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Academic Continuity

• Topic 4 Emergency and Pervasive ALN
• What have we learned from the Sloan Semester?
• What should Sloan-C be doing to prepare for
  another emergency?
• Presentations by
• Jon Links, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
• Don Spicer, University System of Maryland
• Burks Oakley, University of Illinois
• Bruce Chaloux, Southern Regional Education Board
• Shari McCurdy, University of Illinois at
  Springfield

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Jon Links, JHUSPH

• Continuity Of Operations Plan COOP
• An all-hazards approach natural disaster,
  man-made disaster, terrorist act, etc.
• Emergency management consists of
• Prevention/Mitigation
• Preparedness
• Response
• Recovery

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Jon Links, JHUSPH
Terrorist events Natural disasters Unintentional
man-made emergencies
are local. So is the response.
All
Preparedness for these different events is more
similar than different ? all hazards model
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Dual-Purpose Preparations for Pandemic Flu

• Focus on actions that enhance COOP
• These (usually) automatically enhance routine
  operations
• Spend money
• Mostly on enhancement of routine operations
• Then on all-hazards preparedness
• And only a bit on pandemic flu preparations
  specifically

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Preparedness for Educational COOPS at JHSPH

• Get more full courses online
• Add server and network capacity and redundancy
  (and dont forget additional software licenses)
• Train more students, staff, and faculty in
  preparing, delivering, and using online coursework

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Don Spicer, USM

• IT Infrastructure Support for Emergencies
• Katrina lessons learned
• Need for partner institution hundreds of miles
  away
• Preparing for pandemic flu
• Currently each of our institutions is creating
  such a plan
• Scenario---what if the Governor declares an
  emergency and closes down all public gatherings?
  Can we stay in business?

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Burks Oakley, U. of Illinois

• Sloan Semester

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Sloan Semester

• Online catalog listed 1,322 courses from 158
  institutions in 38 states
• Applications from 1,725 students
• 4,256 course seat requests, leading to 2,827
  enrollments by SloanSemester students over 3
  million in tuition waived by providing
  institutions
• 5,385 enrollments by native students
• 8,212 total enrollments

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Bruce Chaloux, SREB

• A Sloan Semester Postscript - Lessons Learned
  Now What?
• Eight Strategies the Higher Education Community
  Should Consider in Preparation for the Next
  (Inevitable) Disaster and a Challenge to Sloan-C

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First Four Strategies

• Develop academic emergency plans as facility/IT
  plans are being formulated
• Develop a plan for re-establishing institutional
  Web sitesfast
• Develop student continuation plansonline
  learning should be a key component
• Develop a set of guiding policies and obtain
  policy commitments.

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Next Four Strategies

• Establish and have ready online repositories of
  coursesjoin organizations
• Design an academic buddy system
• Once you have developed a disaster
  recovery/continuation plan, dont hide it!!!
• Establish a national emergency, back-up site

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A Challenge to Sloan-C

• Why dont we (Sloan-C) become the national
  emergency, back-up site
• Sloan911.org or Sloan411.org or ???
• Establish, collect and promote the site among
  national, regional, state groups and institutions
• Partner with vendors/providers to host the site
• Collect institutional plans, institutional web
  site backup sites, and other essential
  just-in-time information that can be at the
  ready
• Provide access to resources and services from
  national, regional, state, institutions

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Shari McCurdy, UIS

• Academic continuity and ALN at UIS
• http//www.uis.edu/emergency
• A page left up at all times prepped for .
• Emergency Response Plan
• Disaster Plan
• Chemical and Biological Threats
• UIS Police
• Illinois State Police
• National Weather Service

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Emergency ALN

• All PowerPoint presentations are available online
  at
• http//www.online.uillinois.edu/oakley/presentati
  ons/Sloan-C_SummerWorkshop_2006/

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Subsequent Sloan-C Workshop

• Online Learning in an Emergency Delivering the
  Curriculum When the Campus Is Closed
• New Orleans, Louisiana September 20-22, 2006
• Organized by Prof. Ray Schroeder, UIS
• Website at http//onlinelearningupdate.com/works
  hop.htm

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New Orleans Workshop
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Southern University
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Southern University
Inner Harbor Navigation Canal
SUNO Campus
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Workshop Output Goal 1

• To develop a series of online workshops to help
  colleges and universities across the country
  prepare for the delivery of their curricula
  online when emergencies -- such as hurricanes,
  earthquakes, terrorist acts, or epidemics --
  close the physical campus.

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Workshop Output Goal 2

• To develop a Sloan Consortium response center to
  assure that national resources are brought to
  bear to help colleges and universities in their
  efforts to deal with emergencies.
• Must feature dual-use activities.