Chabot Community College

Committee on Online Learning
Minutes for Meeting: October 20, 2009

Attendees: Ramona Silver(chair), Mary Dermody, Richard Dinwiddie, Julian Prentice, Lani Wilson, Aldrian Estepa, Jan Novak, Michael Langdon, Minta Winsor, and Lisa Ulibarri.

1). Discussion and Vote on how to implement @ONE incentives for faculty this semester and for Spring 2010. Options were discussed:

• Limit the incentives to $100 ($50 for course, $50 incentive).

• Ramona will check the budget for available funds.

• Lani: Proposed that we just reimburse for the cost of the course so as to serve as many people as possible. Full time faculty can use it as their "flex commitment."

• Minta asked what the provision would be for the @ONE Winter Institute. Ramona will look into the location and costs to see if it would be reasonable to include an incentive.

2). Online Tutoring: A brief update on the status of this endeavor and also discussion on what steps we need to take. Online tutoring was approved by Title III and will be implemented (not a Faculty Inquiry Group).

• A Coordinator, software (Tutor Track), and a software specialist is needed.

• Ramona will email the FIG proposal to the COOL.

• Julian mentioned that she would be interested in coordinating this project next term.

• Ramona reported that LPC would like to look into a similar method of online tutoring and will inquire about starting it through their Title III.

• The Committee determined that Spring 2010 would be a research term and a small pilot (one or two courses).

• Lani suggested that the COOL be very involved with the selection of the online tutoring group/ personnel.

• Ramona will meet with Trish Shannon to learn more about this project.

3). Proposal Reviews: A Discussion on the status of the proposals and feedback.

• Ramona mentioned that many instructors had read the feedback provided by the committee and will respond via Blackboard.

• Susan Tong inquired as to the possibility of building a course site prior to responding to the feedback. Lani commented that this particular proposal should be brought to counseling for approval. Jan mentioned that the course needs to also go through Curriculum for approval. Ramona will send Susan an email letting her know that it is recommended that she respond to the feedback, prior to building a course site.

• Mary brought up the delay in providing feedback to those who had submitted proposals. Ramona agreed that she will send out more reminders to the committee.

• There were some concerns about the Psychology-Counseling 10 and Health 8 proposals. Ramona will follow-up with both instructors who submitted the proposals and ask them to respond to the comments.

4). Student Success Recap:

• Ramona recapped the conversation on Student Success on the minutes of the last meeting. There were some important ideas brought up, which include:

• How do you define student success?

• Some committee members shared anecdotes about their own courses and definitions of success.

• How do we really define student success in online classes? Is this and should it be different than for face to face classes?

• Richard shared that success relates to then student's understanding of the content.

• Jan commented that there needs to be a different approach to this conversation as it has been on-going for years. The discussion needs to turn to one involving Authentic Assessment. She provides a prompt that calls for a personal relation to demonstrate that the student has read, understands, and can apply the material from the course.

• Ramona suggested that we revisit this conversation once we've considered the true meaning of student success.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Lisa Ulibarri