DECSC

Minutes

September 6, 2005

Time/Location

12pm-2pm; Room 1103 (Humanities conference room)

Members & Guests Present

• Chair: Rick Moniz
• Kathleen Allen
• Norman Buchwald
• Desmond Chun
• Melita Fogle (Blackboard Support for Students)
• Scott Hildreth
• Zarir Marawala
• Judy Odom
• Jan Novak
• Minta Peterson (Instructional Technology Coordinator)
• Pam Shen
• Wanda Wong
• Sherri Yeager

Minutes

1. Rick asked the committee to review the minutes of the last meeting and to send corrections to Minta.
    
2. Rick confirmed that he and Scott are planning on attending the Curriculum Committee next week, so the committee needs to finalize proposed changes at this meeting.
    
3. Jan passed out a 1-page document, "DE Committee Vision/Goals" for future discussion.
    
4. Committee decided that the DECSC meetings for the semester will be held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month, room to-be-announced, depending on focus of meeting. Rick asked faculty committee members to volunteer to demonstrate one of their online courses during specified meetings:
    
   • September 20th: "cleanup" meeting to finalize goals.
   • October 4th: Desmond Chun will demonstrate his online course. Room may be 3902 - Desmond will check.
   • October 18th: Scott Hildreth (pending) will demonstrate his online course.
   • November 1st: Jan Novak will demonstrate her online course.
   • November 15th: Discussion on pedagogy
   • December 6th: Spokesgroup on requirements (?) or support services (?)
      
5. General discussion on new focus of the committee. Questions, comments, and suggestions included:
    
   • How do we motivate faculty to be interested in online teaching?
   • The process needs to be streamlined.
   • How do you qualify what determines an effective online course?
   • Use an evaluation process with measurable data.
   • What about a supervisory process for each division?
   • Eliminate unnecessary paperwork (currently 18 pages of forms).
   • Take out any DE proposal for which the instructor has had another course approved.
   • What determines a hybrid? 50%? Some hybrid courses require several meetings, while others only require a few.
   • What about faculty who have taught online at other colleges?
   • Faculty who have taught at other colleges still need to be familiar with the support services, process, etc.
   • What about deans who want to quickly add more online courses?
   • How about a "bypass" sheet for faculty who have already been approved to teach online?
   • What about faculty who taught DE at Chabot many years ago, and come back to teach the same course, but the technology, resources, policies, and procedures have changed?
      
6. Proposals.
    
   • Scott moved to approve all of Jan's proposals, as well as all the other experienced DE faculty listed on the sheet Jan had passed out, titled "Anticipated DE Courses," which also included courses proposed by Dmitriy Kalyagin, Jas Banghal, Wanda Wong, Desmond Chun, and Wayne Philips (Minta will post these to the list of proposals as they come in). Committee voted to approve all proposals; however, Wayne Philips will need to submit proposals for the online courses, as all of his previously approved courses were hybrids.
      
7. Proposed changes to the DE Curriculum Process.

Type of Offering	Faculty has taught DE at Chabot	Faculty have not taught DE at Chabot	New to Chabot (Full-time or Adjunct)
New course & DE	Fast track with OK	DE Review	DE Review
Add DE to existing course	Fast track with OK	DE Review	Discipline/DE
Approved for DE delivery; instructor new to DE	Fast track with OK	As Needed	Discipline/DE
Change in DE delivery	DE Review	As Needed	Discipline/DE

[Note from curriculum preparation meeting, 9/13: Instructors who have received a degree or have been certified for teaching online would have their first course proposal reviewed to demonstrate understanding].

Next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 20th, noon.

Minutes taken by mp.