OCD as an ION's Global Partner

From our humble beginnings in 1997, ION has grown to help develop quality use of network technologies in education across the globe. Recent partnerships are described below. Additional use of the ION program from around the world can be seen on our Scope page.

American University of Beirut, Lebanon

In January of 2007, the American University of Beirut joined ION as a global partner. They will soon have several Master Online Teacher Certificate holders as well.

Organizational Capacity Development Company (OCD), Vietnam

OCD became an ION global partner in January of 2009. They have several trainers engaged in the pursuit of the Master Online Teacher certificate.




Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University, UAE

HBMEU became an ION global partner in May of 2009 after their Director of Center for e-Learning Excellence discovered the value of ION partnership and the quality of the MVCR program.

Korean University of Technology and Education

As part of a developing partnership with KUT and many other South Korean businesses and institutes, the Illinois Online Network is excited to provide vital staff developing opportunities. Beginning in 2002, Michael Lindeman began a partnership between ION and KUT. Since, the ION team has presented five workshops lasting from 1 to 4 weeks for faculty from across South Korea. These intensive workshops bring together aspects from all areas of online education including: assessment, instructional design, administration, pedagogy, etc. A comfortable, sharing atmosphere is developed where we not only share educational knowledge, but come to know one another as friends.

Winter 2003-4


Summer 2004