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