Save the Date - The Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning

The Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning, a unique blended-learning leadership development program sponsored by Penn State and the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), is offering a leadership experience that will give you the skills—and confidence—that you need.

 

IELOL is a four-step leadership development program. The program begins with a two-week IELOL online experience (July 18–29) designed to identify and focus attention on key leadership challenges at the participants’ organizations. The second step is an on-site immersive experience at Penn State (August 8–11) that enables the IELOL participant to develop specific leadership skills, styles, networks, and strategies for the emerging leader. A three-week online follow-up program (September 19–October 7) provides senior-level mentoring and consulting for the participants as they apply the newly-acquired skills and concepts in their local settings. The program culminates with a preconference workshop (November 16) at the annual Sloan Consortium ALN conference in Orlando.

 

Objectives

  • Build on the Sloan Consortium Effective Practices’ Five Pillars as a framework to explore operational, policy, and institutional context and personal leadership dimensions of online education
  • Develop the leadership perspective to face institutional challenges
  • Recognize and seize institutional opportunities for leadership in online education

Benefits of Attending

  • Leadership-level program with peers in online learning
  • Immersive experience with pioneers and experts in online learning
  • Opportunity to address current critical operational issues based on the Sloan Consortium Effective Practices’ Five Pillars:
    1. learning effectiveness
    2. scale
    3. access
    4. faculty satisfaction
    5. student satisfaction
  • Chance to ask questions of leaders to help you develop a vision for the future
  • Annual individual membership in Sloan Consortium included with registration fee for current nonmembers

Who Should Attend

This immersive experience is designed for:

  • persons positioned for leadership contributions in their institutions
  • persons with such occupational titles as manager, associate director, assistant director
  • personnel with responsibilities for online education initiatives

Nominations to the institute will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling-enrollment, first-come, first-served basis. Preference will be given to candidates with the following qualifications:

  • three to five years of experience in higher education
  • desire to further develop their leadership capability in online education
  • ability to apply the leadership skills and competencies to an institutional setting
  • willingness to contribute to high-production project teams during the institute

This is a limited-enrollment program. The first thirty-five qualified nominations will be accepted.

Key Dates in 2011

April 16: Nomination submission deadline
July 8: Hotel reservations are due
July 12: Registration deadline
July 18–29: Two-week IELOL Online
August 8–11: Immersive Experience at Penn State
September 19–October 7: Three-week IELOL Online
November 16: Sloan-C Annual Conference

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August 8–11, 2011
The Nittany Lion Inn
State College, Pennsylvania

 

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