Adventist Libraries and Distance Education

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Adventist Libraries and Distance Education

Peg Bennett & Keith Clouten

The Next Wave of Collaboration

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Distance Education: Then and Now

Distance Education (DE) has been around for a long time.

What is new in DE is the Internet.

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Thanks to the Internet we now have

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Trends as we enter the new Millennium

• Globalization
• Continuing Education of Adults
  “The growth industry in this country and the world
  will soon be continuing education of adults.”
  (Peter Drucker : Managing in a Time of Great Change. 1995. P.343)
• The New Home Base

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The New HOME Base

• Tele-commuting:
  • Growing by 15% per year
  • Work from Home means
    no longer Going to Work !
• Online Education:
  • Growing 3 times faster than full-time enrollments at residential schools
  • Study from Home means
    no longer Going to School !

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DE Takes Several Forms

• DE Programs from Traditional Campuses

• Virtual Universities

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Virtual Universities

• Some established by corporations for profit (e.g. Motorola)
• State legislatures are establishing virtual universities (e.g. Tennessee, Kentucky)
  • Do not grant degrees or offer courses
  • Function as consortia to provide services for existing public universities
• NAD is in process of establishing a VU

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How TE is different from DE

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DE and Libraries

It Used to Be
Soooo Slow

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Traditional DE support meant a long waiting time

Library

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DE and Libraries Today

But NOW
it can be
Almost Instantaneous !!

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Library

DE support can be fast!!

Internet

Remote Databases

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How DE is Challenging Libraries

• Collaboration is happening everywhere
• Libraries are often forgotten in the rush.   Why?
• Few online courses require reading lists or library research
• Uncertainty about how the library & its resources can be successfully integrated into an online format
• 1998 ACRL Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services
• Pressure from accreditation bodies

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DE Challenges for Adventist Libraries

• Worldwide Distribution of DE Students
• Technology is a Question of Geography
• Licensing Issues
• Adventist Education is Ripe for Collaboration
• New NAD Consortium for DE
• Recent GC Seminar on Distance Education

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SDA Libraries Can Collaborate for DE Support

• Global Mission
• Technologies create new Opportunities
• Librarians Collaborate — “It’s what we do!”
• ASDAL has a Proud History of Collaboration
  • SDA Periodical Index
  • ALICE (Adventist Libraries Information Cooperative)

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Opportunities for Global Collaboration

• SDA Resources on the Web
• Enhanced Interlibrary Loan
• Global Direct Document Delivery
• Global Consortial Approach to Selected Database Producers / Vendors

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Challenges to SDA Library Collaboration for DE

• Lack of library budget support for DE (staff, information resources,
  technology)
• Competition among NAD Institutions
• Collaboration requires leadership and support at both NAD and GC levels
• Collaboration requires teamwork among librarians

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So . . .

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