ࡱ> <>; $bjbj΀ 449Yrr8$.AWmmmH>  dHHmmmmm 3Vdn0d4jr {: Distance Education Committee Minutes September 17, 2010 The meeting was opened by John Newman, chairman of the Distance Education Committee via email from the Winnemucca campus to all committee members from September 3 to September 17, 2010. Memebers in Response: Susanne Bentley, Bob Byram, Jim Elithorp, Lisa Frazier, Robert Hannu, Thomas Matula, Russ Orr No Response/Deemed Absent: None Old Business: 1. None New Business: Two requests/inquiries have been directed to the Distance Education committee. They were: 1. There is some concern as to the consistency of the IAV equipment available in the different classrooms i.e. LUND classrooms vs. the EIT classrooms. Additionally, there is a request to have wireless PowerPoint devices added to each IAV classroom to provide presenters to move through PowerPoint slides without being tied to the console keyboard. Discussion/Responses from committee members were as follows: Member Elithorp I am in favor of adopting new technology as it is available. I am in favor of the wireless devices. One benefit may be to keep the facilitators busy tracking the presenters thus making their jobs more demanding and possibly interesting. Member Bentley These sound like a good idea, but I dont have any information about the total costs and how much money is available to spend, so I cannot give you a yes or a no comment. Member Matula In terms of the wireless power point presenters. I don't see using them myself, but if other faculty want them I would have no objection as long as the funding is available. Member Frazier I've talked to the DE committee about becoming a Quality Matters college many years ago when it was new at a WebCT conference. It was thought way back then that we could do our own thing. Well, our own thing never happened. I love Quality Maters! It's flexibly enough to cover most of our courses, yet proven for many years to be effective in setting effective guidelines that we need. I sent an email out to our NSHE sister institutions to see if any of them are using it and what their experiences have been. I'll let you know what I hear. From what I have heard in the past few years, it has been like Nancy at WWCC, they really love it. It is grassroots in that it is not administrative driven but peer driven and focused on continuous online course improvement not penalizing. I've cc'd Lynette because I think it might fit well into our Enrichment Program. It's time. The Distance Education Committee needs to make a recommendation to the Faculty Senate Committee to stand behind some type of basic guidelines for quality and rigor. Both the Distance Ed Comm & Enrichment Committee could work together to make this happen. Member Orr I believe we should concentrate on upgrading viewing screens in all labs before money is spent on other equipment. Member Byram All efforts should be made to improve , enhance the distance-ed process. If new equipment makes the experience better for the instructor, facilitator, learning environment etc. it can only improve GBC's distance-ed delivery. I vote yes on issue # 1 (one) 2. An inquiry has been directed to the Distance Ed. Committee to look into having some sort of rubric or grading matrix for guidelines or directions for online courses. This would insure that all online courses would meet certain criteria and standards for GBC courses. Discussion/Responses from committee members were as follows: Member Elithorp I am in favor of developing 'best practices' for Internet courses, but not for a 'grading rubric.' Providing quality Internet courses is a challenge that appears to be somewhat driven by the limited technology available and the content of each course. A grading rubric that would apply to all Internet Courses would be difficult to generate and may discriminate against specific content areas. For example in the Land Surveying Curriculum some courses are based on measurement science where the language is mathematics--other courses are based on the law. The development of the two types of courses is completely different due to content demands. Member Bentley This is also a good idea. As a parent of two GBC students, I know that not all instructors who use Web Campus are as knowledgeable about it as others. Academic standards across the curriculum are always a good practice. Susanna Dorr could help us make these rubrics available online. Member Matula On the second item, I agree. We really do need to agree on some minimum standards for online courses at GBC, both in terms of content and instructor presence in the course. What would be the best way to move forward on this? Member Orr I dont agree with developing a standard for grading online courses. Grading preferences should be left to instructors. My position is still the same. Rubrics work only if they are very specific to what is being evaluated. I teach both English 101 and 102 online, and I don't know how one rubric for standards of quality would work for these two very different English courses without impeding instructional flexibility. I believe the IDEA diagnostic form gives an accurate snapshot of the class and instructor. If this form, which is reviewed by the department chair, indicates a problem, the department should review how that particular course is being presented. If we are working on required course tools, I would recommend that the syllabus tool, the mail tool, the assignments tool (which would establish the grade book, the assignment drop box, and my grades), and the calendar tool be required for all online courses. The others should be optional. These required tools would show the student how the class will be conducted, what assignments are included, when the assignments are due, and how the student is doing in the class. The e-mail (which I consider the most important tool) would provide the student access to the instructor and vice versa. I don't believe a successful online class is possible without these basic tools. Member Byram As per the issue of this committee providing or assisting in developing a rubric for grades, (grading) I'm all ears to those with online teaching experience. Action Taken: In response to the items listed above, a verbal report will be made by chairman Newman to the faculty senate at the September 24 meeting. Faculty members will asked if a wireless pointer is needed in any of the classrooms that they teach in and to submit a request to chairman Newman. Some monies are available from the technology fund to provide these. The faculty senate will be asked to consider implementing some form of peer review program or instituting a program, such as Quality Matters, to insure online courses meet a set of standards agreeable to the mission of GBC. Faculty will also be asked to look at a short video on the Course Makeover program in place at UNR.  HYPERLINK "http://teaching.unr.edu/IDT/wcresources/course_makeover.html" http://teaching.unr.edu/IDT/wcresources/course_makeover.html No meeting date was set for October. Meeting was deemed adjourned on Friday, September 17th 2010. Minutes taken by John Newman. 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