ASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION

STATISTICAL REPORT QUESTIONNAIRE 2006

PART V

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Please complete the following contact information identifying the person completing this part of the Statistical Report, and append announcements of your continuing education activities.  This will help if questions arise in interpreting the data.  Please be sure to return this cover sheet with the questionnaire.

	Name:							
	Title:			

	Phone Number:					

	Fax Number:			

	Email Address:			

	University:		

If questions arise in completing this part of the questionnaire, or if you have comments on its content, please contact the author of this section:

Jana Varlejs
School of Communication, Library and Information Studies
Rutgers University 
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071

Telephone:  732-932-1726
Fax:  732-932-2644
Email:  varlejs@scils.rutgers.edu

PART V:  CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

This section should include information on continuing education activities which are offered specifically for practicing information professionals during the 2005-2006 academic year.

Do not include activities or courses intended primarily for library/information science degree program students.  Report 6th year and other post-masters enrollments in regular masters and doctoral courses in Student Section.  

Please refer to definitions pages at the end of this section and read all definitions before answering the questions below.  Note that categories and definitions have been revised!

1.A	Type, Number, Duration, Location, etc. of Non-Credit Activities.   Please provide all information for each type of activity reported.

A.

Non-Credit Activity
(Use definitions provided)
	Col. 1

Total number held	Col. 2

Total no.
contact
hours
(for activities in Col. 1 Do not multiply by Col. 3)	Col. 3

Total
attendance
(Do NOT count degree students)	Col. 4

Number of programs which offered CEUs
	Col. 5

Number held on campus	Col. 6

Number held off campus	Col. 7

Number delivered by alternative methods (specify)
	
Institute,
Symposium,
Conference, forum								
Workshop								
Lecture-mode presentation								
Seminar								
Short course								
Individualized
Learning								
Other,
Please specify
_____________
_____________								
TOTAL								

1.B	Type, Number, Duration, Location, etc. of Credit-Bearing CE.  If you offered CE courses specifically designed for practitioners who were not candidates for a degree (i.e., not enrolled in 6th year, masters, or doctoral degree programs) for which academic credits were granted, enter the information below.  Note:  Postmasters’ enrollments in degree courses should NOT be reported here; enter those in the chapter on students.

B.

Credit Activity	
1.0 credit hour	
2.0 credit hours	
3.0 credit hours	
Totals

Delivery modes
	
	No. of courses	No. enrolled	No. of courses	No. enrolled	No. of courses 	No. enrolled	Credits	Enrollment	Number held on campus	Number held off campus	Number delivered
By alternative methods
(specify) 1	
1-2 week  short course												
3-4 week  short course												
5-6 week course												
7+ week course												
Weekend												
other:
________
												
TOTAL												
 
Please refer to definitions and indicate mode of alternative delivery using the codes below.  For teleconferencing, specify type and indicate whether you produced or received (e.g., 3 [I-B]; 1 [V2-way].

I-A   Internet, self-paced                         C   Correspondence      ST   Study tour     V2-way    Audio/video both ways              
I-B   Internet, mostly asynchronous        E   ETN                        TV  Television      V1-way   Video one way only
I-C   Internet, mostly synchronous                                                         broadcast      Other, specify

1.C	Please indicate the number of contact hours that equals one credit hour:    __________

2.	Primary geographical groups
	From where did your attendees – for both credit and non-credit CE -- come? 

Local (within 25 miles)			_____%
State/Province			_____%
Regional (nearby states/provinces)  	              _____%
National (beyond region)   		_____%
		International (outside country)		_____%

3.	Financial Support

	From where did your continuing education support come:  for salaries for the CE portion of administrators and support staff, for stipends or salaries of CE teaching staff, for travel and other expenses associated by CE speakers/faculty, facility rental and other CE program related costs. (Exclude overhead for own facility space use, both as office and as CE event site.)

Fees and tuition	_____%
Institutional funds	_____%	
                                Govt. grants	_____%
                                Other grants	_____%
Contracts                                                  _____% 
Other (specify)
___________________	_____%
Total	  100%

	Are you required to return a portion of your income to your university? ___  What %? ___

4.	Compensation for continuing education program faculty

How was the fee or honorarium for presenters/instructors determined?  Check all that are applicable.

