Session 23

Perspectives on Organizational Cooperation: What works, what doesn't.

Presenters: Bonnie Luterbach, Lori Wallace and Kathleen Mateos, Ph.D., University of Manitoba

Session Description:

Educational organizations in Canada are faced with the need to build capacity for distance and distributed delivery of learning. Institutional cooperation provides a means to share resources for infrastructure, program planning, development, delivery and evaluation, but is not without its pitfalls. The panel members will discuss and provide examples of the qualities of successful cooperation and issues of institutional cooperation.

Presenter: Bonnie Luterbach

Bonnie Luterbach is the Senior Instructional Designer in Distance and Online Education at The University of Manitoba. She has 30 years experience as a educator and administrator at the university, community college, and high school levels in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Bonnie is an active member in both the Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE-ACÉD) and the Manitoba Association for Distributed Learning and Training (MADLaT). Currently, Bonnie and Kathleen Matheos are part of a research team working on a project focused on identifying the determinants of institutional readiness for distance/distributed learning in Canada. Two of the objectives of this CADE-OLT project include identifying indicators of organizational readiness to engage in partnerships with community organizations for the provision of distributed learning and in identifying barriers to engaging in partnerships in the use of educational technologies.

Presenter: Lori Wallace

Lori Wallace is Associate Dean (Degree Programs), and Director of Distance and Online Education in the Division of Extended Education at the University of Manitoba. She has worked in distance education administration and instructional design since 1985.


 

Presenter: Kathleen Mateos, Ph.D., University of Manitoba

Kathleen Matheos is the Associate Dean in the Extended Education Division at the University of Manitoba and has worked in the college and university systems in Canada for over 20 years. She has worked in China, India, Mozambique, Chile, and Ethiopia providing workshops for universities and governments in changing paradigms of higher education, collaboration and consortia development, and the design and implementation of open and blended learning systems. She serves as the program coordinator for COHERE, a collaboration of nine Canadian universities working together to improve access to online learning opportunities and to integrate online learning with research culture and values. Over the last three years her research has focussed on collaboration and consortia within higher education, and the concomitant innovation and change.