Background Since the beginning of 2012 the PVC
Office is responsible for cohering the following related capacities that need to be cohered, enhanced, and steered as we shape our pathway into the digital age:-
ICT Open Distance and e-Learning Procurement Open Education Resources (OERs) Academic Planning Organizational Architecture
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Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor
Academic Planning Accreditation PQM Community Engagement
ICT Planning and Governance ICT innovation and Business
Support Academic Systems Professionals and Administration
Systems Infrastructure and Operations
Procurement Demand and Acquisition Inventory Management Supplier and Contract
Management Travel and Accommodation
Management
Projects in the Office of the PVC
Signature Courses
OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES
REUSEREPRODUCEREDUCE
Visit Unisa Open Portal (www.unisa.ac.za/oer)
History of Unisa Project
The History of Unisa is a memory project which incorporates multi-media and both academic and popular writing components aimed at different audiences.
Futures Thinking Project
Illuminated changes in higher education, technology, OERs and society that impel organisational, curricular and individual change
Student diversity and its implications
Changing demands in the workplace – implications for graduateness
The state of the art in technological change at Unisa and anticipated trajectory
Our Organisational Architecture Journey
Road show 2012
The Goals of the Organisational Architecture
Create an organization that provides ongoing value to students and stakeholders, and fulfills its social mandate.
Align all aspects of Unisa technology, systems, processes and capacities.
To mitigate complexity – make transparent how the organisation is working, and where it is not – reengineer the organisation in line with strategy.
To develop agility to deal with new challenges. Optimize performance in all departments.
LOW ROADLegacy – low touchPrint / manualService delivery efficiency challengesMonolithicSlow and lumberingLow satisfaction
HIGH ROADAgilityTech richCapability – efficiencyHigh touchHigh satisfaction High success, retention
Key Challenges to Dept. Key Challenges to Dept. ManagementManagement
Student diversity Learning mediation Assessment PQM viability Use of technology New staff capacity
Digital literacy Graduateness for the digital age New degree structures International benchmarking and
accreditation
Capacities for the Digital
Age
Making the Digital Leap…into the future
What makes the shift to digital possible?
Convergence of tech maturity, broadband access, maturity of software solutions,
Infrastructure capabilities within Unisa A moment of possibility as the university
contemplates the future. Years of commitment to be an ODeL
university – acceptance if not complete buy-in – impetus of mission
Rethinking graduateness Positive reception of OA discussion
document and VC’s roundtable on Business Model
Using ICT in Learning Environments
1. Learning about ICT - exploring what can be done with ICT.
2. Learning with ICT -
using ICT to supplement normal processes or resources.
3. Learning through ICT - using ICT to support new ways of teaching and learning.
PQM viability for online What is the work of the ODeL practitioner? New curriculum design - prototypes of online
courses; the niche for OERS. Implications for the
teaching/learning/assessment nexus Reviewing the roles of the ODeL practitioner,
academic, e-tutor, teaching assistant, DCLD. The special role of MOOCS
The Role of CollegesThe Role of Colleges
The requirement to migrate to a new ops model will require:-intensive professional development to ensure academics acquire new skills to function effectively in the new era.
Accompanying a new matrix of systems and processes will be renewed staff capacity and a process of re-skilling via a change management strategy.
Colleges
Professional Development
Skills training required for a digital future Re-conceptualization of job functions Realignment of recruitment and selection criteria Equipping Staff and Students with Enabling Technologies
The Next Five Years: What African eLearning hopes to
achieve Increased mobility in education delivery Enhanced formal and informal learning through
mobile technologies. Improved political will Reap economic benefit from ICT Investment in
Education Increased access to ICT (Devices, Internet
Connectivity and Content) Increased local content Improved learning and new pedagogies Increase in self motivated learning
Reflections Technological change vs institutional and individual change Organisational culture and politics – insecurity, anxiety and
resistance Organisational transformation underway – leveraging investments
and advances in technology; equipping students Graduateness in the digital era Capacity development on sufficient scale Rethinking teaching, learning, assessment and administration in a
paperless environment