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DUOC UC Trip Report

From November 7-11, 2016 I had the opportunity to visit DUOC UC in Santiago, Chile. I was invited to attend and deliver a keynote at their annual conference, and to participate in meetings with staff and other departments from the institution where they shared their progress, challenges, and successes, and reported their accomplishments and future plans.

We first learned about DUOC UC when a team from DUOC visted SLN, international programs and COIL in NYC at the Global Center in October 2014.

Their objective during their first visit was learn more about implementing and managing distance education models. DUOC is a large institution (85,000) in Chile. DUOC is located in Santiago, Chile, and is a fully accredited private higher education institution with 2-, 3- and 4-year technical and professional programs. Since their visit in October 2014, they expanded their distance education programs, and have initiated a successful blended learning pilot.

During my visit to Chile, I had the chance to meet with DUOC UC university administrators and staff at all levels of the organization and within their online programs at several institutions within the system to learn more about DUOC UC in general, and to learn more about their approaches to online teaching and learning from the faculty, student, and support perspectives.

On November 10, 2016 I attended the “VIII Seminario Proyectos de Desarollo e Innovación Académica”  and delivered the presentation: Formatos Educativos Flexibles y Formación Online: La Experiencia de la Universidad Estatal – Innovación Institucional y Escala: Comunidad, Insignias Digitales, y Rúbrica De Calidad in Spanish.

I was interviewed by a local newspaper and an article was published in conjunction with the event.

After spending a week with DUOC UC staff and learning about their online teaching and learning models, approaches, success and challenges, I was asked to provide some thoughts and recommendations (see below).

Recommendations

  • Build a Community of Practice: for your online/blended faculty and online instructional designers. Creating community across your campuses will exponentially improve consistency, documentation and sharing of best practices, problem solving, showcases, and sense of shared purpose and common goals.

Description of faculty development program: http://wiki.sln.suny.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=10749123

http://wiki.sln.suny.edu/display/SLNED/SLN+Faculty+Development+Program+illustration

http://wiki.sln.suny.edu/display/SLNED/SLN+Online+Course+Models

Links:

http://bitly.com/allthingscote

 

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