The Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning is a unique blended-learning leadership development program sponsored by The Pennsylvania State University and the Sloan Consortium. This institute is designed to serve the leadership development needs of professionals in the rapidly expanding field of online learning.  Enrollments are limited to 35 emerging leaders in the field.

The program begins with an on-site immersive symposium at Penn State’s University Park Campus from 9-12 August 2010. This will be followed by a five-week online program, during which the participants have the opportunity to apply new leadership skills and concepts at their individual institutions. The final component is a one-day pre-conference workshop at the annual Sloan Consortium ALN conference in Orlando.

Who Should Attend

This immersive experience is designed for:

• persons positioned for leadership contributions within their institutions

• persons with such occupational titles as manager, associate, assistant director

• personnel with responsibilities for online education initiatives

Objectives

• Explore the Sloan Consortium Five Pillars of Effective Practice as a framework for understanding key dimensions of leadership for online education in a college or university setting.

• Develop a leadership perspective for achieving change and meeting institutional challenges.

• Position online learning leaders to recognize and pursue new institutional opportunities for online education.

• Develop a network of colleagues to share leadership experiences in the future.

We look forward to receiving nominations from ICDE members by the deadline of 31 March. Please visit the website at www.programs.psu.edu/IELOL2010 for updates.

Sincerely,

Institute Co-Directors:

Dr. Gary Miller, Executive Director Emeritus, Penn State World Campus

Dr. Lawrence Ragan, Director of Faculty Development, Penn State World Campus

IELOL Faculty:

Dr. Meg Benke, Dean of the Center for Distance Learning at Empire State College, State University of New York in Saratoga Springs, New York

Dr. Bruce Chaloux, Director of Student Access Programs and Services at the Southern Region Education Board in Atlanta, Georgia

Ray Schroeder, Director of the Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service and Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Illinois at Springfield.

Dr. Wayne Smutz, Associate Vice President for Academic Outreach and Executive Director of the World Campus, The Pennsylvania State University.

1 February 2010