Knowledge Exchanges and Learning Partnerships: SPMA and Public Administration

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Knowledge Exchanges and Learning Partnerships
SPMA and Public Administration

• Maria Africa Beebe, Ph.D.
• Washington State Univ, Center to Bridge the
  Digital Divide and Program Advisor, Leland
  Initiative (USAID)

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Highlights

• Challenges faced by African Higher Education
  Institutions
• Vision for KELP
• Options for using KELP towards Africanising
  Public Administration (your turn)

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But first, some context

• Real GDP grew by 3.2 in 1999, up from 3.1 in
  1998.
• 4.3 in 2001
• 3.2 in 2003
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
  (UNECA) 2000

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Multiple Africas

• sustainable development countries advancing
  steadfastly, as in the case of Ghana, Uganda,
  Mozambique
• transition countries emerging from conflict or
  oppressive authoritarian rule and struggling to
  consolidate economic and political gains, as in
  the case of Nigeria
• countries stuck in conflicts that threaten fully
  one third of the continent

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Globalization trends

• Internationalization of trade, finance and
  corporate organization
• Internationalization of the worlds security
  system
• Rapid transformation of technology as evidenced
  by biotech and smarter computers
• New social movements with both a local and
  transnational consciousness

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Globalization

• Globalization is the intensification of worldwide
  social relations which link distant localities in
  such a way that local happenings are shaped by
  events occurring many miles away and vice versa.
• Giddens (1990)

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Implications of globalization on education and
training

• lifetime fluidity between school and work
• blurring of boundaries between disciplines
• just in time learning, and
• e-learning, online communities

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Factors that have isolated Africa
Policy Regulation Telcoms/ Edu
Human capacity
Infrastructure African ISPs
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African connectivity to the rest of the world
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Dial up Dial access costs
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BGP Geopolitical Analysis
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Highlights

• Challenges faced by African Higher Education
  Institutions
• Vision for KELP
• Options for using KELP towards Africanising
  Public Administration (your turn)

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Challenges faced by African Higher Education
Institutions

• Revitalizing to lead change
• Creating new forms of collaborative learning
• Using technology to improve research and teaching
  performance
• Meeting the needs of todays and tomorrows
  learners

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Response Knowledge Exchanges and Learning
Partnerships

• Africa to Africa
• Africa to US

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KELP Key Concepts

• Knowledge exchanges
• generation
• codification
• validation
• transfer

• Learning partnerships
• Africa-Africa-U.S.
• student to student,
• faculty to faculty
• researcher to student

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Objectives of KELP
Goalto increase the leadership role of African
and American institutions in sustainable
development

• KELP Objective To catalyze collective
  partnerships to achieve major improvements in
  African post-secondary institutions through--
• the integration of modern information,
  communication, and knowledge (ICK) technologies
  into the research, teaching, learning processes
• the increased flow of knowledge and experience
  between centers of learning in Africa and the
  United States.

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KELP Operating Principles

• African-led -- focus on the leadership role of
  African post-secondary institutions in
  sustainable development
• Mutual benefit -- apply lessons learned across
  borders what Africans and Americans have to
  offer to each other
• Shared objectives
• Integration of ICK technologies into the
  research, learning, and teaching processes --
  complement face to face with technology mediated
  learning
• Joint knowledge generation, codification, and
  transfer -- engender multiple-level partnerships
  and collaborative relationships (research
  centers, technikons, universities, NGOs)
• Content/Subject matter -- emphasize sustainable
  development subject areas -- environment, NRM,
  sustainable agriculture, public policy,
  development information
• Policy dialogue -- engage African and American
  partners

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Development Hypothesis

• Increased benefits to society
• Increased institutional capacity
• to lead in sustainable development
• Improved student performance

Integration and use of instructional
technology in research and learning by students
KELP
Professional staff development
Course content Development
Partnerships Development
Policy responses
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KELP at SPMA
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Goal Improved student performance

• Student-centered inquiry-based learning
• Improved higher order thinking and research
  skills
• will result from--
• Access to greater information resources
• Collaborative learning experiences to develop
  teamwork, communication, problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate with other students and
  teachers outside the school

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• Course content development
• African content transformed
• to pedagogically-sound digital resources
• Internet CD-ROM
• Videos Print

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Professional development

• Instructional technology
• Online course
• management

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Levels of technology professional development

• Entry
• Adoption (technology to support traditional
  instruction)
• Adaptation (to enrich the curriculum)
• Appropriation (technology for unique
  capabilities)
• Invention (new learning environments
  learner-centered, collaborative, interactive,
  customized)

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Public/private partnerships functioning

• Education/education
• Business/education
• Community/education
• Government/education
• Multidisciplinary

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Policy responses to globalonline education

• Cross-listing of courses
• Reciprocity agreements
• Joint teaching
• Joint certificates
• Joint degrees

