ADEC

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ADEC

• e-learning, e-science, e-access anytime, anyplace

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ADEC

• Strategic Directions 2005

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Mission and Vision

• ADEC will provide affordable science based global
  access to higher education learning resources,
  programs, courses, degrees and research
  opportunities. E-Access, E-Learning, E-Science

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ADEC Strategic ThinkingFacilitator Roger
Caldwell

• Board of Directors Discussion on the new world,
  institutional change, and the role of ADEC in the
  next 5 years

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Four Driving Forces of Change

• Economic
• Increasing public and private debt, globalization
• Entitlement demands (SS, Medicare, Medicaid)
• Demographic
• First wave of baby boomers turn 62 in 2008
• Becoming more diverse, young, and old
• Technology
• Primarily IT materials, biology and their
  interactions
• Learning
• New places and methods, greater role for learner

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Four Institutional Challenges

• Living with increased competition and constrained
  state and federal funding
• Addressing new learners and methods of learning,
  more diversity, student access/cost
• Organizing internally for efficiency and
  effectiveness, encouraging innovation and
  external cooperation/collaboration
• Managing change overcoming institutional
  inertia cope with change

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Planning for a New Environment

• The future is a VUCA world U.S. Military
• Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous
• Our reaction is FAIR ADEC Think Tank
• Flexible, Agile, Innovative, Responsive
• ADEC strategic choices for next 5 years
• ADEC is the sum of the member institutions
• ADEC strengths are derived from the ability to
  focus and institutional cooperation

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Response to Katrina and Rita

• Member Requests
• Rapid Response
• Shared Credit

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Hurricane Effort

• http//www.adec.edu
• http//www.ihets.org
• http//chronicle.com

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ADEC Strategic Plan

• http//www.extension.iastate.edu/adecstrategicplan
  

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Strategic Initiatives

• Innovation research and development
• Human Capacity Workforce development and
  Commonwealth of Courses
• Digital Infrastructure

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Strategic Initiatives

• Global Science Education Programs
• Disaster Relief and Homeland Security

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Way to Accomplish

• Strategic Partnerships
• Member Driven Initiatives
• Organic/Virtual Organization and Infrastructure
• Fund Raising and Endowment

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ADEC Brief History

• 16 Years Old Non-Profit and LG University
• From AgSat to ADEC
• From 23 members to 60 members
• International DE Leader

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STRATEGIC PLANNING AND MARKETING

• Think Tank Collaboratory
• Professional Development and Capacity Building
• Informational Technology Research and Development

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FINANCING

• Membership-Dues Same Since 1994
• Grants and Contracts
• Miscellaneous Revenue
• New Programs and Services

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GRANTS

• NSF largest shared cyberinfrastructure program
  in their portfolio
• ADECnet
• Educational Effectiveness
• Tachyon, I2, Polycom, etc.

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ADEC AWARD PROGRAM

• 5000 cash award Excellence in Distance
  Education
• Webb-Godfrey-Hill Award
• All ADEC Meeting Educational and Technology
  Accomplishment

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SLOAN FOUNDATION

• Two current grants and two in process
• ADEC-Sloan partnership
• Sloan C Conference Orlando
• eArmyU CAM future of online learning in all
  military

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USDA

• Ag Telecommunications
• Partner with eXtension
• MOU with NAL and AgNIC member digital
  infrastructure
• Challenge Grant Virtual Field Trips

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Es

• E-Commerce E-Store
• E Answers
• E-Science
• E-Access

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ADEC WEBPAGE

• Heavy traffic worldwide use
• Moving to new content management system
• Member Services

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IDEAL3 DISTANCE ED POLICY

• Quality Database of Programs
• Surveying and Developing DE-eLearning Policy
• Module Development
• Digital Libraries

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CAPACITY BUILDING

• Educational Effectiveness community level,
  academic, youth, rural/remote, minority audiences
  what works and what doesnt
• Technology cutting edge cheaper, better,
  faster-new applications Internet based

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Global Partnerships Members

• IICA
• Central America
• University of Zamorano
• DR International Biotech Conf
• China, Africa, Asia