reusable learning objects Provision of more online programs Leveraging buying power for licensed software and materials Collectively salvage critial programs that are individually experiencing shrinking enrollments Time savings by avoiding duplication of effort in designing curriculum Greater access to educational opportunities for students in your geographic region

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Other (please specify)

6. For those distance education-related collaboratives that were not successful, what were the barriers that made the project or program fail? Check all that apply. Performance benchmarks were based on individual institutional performance (as opposed to the collaborative as a whole) Focus was on degrees and courses, rather than learning pathways Articulation of courses across institutions Incompatible technology infrastructures Varying tuition and fees Inter-institutional registration procedures and processes Lack of/outdated intellectual property policies Lack of a commercial license template and policy Upper administration did not keep the issue of collaboration at the forefront of discussion \"Not invented here\" syndrome got in the way of collaboration Lack of quality courseware available for licensing Lack of compatibility between major Web platforms Lack of statewide portal for access to students' academic records Course scheduling Student advising Faculty workload reporting No resources available to provide for development support (release time, technical support, instructional design support, etc.) Unfamiliarity with collaborative procedures/roles/responsibilities Colleges/universities not interested in offering single courses to public schools Change in personnel Other (please specify)

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Critical Issues Facing Distance Education in Texas

Critical Issues Team 3 Regulatory and Accrediting Issues

Edward Hugetz, Team Leader Assistant Vice President Planning & University Outreach University of Houston 203 E. Cullen Building Houston, Texas 77204-2022 PHONE: 713-743-3419 FAX: 713-743-7899 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Tom Armstrong Professor Texas Wesleyan University 1201 Wesleyan St. Fort Worth, TX 76105-1536 PHONE: 817-531-4469 FAX: E-MAIL: [email protected]

LeAnn McKinzie Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Distance Learning Texas A&M University System John B. Connally Bldg, 7th Floor 301 Tarrow Drive College Station, TX 77840-7896 PHONE: 979-458-6420 FAX: 979-845-8695 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Gary Wiggins Vice President, Information Technology MS 2008 Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409

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PHONE: 806-742-5151 FAX: E-MAIL: [email protected]

Dr. G. Jack Allen Associate Executive Director Commission on Colleges Southern Association of Colleges and Schools 1866 Southern Lane Decatur, GA 30033 (404) 679-4501 ext. 524 FAX: 404-679-4558 E-MAIL: [email protected]

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Participating: Ed Hugetz (UH), Jack Allen (SACS), LeAnn McKinzie (TAMU System), Tom Armstrong (Texas Wesleyan), Janet Beinke (THECB), Roger Alford (THECB)

Summary of discussion with Jack Allen by topic:

Outcome measures and Quality: The Department of Education wants to move toward use of outcome measures. A recent study by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, with Lynne Cheney as a spokesperson, has examined this topic. Its report, Can College Accreditation Live Up to Its Promise?, is available at: http://www.goacta.org/Reports/accrediting.pdf . One criticism in the report is that accrediting agencies regulate themselves. Tom Armstrong mentioned that the University of Phoenix was instrumental in producing the report which is basically an attack on accreditation.

Jack Allen sees accreditation bodies as focusing on quality and efficiency while trying to preserve flexibility. The quality of distance education efforts is not questioned as much now as formerly. This is reflected in the elimination of separate distance education “must” statements as part of the 2004 revision of SACS standards.

Competing groups seems to have a non-specific concept of what quality is but are critical of existing efforts to measure it, but not have concrete recommendations about how to get at or determine it.

JA doesn’t think state mandates, like SPRE or the “No Child Left Behind” type movement in public education, are coming to higher ed.

Residency for Various Degree Levels: At the doctoral level, JA said a 30 hour residency is still required in the 2004 guidelines. [Note: Roger and I checked the 2004 Standards and found no mention of doctoral residency.]

For master’s programs, SACS interpreted its standard as requiring that 50% of the hours be awarded by the degree-granting institution. A request from the UT TeleCampus caused SACS to reassess this standard. Now, if an institution can show that it has a coherent program, more than 50% of the hours can be transferred in from a university consortium or system. [This is a part of the 2004 Standards: #19.]

For undergraduate programs, the expectation still is that 25% of the credits would be awarded by the institution awarding the degree, but JA says SACS is possibly headed for changes to this standard. Arrangements such as the Kentucky Virtual University might be treated as an institution. Texas arrangements like MITCs have something less than articulation but try to act like one institution even though the partners have separate accreditation. The Virtual College of Texas is another arrangement variation.

Principles of Good Practice: The POGP are viewed as an extension of SACS criteria. This is an important topic for Texas because our Institutional Plans are built around SACS standards. The DEAC’s efforts to build on the first round of Institutional Plans and to insure that quality is maintained could be useful to SACS.

International Distance Education Programs: SACS hasn’t received many requests for approval of international distance education programs, but it has reviewed some local affiliation agreements. For partnerships with foreign universities, the foreign institution needs to submit to a SACS review, in a process similar to the one used for an articulation agreement. Some institutions in the US do have affiliations with non- accredited Latin American institutions. JA didn’t say that this was a problem.

SACS does have responsibility for dealing with accreditation in Latin American. Only five universities in Mexico and one in Costa Rica have sought accreditation. All of these institutions are private.

DE-related Substantive Changes: With the 2004 changes, expansion of distance education won’t trigger the need for a substantive change unless the institution is proposing to do something radically different than it currently has approval to do on campus. The substantive change would then be related to the activity itself, not just to its distance aspects.

Currently, SACS needs to be notified if a program is offered 50% through distance education.

Biggest DE Problems Noted in SACS Reviews: Jack Allen cited the following problems: proctored test security, student support, assessment of DE programs (many institutions still use the same assessment forms as for traditional classrooms and don’t compare the results of DE and conventional classes), and library issues.

The mention of libraries prompted the observation that, without specific SACS “must” statements, it may be harder for services such as libraries to stake a claim on resources.

How Can Texas Advocate for Change?: The discussion identified the following specific tasks that Team 3 can undertake:

• Prepare suggested changes to SACS criteria to be presented to SACS along with rationale for the changes.

• Locate or help prepare a test case of an undergraduate articulation agreement for SACS. The proposed degree-granting institution would need to award less than 25% of the required credit hours. Kentucky VU is not ready to be a test case.

• Create a structure for licensing electronic material developed by Texas institutions, especially if the development was funded with TIF or other public funds.

• Work with Team 4 to develop ways to measure quality and prove that learning is occurring. This could be useful for Congressional hearings.

• (Not discussed: Janet’s suggestion) Develop standards or rules that Texas public institutions must meet if they want to partner with foreign institutions or if they want to offer degrees electronically outside the US. Critical Issues Team 3 Regulatory and Accrediting Issues