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GOAL Improved academic performance
Joint online course delivery IND enrollments in
online courses
Joint certificates degrees IND certificates
awarded
Objective Integration and use of instructional
technology in post-secondary research, teaching
and learning increased INDICATOR STUDENTS
INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN THEIR LEARNING
ACTIVITY
KELP
Professional development IND STAR stage of
professional development by participant
faculty ACTIVITY training in instructional
technology and online course management ??
MentorNet
Public/private partnerships developed and
functioning IND existing partnerships with new
provisions new partnerships formed ACTIVITIES
Africa-Africa-US linkages Joint knowledge
generation study tour
Supportive policies implemented -Reciprocity
agreements -Cross-listing of courses -On-line
course enrollment standards INDIncidence of
established course standards, new course
listings ACTIVITIES KELP Working Group Baseline
studies
African course content transformed to
pedagogically-sound digital resources IND of
existing courses transformed of new courses
developed ACTIVITY Online course development
KELP Assumptions Enabling environment,
university strategic plan in place, ICK
technologies part of strategic plan, university
administration computerized, modicum of hardware
and connectivity and ICK technologies support
system in place
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GOAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK (For Discussion
Purposes)
SAFPUM NAPISASAAPAM SAMDI Organized
Business Local, Provincial, National
Governmental Bodies Office of Status of Disabled
Persons
University of the North University of Fort
Hare University of Durban-Westville University of
Western Cape University of Witswatersrand Universi
ty of Botswana University of Zimbabwe Other KELP
Partners

• Policy for online education
• Internationalizing curricula
• Faculty and student exchange
• Shared multimedia for collaborative learning
• Cross-listing of courses
• Joint certificates/degrees
• Tuition

• e-Mentors
• Discussion forums
• On-line guest lectures
• Face-to-face Internships
• Online peer-reviewed
• journals

• Develop online curriculum and course
• content for a Center for Energy
• and Environment Policy
• Share faculty via distance learning
• Audio/Video conferencing between
• faculty and student groups
• Email among faculty and student groups

• Develop online curriculum and
• course content in Policy
• Management and Economics
• Share faculty via distance learning
• Audio/Video conferencing between
• faculty and student groups
• Email among staff and faculty
• Establish a Disabled Affairs Program

• Share faculty via distance learning
• Email/discussion forum among faculty and student
  groups
• Audio/Video conferencing between faculty and
  student groups
• Face-to-face faculty and student exchanges
• External examiners

• Develop online curriculum and course content for
  MPA in Policy Studies

• Develop online curriculum and
• course content for certified Public Managers
  program

• Develop online curriculum and course content for
  Leadership Development

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Purpose to build capacity and exchange knowledge
in ICT policy and regulation
Peers (Other regulators)
REGULATOR(s)
Student
Network for Capacity-Building and Knowledge
Exchange in the Telecoms Sector
Technology
Academics Trainers Researchers
Content
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Content development and delivery
UNISA
1) Macro environment and implications
of telecommunications
6) Approaches to regulation Basic
principles Types of regulation Rate of return,
price cap, etc
Fort Hare
2) ICT Technologies Basic Tech
Principles Network planning Convergence/standards
dev
WITS
7) Univ access/quality of service user or univ
service/access consumer protection service quality
Botswana
AFRALTI
8) Service pricing tariffing price
flexibility cost measurement, etc
3) ICT Industry Markets Interconnection Fair
trade competition Licensing approvals
Zambia Makerere
9) Policy law and institutions stakeholder roles
respon admin procedures governance, etc
4) Provider resources allocations,
assignments, registration enforcement numbering,
naming, spectrum
UNISA
W Cape
10) ICT applications e-business e-government e-hea
lth e-education e-.
5) Financial analysis Project analysis cost of
capital accounting statement
DaresSalaam
DaresSalaam Makerere
TRASA NARUC
USAID, CTO, DFID, SIDA?, NORAD? ITU, DBSA,
African Connections
Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Washington State,
USTTI, FCC
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Key players and tasks
-Provide a mechanism to develop analytical
support papers
Develop directory website prospectus
-Overall Program Management -technical support
Develop standards
Coordinate reciprocal agreements/ Mutual
recognition
TRASA
-Financial management -Administer subcontracts
CBDD
Network Coordinator UDSM
Maintain databank of studies
Resource Partners FCC, NARUC USTTI
8 African training partners
5 US Training Partners
Develop module or course materials
Provide financial human resources
Assist with Masters Programs
Substantial engagement
Develop teaching and research programs
Offer certificate Masters programs
Assist with course modules development
Online collaboration teaching research
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Quality assurance challenges

• Quality assurance
• Institutional context and commitment
• Curriculum and instruction
• Faculty support
• Student support
• Evaluation and assessment

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Goal of eLearningconnection with ideas and with
each other

• Build learning communities that span the
• local and the global
• Add our byte towards e-Quality
• Make a difference in shaping the eLearning

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As global educators

• Provide leadership in how people and technology
  intersect
• Advocate for open access to knowledge, skills and
  ideas and make these available for everyone
• Balance commercial transaction with reciprocal
  exchanges
• Link learning communities Africa to Africa,
  Asia, Latin America, etc
• Use ICT to acquire and act on knowledge for
  sustainable development

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Africanising Public Administration

• Will SPMA play a leadership role by
• Generating new knowledge and making it accessible
  to the rest of Africa and the world?
• Contributing to human capital formation in public
  administration by collaborating, not just
  competing with other institutions?
• Providing its learners the leaders of today and
  tomorrow gthe foundation for leadership and
  governance?