South Central College

Online Education Committee

Meeting Agenda

November 14, 2017

C129 (North Mankato) & C23 (Faribault)

Present: Deb, Wendy, John, Jenny, Juliann, Laura

Best Practice/Cool Demo– Juliann

Approval of Minutes 10-10-17

Juliann -1st Jenny – 2nd

Follow-Up Items:

  • AQIP – on agenda below
  • Finish going through to-do list
  • Update/post information on LC website – updated procedures, forms, peer review rubric, etc.
  • Still working on this.
  • Discuss a procedure to collect data on how many faculty seek online development training from Learning Central staff
  • Tracking is being done on the number of online and hybrid individually by LC Staff.
  • Develop and implement strategy for past courses to be peer-reviewed for the first time.
  • It is recommended that the Dean’s talk about this.
  • Still need work on this.
  • Spreadsheet of training resources (conferences, OER, universal design)
  • Done – in faculty knowledge base
  • Decide if we are going to create online “boot camps” and/or navigation videos (or something else)for students
  • Student lounge in D2L for all students
  • Michael and Bryan have been providing input on the orientation.
  • Will pick this back up in Spring. Request facilitation by the advisors.
  • Still working on this.
  • Decide if we are going to develop/implement some type of online readiness assessment.
  • Promote SmarterMeasure.
  • Will look into how we can customize it
  • Complete survey of student services and make recommendations for Student Affairs.
  • Need to clarify this task.
  • Decide if we want to offer open houses to online students.
  • The first one was not well attended but need to shift it to before the semester starts.
  • Some faculty had their own that was specific to their courses.
  • Will put this on the agenda for January 2018. Plan for another Fall 2018.
  • Will have the open house in August and December/January.
  • Work with Student Affairs to figure out how to include online/hybrid students in on-campus activities. May need to survey them first to see if there is a substantial interest.
  • Still working on this.
  • Jenny commented that some students would not want to come to campus. Most already are on campus at some point.
  • Make activities available online.
  • Changing the focus of this task.
  • Faculty needs assessment for online/hybrid support.
  • LC staff will look into files left by Lisa.
  • Still working on this.
  • Student satisfaction – formally identify PSOL and SSI items for satisfaction.
  • Need clarification on this.
  • Explore how we might track student activity online
  • D2L does not have great reporting but MinnState has pulled some data in other areas.
  • Other AQIP-related tasks
  • Removing this task
  • Process for Conference Funding

Work Plan Progress:

(Review “OECStrategicPlan-Updated110116” found in D2L)

Continuing Business:

  • 6.1.1 - Identify, assess, and improve/create key areas that students need online services.

(Review “Copy of South Central College Student Tools” found in D2L)(Wendy)

  • 7.1.1-4 – Review and refine current reporting process to ensure that key metrics are included.

(Review “______” found in D2L)(Jane) – tabled until Spring, 2018

  • 1.1 (1.1.2.) - Identify and develop online methods of communication among faculty and Learning Central (LC) staff to share best/useful practices, exchange ideas, and celebrate successes.

(Review “______” found in D2L)

  • Video project (Juliann, Cassandra)
  • Lunch and Learn Dates (Katie)
  • 5.1-3 – Develop and implement practices to help student to become better academically prepared for online coursework. (Workteam) – Tabled – see 10-10 meeting minutes.

AQIP

  • Conversation with Renee – Deb & Juliann
  • Category Two
  • 2.1 – Smarter Measure – are we using this? Juliann will get data about use. How will it integrate with D2L updates?
  • PSOL and ICE surveys – used to be done annually. Does Jane have information or does the committee need to request?
  • Category One
  • 1.5

Other Announcements/Updates

  • New course proposals (Juliann)
  • Quality Matters (Deb)
  • Other Online Training Opportunities (All)
  • Learning Central updates (LC staff)
  • Accessibility Technology Committee (Juliann/Wendy)
  • Grant for captioning toolkit from the system office for online course video and establishing a process (education, vendor research and conversation, etc.).
  • Need help from faculty to work through the process.
  • Meeting Nov 29th to explain first steps. Then the work group would meet.
  • Need a rep from this committee to be on the work group. PLEASE NOTIFY RENEE GUYER IF YOU ARE INTERESTED.
  • Need volunteers to have their course reviewed to help us find out where we are at with captioning.
  • Do we want to have a December meeting so close to the end of the semester?
  • Decided to skip the December meeting due to end of semester.

Next meeting: TBD (Tentative January 2018)