1. Future Collaborative Trends in Online Education Fred Saba, Ph. D. ADEC Past President Professor Emeritus San Diego State University fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu

2. Why Collaborate? An organization is more productive than the sum of its individual members Brain storming Establishing new and more productive processes and procedures Managing extant and emerging knowledge Making tacit knowledge explicit Learning Establishing organizational lineage and successorship Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu

3. Collaboration Myth and reality in higher education Organizational impediments Retention, Tenure, Promotion (How faculty are rewarded) Grants, Research and Publications 50% Teaching 40% Service 10% Research & development Complexity requires collaboration Publications First name is rewarded Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu

4. Distance Education Organizations State and none-profits Private for profits Proprietary none-profits Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu

5. Proprietary None-Profit Embryonic organization Well funded Tech savvy leader Following the instructional design model Highly motivated and dedicated staff Graduate program Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu

6. Technology Applications Highly distributed organization Software as a Service (SaaS) Software provider licenses an application to customers On demand use Provider usually hosts the application Applications are usually web-enabled Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu

7. Applications Selected Desire2Learn (Learning management system) Adobe Connect (web conferencing) TopSchool (students information management system) NexPrise (document and workflow management system) Fred Saba, Ph. D. fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu