Chabot Community College
Committee on Online Learning
Minutes for Meeting: August 18, 2009
Attendees: Ramona Silver(chair), Bob Buell, Des Chun, Tom Clark, Mary Dermody, Richard Dinwiddie, Aldrian Estepa, Scott Hildreth, Michael Langdon, Jan Novak, Randi Ray, Lisa Ulibarri, Lani Wilson, Minta Winsor.
1. The Committee welcomed its newest member, Professor Aldrian Estepa who has graciously consented to take the place of Andrew Pierson.
2. Proposals left over from Spring 2009: In regard to Greg Fernandez’s online course, Bob Buell and Richard Dinwiddie will e-mail him to set up a new time for a demonstration. In regard to Rob Leadbeater, Ramona Silver will meet with Rob on Tuesday September 1, 2009 to help with his demonstration. Additionally, Aldrian Estepa will do a “log in” later in that same week.
3. The Call for Proposals Notice for Spring 2010: The incentive pay of $400.00 will be offered for the last time and the Proposals are due to the Chair on September 14, 2009.
4. Discussion of Committee Goals for Fall 2009: The chair presented a list of potential, tentative goals for the committee to pursue for Fall 2009. The list was discussed at length. The following items were discussed: We would like to encourage faculty to provide more instructor to learner interaction. Jan Novak reiterated the importance of this point. Additionally, Lani Wilson indicated that this was an essential component for assessment and accountability for the learners and learner needs. Mary Dermody recommended that we provide a rubric regarding a suggestion for time needed for student to faculty interaction. Scott Hildreth suggested that we may want to add a specific item on the proposal to account for time of the actual student to faculty interaction.
5. The Committee discussed the potential for offering a workshop on methods for instructor to learner interaction. Demonstration instruction for faculty who propose new online courses. The Chair is going to offer a “demo workshop” to aid faculty in understanding how to create a demo of their course for the demonstration protocol of the proposal process.
6. Blackboard 9 Upgrade: We will defer the actual training until Spring 2010. However, we may try to offer a brief look at Blackboard 9 for the faculty this semester Fall 2009.
7. Incentives of $250.00 for training through @One will continue to be offered this Fall 2009 Semester. A notice regarding these incentives will go out in the next few weeks.
8. We will continue to facilitate the goal for an Online Degree. Committee will determine the actual implementation of actions toward this goal throughout the Fall 09/Spring 10 Academic year.
9. There are still three items remaining to be discussed at our next meeting September 1, 2009:
a) Cultivating the integration of online learning more directly into the College.
b) Online Counseling
c) Online Tutoring
6. Jan Novak suggested that we make the published study on Online Learning Success, which she shared with us over the summer available on the COOL website. The Chair will upload this article and an additional one on the rise in online education as she edits the COOL web site.
7. Tom Clark proposed that we check the amount of students who have enrolled in online courses this semester to determine if more sections could have been opened? Minta Winsor will do a data collection for this.
8. Bob Buell informed the committee that Student Disability services will provide close captioning on Vodcasts and or Videos that are on YuTube.
9. Meeting Adjourned with our intent to continue discussing our overall mission and concerns at our next meeting, scheduled for Tuesday September 1, 2009 at Noon in room 1506.