Organizational Leadership Distributive Learning Program

Through the Collaborative Effort of The OFIC Institute

—Offerings for Winter/Spring Starting January 2000

WHAT IS THE ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP DISTRIBUTIVE LEARNING PROGRAM?

OFIC and seven independent colleges have teamed together to offer working professionals further education in Organizational Leadership via internet-based, asynchronous courses beginning January 2000 at www.oficonline.org.

This is a high quality, learner-centered, internet-based program that can be completed in six-week terms online.

CHARTER PARTICIPATING COLLEGES

Ashland University
Bluffton College
Cedarville College *
The University of Findlay
Malone College
Mount Vernon Nazarene College
Wilmington College

* Cedarville is strongly committed to the use of technology to enable quality education. The College specializes in campus-based programs and does not offer complete non-traditional degree completion options. As a member of this web-based collaboration, the College offers OFIC Corporate partners access to Cedarville programs and its students access to OFIC collaboration offerings. OFIC collaboration students who qualify for admission to Cedarville will receive course credit. Those who choose not to apply for admission to the College will qualify for CEU credit.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM:

Top faculty from each college will provide innovative classes using current technology.
Each course counts as three transferable credit hours and can also be applied to an OFIC certification.
The courses allow students to learn anywhere, anytime, interact with faculty, corporate leaders, experts, and their peers via the Internet.
Independent colleges have a history of providing students with competencies in critical thinking, communication, cultural awareness, ethics and values, and problem solving. This program integrates these competencies into the Internet-based curriculum.

Corporate partners will be asked to work with the OFIC Distributive Learning Collaborative on course development and assessment. They will identify key employees to provide guest lecturing via streaming video or audio, work with students on problem based learning models from their own corporate experiences via e-mail or threaded discussions, etc. Having key corporate employees available as resources for our faculty and students will add a dimension of real work information and issues to our courses and allow students to get first-hand knowledge in a variety of areas. Corporate Partners' funding will be used to help defray the costs associated with hardware and software needed to offer these courses using state of the art technology.

For further information contact:

Jean Hart
Organizational Leadership Program

21 East State Street, Suite 1110
Columbus, Ohio 43215-4228
614-469-1950
614-469-4733 FAX