Strategic Analysis

§ Review Current Situation

• Student enrollments (trends)
• Current pedagogical strategies face to face ( f2f) and online
• Current online endeavors
• Class size – f2f/online
• Number of faculty
• Budget – investment resources available
• Infrastructure overview

§ Assessing Goals of online teaching initiative

• Audience - New/larger/diversified
• Student satisfaction/retention
• Increase enrollments
• Increase revenue
• Income to fund face to face (reducing class size)
• Target niche markets
• Online courses that drive students to project-based onsite program
• Visability – reputation/marketing/pr
• Flexibility of time/space for faculty and students
• Delivery mechanism for rich media
• Increase active learning opportunities

§ Overview of possible delivery strategies

• Assessing pedagogical models
• Engaged/Active learning
• Interaction (peer to peer, guide on the side)
• Using Rich Media
• Anytime/Anywhere delivery
• Intimacy (can online help alleviate large f2f class size?)
• Self-paced delivery
• Continuous learning – availability of supplemental materials/activities
• Assessing modes of development and delivery
• Traditional model
• Hybrid courses
• One course delivery (individual effort)
• Cohesive online degrees (group effort)
• Specific certificates, workshops
• Customized courses for corporate clients
• Unconventional delivery strategies (scheduling, credits, length of courses)
• Use of facilitator model of delivery
• Self-paced (mastery) courses