McKenna, Vilma Bernal, Myriam Mekelburg, David Jordan
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1. Review "Grandfather" clause for Doug McFerran
The committee deferred "grandfathering" Doug for purposes of his certification. Doug has been teaching online since 1999, and is an accomplished online instructor. He currently uses "nicenet" as his course management system.
Myriam said that she will be evaluating Doug within the next 4 weeks since Doug is an online faculty under her Department. The committee discussed that the online faculty evaluation needs to be modified. Here is our current materials on Instructor Evaluation - http://lamc-ddl.pbwiki.com/instructor-evaluation - Myriam will pilot the development of the Instructor Evaluation and will report back to the committee with suggestions and recommendations.
The Committee discussed the student evaluation form for use in evaluation of online faculty. Linda Delzeit has set Mission College up with a form - see http://wellness.lattc.edu/online/evals/LAMCeval.html Evaluations are forwarded to the email address: missiononline@gmail.com and then forwarded to the Department Chair of the online faculty. The Committee decided to use this evaluation form with student evaluation of online faculty for the Fall 2007 semester. Our Mission IT will be contacted and requested to set up the same system on the lamission.edu website.
2. Discuss Substantive Change Policy, and and how to assist disciplines faced with substantive change, and how to plan growth of DE classes to minimize substantive change issues - see http://lamc-ddl.pbwiki.com/change
The Committee discussed the Substantive Change Policy. Several members suggested we contact Gary Colombo to get an exact reading of what constitutes a substantive change in a discipline. David will contact Gary on this matter.
3. Discuss Instructor contact and evaluation of DE instructors - forms and procedures - http://lamc-ddl.pbwiki.com/instructor-evaluation - The Committee discussed this matter. see above item #1 on student evaluation. The student evaluation form requests students evaluate their online instructor contact. Use of the student evaluation form will provide useful information to Department Chairs to determine the level, extent and nature of instructor contact. Here are some of the questions in the student evaluation: The instructor regularly informs me of my grades and provides feedback on my performance, The instructor responds to email in a timely manner, The instructor interacts with students in ways that are free of discrimination.
4. Discuss DE reporting to Educational Planning Committee - protocol and procedures - see http://lamc-ddl.pbwiki.com/de-reporting David informed the committee that the DE Committee has a representative vote in the Educational Planning Committee (EPC) and once the committee completed its review of DE matters and reduced them to motions or forms and procedures, that such will be reported to the EPC and when appropriate to the Academic Senate.
5. Application to Teach Online - David informed the committee that he learned on Tuesday that at least five (5) online classes were scheduled as online classes without going through the DE approval process. see Spring 2008 online classes The VP of Academic Affairs was notified and the classes were pulled from the Spring 2008 schedules with the exception of Biology 33 since the class has been planned for some time and is ready for content review. The instructor has been certified in etudes ng and the class - "Medical Terminology" is an excellent type of class for online delivery.
Saed suggested that the DE process start with an "Application to Teach Online" which first starts in the Curriculum Committee. Saed will review the current DE Forms on "Application to Teach Online - see http://lamc-ddl.pbwiki.com/application and then modify it, and bring it before both DE and Curriculum for approval. David informed the Committee that he talked with Jerry Garcia in IT and he said that IT could develop a data base of online classes from the Protocol system, and at the beginning of the galley process for each semester and session, instead of waiting until the galleys go to press, and the classes have to be pulled.
6. Develop guidelines for new online classes - Madeline Hernandez in the Curriculum Committee indicated that any class that has "interpersonal communications" such as a Speech class cannot be transferred to the UC/CSU if it is delivered entirely, or in part (a hyrid class) online. Based on that representation, the Speech class scheduled as a hybrid class for Spring 2008 was pulled from the schedules. The Committee needs to get a list of the interpersonal communication classes, and needs to develop an approach and guideline to review the appropriateness of offering classes online or hybrid. Saed indicated that this step should be included in the "Application to Teach Online" and should be discussed and reviewed at the initial stages of the application process to teach an online class.
meeting adjourned: 9:15 am
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