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REFLECTIONS…
From USDLA Executive Director
John G. Flores, Ph.D.
For USDLA, FY01 represented a year of continued growth, change and risk. The Association continued to develop and prosper through new partnerships, affiliations and corporate sponsorships. Moreover individual memberships coupled with an increase of active state chapter associations also contributed to this positive direction. On the national level we became more assertive and effective in state and national policy deliberations impacting the distance learning industry. Our Executive Committee and Board of Directors under the leadership of President Marshall Allen demonstrated resolve, commitment and common sense on the many issues facing the Association.
Overall the primary goal of the Association has been the quality provision of membership services. Publications, conferences, product discounts and most importantly the networking of people have been foremost. We continue to search for new opportunities, revenue streams and the creation of membership benefits. Through Strong leadership and a focused direction our reinvention of USDLA continues. Your monetary and human support is what fuels this rebirth. Fiscal Year 01 has been a time of change and expectation in the distance learning industry. It seems everything in the distance learning vocabulary has became e-something. Nonetheless USDLA continues to represent all its constituencies of Pre K-12, higher education, homeschool education, continued education, corporate training, military and government and healthcare and telemedicine.
Our mission remained focused in the support for development and application of distance learning using various technologies, delivery methods and application. Our goals remained targeted:
- Providing national leadership in the field of distance learning.
- Providing current information on distance learning
- Representing the distance learning community before government policy and regulatory bodies.
- Serving and supporting the state, consortium and Individual organizations that belong to USDLA.
- Providing annual recognition of outstanding achievements in distance learning.
- Serving as a catalyst for the formation of Partnerships among education, business, healthcare and government.
- Achieving a global leadership role through liaisons with international
- organizations.
- Promoting equality and access to life long learning through distance learning.
- Promoting diversity among our organization and its programs.
Advocating and promoting the use of distance learning.
Our major events continued to be the Telecon West Show and the e-learning show in partnership with Advanstar. FY01 also brought a successful policy Forum to USDLA members and our publications continue to improve in overall content and quality. Moreover State Chapters continued to grow and regional conferences held by various states were quite successful. Our distance learning awards program recognized the best of FY01 and the quality of submissions were excellent.
As an association we continued to evolve raising expectations and levels of deliverables. FY01 has been another year of accomplishment. Our hope is to continue that trend.