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CETA, Research, and collaboration

June 21, 2007 | Filed under: General

At this week’s CETA (Capella Educational Technology Advisory) committee meeting, we discussed the relationship of several similar projects that are on the horizon:

• a larger collection of faculty collaboration tools (code name: “facultyland”)
• a faculty-only research site (which is sort of an offshoot of facultyland)
• a separate (but parallel) faculty/learner research site.

Some good thoughts were shared on the prioritization of these projects. I suggested to the committee that we combine these into a single project. Paul H. suggested that a faculty-only research site won’t have the traffic volume of something supporting learners. Scott H. counseled that we could execute several of these simultaneously. The upshot of it all was that the CM&OC team will scope out these projects in more detail, and then our leadership (including CETA) will help us decide how to execute these projects (sequentially, concurrently, etc.)

Someone on the phone (Bill Burkett?) said during the conversation that he’d send me more thoughts on collaboration and research sites for faculty. Actually, rather than get more emails on the subject, I’d like to invite CETA members to use this blog posting to provide any further input on these initiatives. It’ll be more conversational, and I think a better way for you to share all your thoughts.

So: if you have more to say, leave a comment here.

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