	Non-credit Activities	Courses for Credit	
	School’s Own Faculty	Outside Instructors	School’s Own Faculty	Outside Instructors	
Negotiated					
Flat Fee					
Formula (please
explain)
_____________
_____________
_____________
					
Part of teaching load (no extra compensation)				XXXXXXXXXX	

5.	Faculty/Staff
	Indicate the extent to which you used your own faculty and other instructor/presenters.

	Not applicable	Not at all				To a great extent	
LIS faculty in own institution	0	1	2	3	4	5	
LIS faculty from other institution	0	1	2	3	4	5	
Non LIS faculty in own institution	0	1	2	3	4	5	
Non LIS faculty from other institution	0	1	2	3	4	5	
Library/information science practitioners	0	1	2	3	4	5	
Consultants	0	1	2	3	4	5	
Vendors	0	1	2	3	4	5	
Others (Specify)							
______________________________	0	1	2	3	4	5	
______________________________	0	1	2	3	4	5	

6.	Administration and Coordination
	Who administered (A) and/or coordinated (C) your continuing education program?
	Indicate A and/or C for all that apply:

	Total Program	Individual Activities	
a.	Library School coordinator (other than d, e, or f)			
b.	University Office of CE or Extension			
c.	Faculty Committee			
d.	One faculty member as permanent administrator			
e.	Faculty rotate			
f.	Dean or director			

DEFINITIONS OF CE FORMATS AND DELIVERY MODES

Asynchronous -- Used to describe a situation where learners and instructor are not in communication at the same time for the most part, e.g., as in Internet-based or video-taped courses. 

Conference – A general type of meeting, usually of one or more days’ duration, attended by a fairly large number of people.  The emphasis is on prepared presentations by authoritative speakers, although division into smaller group sessions for discussion purposes is often a related activity.

Continuing Education Unit (CEU) – Ten contact hours of participation in an organized continuing education experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction and qualified instruction.

Correspondence - Course content delivered by mail, whether presented in print, video or audio tape, CD-Rom, or some combination. 

ETN -- Educational Telephone Network, a telephone networking system that allows small groups of learners at several remote sites to communicate with the instructor and each other orally; see also teleconferencing.

Individualized Learning – A method of learning which leads the learner to control his/her progress in learning and/or where the content may be tailored to the learner's needs.  Examples of delivery methods are correspondence (mail), computer-based , programmed text or teaching machine, independent learning on campus.

Institute – Similar to a conference but more tightly structured.  Emphasis on providing instruction in principles and techniques.  Institutes may have a certain continuity, meeting on a yearly basis for example.

Internet-based -- Instruction delivered via the Internet. It can be designed for a cohort of learners and be part synchronous/part asynchronous, with due dates for assignments and course completion. Or, it can be entirely asynchronous, with learners working independently at their own pace, without a structured time frame, and without built-in communication among learners and between learners and instructor.

Lecture-mode presentation (oral or textual) - Designed to impart information, in contrast to the workshop, which usually seeks to develop skills or attitudes.  The audience is expected to listen or read, rather than to be actively involved as in a workshop or interactive Internet course. A Web tutorial that requires no interaction would fall into this format category, with “Internet, mostly asynchronous” specified as the delivery mode.
	
Self-paced -- Student may move through and complete a course alone, without a cohort group or fixed schedule.

Seminar – A small group of people with the primary emphasis on discussion under a leader or resource person or persons.  In continuing higher education, a seminar is more likely to be a one-time offering, although it may continue for several days.

Short course – A sequential offering, as a rule under a single instructor, meeting on a regular basis for a stipulated number of class sessions over a short period of time (one to three weeks, for example).  A short course may be for academic, post-master’s credit or not for credit.  The non-credit course may resemble the credit course in everything but the awarding of credit.  It may also be more informal and more flexible in its approach in order to meet the needs of student.  

Study tour -- Course that incorporates travel to libraries or other sites related to the content of instruction.  For contact hours, count only those during which lectures or other modes of instruction occur. 

Symposium/Forum – Similar to conference / institute, but audience participation is built in.

Synchronous -- In Internet-delivered instruction, both instructor and students are online simultaneously.  “Real-time” teleconferencing may be said to be synchronous.

Teleconferencing -- Synchronous exchange of audio, video, or text (or a combination) between two or more remote sites using telecommunication technology such as telephone or cable lines, satellite transmission., etc.  In reporting this kind of delivery mode, please specify two-way video/audio, or  one-way video with two-way audio, or one-way video/audio in combination with whatever other communication mode was used from remote sites .

Television-delivered -- Course broadcast via TV stations.

Workshop – Usually meets for a continuous period of time over a period of one or more days.
	The distinguishing feature of the workshop is that it combines instruction with laboratory
	or experiential activity for the participant.  The emphasis is more likely to be on skill
	training or attitudinal change than on general principles.  See also Lecture-mode presentation.