Projects
IACEE has the following projects which involve international collaboration, funding and activities.
The IACEE Quality Program
This project focuses on providing processes and tools for CE operations benchmarking and by doing so promoting learning within and developing management of the CE organizations. The project is divided into two main activities:
- a) creating systems for defining and gathering valid benchmarking data from continuing education operations. This data will be used for CE organizations self-assessment and sharing best practices amongst the organizations.
- b) Extending the benchmarking tools to be available for all continuing education providers. The project utilizes fully the outcomes of the former DAETE project in which an EFQM based self-assessment matrix was designed to help assess CE organisation’s operations.
As mentioned in several IACEE newsletter articles the name of the series of projects known as DAETE, DAETE2, and DAETIX have been changed to 'IACEE Quality Program'. The adoption of the new name, during the June 2011 IACEE Council meeting, reflects the ownership of the project by IACEE and the content of the program. Also during the June 2011 meeting, the following program participation levels and fees were formally approved by the Council:
1. Public User (no charge). This is intended for organizations who wish to use the tool primarily for their own self-assessment. Limited access to query the data from other organizations at the criterion level for benchmarking purposes is available.
2. Identified Benchmarking Provider ($ 200/year). This is intended for organizations who want to go beyond their own organizational self-assessment to benchmarking for continuous improvement. This level provides user the capability to query the data from other organizations at the sub-criterion level for more detailed benchmarking and also provides access to best practices from other organizations. Data from Identified Benchmarking Providers is available for other users to see.
3. Confidential Benchmarking Provider ($ 800/year). This level is the same as the Identified Benchmarking Provider in terms of access to data for benchmarking. However, data from Confidential Benchmarking Providers is NOT available for other users to see.
4. Developer ($ 750/year). This is intended for Benchmarking providers who also want to be involved in the future development of the IACEE Quality Program tools and offerings through IACEE. Developers must be approved by the IACEE Quality Program (IQP) Administrative Committee and will be expected to participate as Benchmarking Providers. The IQP Administrative Committee is led by Alfredo Soeiro and includes Kim Scalzo, Patricio Montesinos, Nelson Baker, and Wang Aiyi as members. Developers are encouraged to pursue separate research projects and make recommendations to the IACEE Administrative Committee toward the continued development of the IACEE Quality Program.
It was also decided at the June 2011 Council Meeting to implement the automation of the data collection, querying, and reporting via a web-based platform to enable better and more scalable access to the self-assessment and benchmarking tools for the IACEE Quality Program. This implementation will be funded by the program participation fees of registered users. All organizational IACEE members are invited to consider the benefits of the IACEE Quality Program for their own organization and register according to their preferred type of level participation. As the number of registered users increases, the quality of the benchmarking data will only improve and be of greater value to all of us!
If you have questions about the IACEE Quality Program, want access to the IQP tools, or would like to join as a registered user, please contact Kim Scalzo or Alfredo Soeiro to learn more and to participate.
The Continuing Engineering Education New Leader Training
One of the goals defined in the current IACEE Strategic Plan is “to provide globally recognized manager training for continuing engineering educators”. This training is now developped.
In IACEE's March 2011 Newsletter, the development of a survey was discussed to determine the training needs of our IACEE membership. This survey was created and sent to all members of IACEE during the summer of 2011. 67% of the responses were from universities, 17% from industry, 16% from other providers of CEE. Countries represented were China, Indonesia, Spain, Canada, Colombia, Japan, Philippines, Finland, and USA. The topics selected in the top 5 were:
- Marketing strategies: what works, what doesn’t,
- Demand analysis: needs and future needs,
- Managing the brand,
- Learning & delivery technology applications,
- International and global competition.
The team members for this CEE Manager Training Project are Patricio Montesinos (Universidat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain), Phil O’Leary (University of Wisconsin, USA), Zhou Yuanqiang (Tsinghua University, China), and Pat Hall (University of Tulsa, USA).
For further information please contact Pat Hall. It is still possible to respond to the survey; please contact Pat Hall to receive the link.
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