ACADEMIC REPORT FOR 2004-2005

August 1, 2005

OSU Extended Campus Academic Report for 2004-2005

The goals of the OSU Extended Campus have been developed to support and complement the overarching institutional goals of OregonStateUniversity. The rapidly changing educational needs of a growing “non-traditional” population of P-Lifelong learners and economic trends that forecast a continuing and permanent decline in state funding for higher education have focused the mission of Ecampus on two critical elements of Oregon State University’s changing future: the development of an infrastructure and relevant inventory of academic programs that will serve and support the needs of the growing OSU non-resident, non-traditional, P-12, and Summer Session student body; and the generation of revenue sources that will support the academic partners of Ecampus and help mitigate the impacts of the loss of state funding.

Ecampus Vision

Through leadership, service, and partnerships, Ecampus extends OSU’s programs of excellence to diverse learners of all ages.

  1. 2004-2005 Highlights

a. Programmatic achievements

Initiatives in support of teaching

  • Individually trained 20 new instructors to use Blackboard to teach OSU online courses.
  • Provided“after hours” Blackboardinstructional support via Blackberry linkage (email and phone).
  • Advanced the Blackboard toolset skills of 19 existing online instructors (online testing, Blackboard Gradebook, and new uses of discussion boards).
  • Reviewed all Ecampus facilitated courses including Bacc Core and WIC courses and provided full support to assist instructors with meetingall standards associated with OSU Academic Program’s initiatives to convert all courses to maintaining documented measurable learning outcomes.
  • Distributed a new online course development RFP to all OSU faculty/instructors. Results: 14 new online courses developed in partnership between Ecampus and OSU instructors.
  • Delivered “Teaching Science Online” Forum to OSU faculty/instructors. 44 participants.
  • Sponsored or co-sponsored 6 Blackboard teaching and learning clinics. Results: 26 instructors trained.
  • Redesigned (for ease of use and expressed needs of instructors) the Ecampus Blackboard teaching and learning tutorials and faculty course development website.
  • Worked with instructors to locate all online courses and supporting teaching and learning materials “inside” Blackboard to enable instructors better and easier access to their own materials. That is, empowering instructors to easily edit their course content independently.
  • Providedcopyright tracking for materials to be used in an OSU Online course.
  • Developed and distributed an instructor’s manual (in hardcopy and on the web) to all instructors who teach online courses through Ecampus. The instructor’s manual provides necessary information for online instructors in OSU policies and regulations, standards for course design and instruction, grading procedures, pay arrangements, and Blackboard tutorials.
  • Developed and delivered a faculty-centered electronic newsletter, “Faculty E-News.” These are news items which include information about detecting plagiarism, Blackboard tips, featured instructors; pertinent reminders are now regularly provided to support instructors.
  • Developed an online forum for instructors to have dialogue and discussion on topics such as "teaching and learning online.”
  • Drafted a course/instructor evaluation matrix to provide team-based peer reviewof online teaching beginning in 2006.

Major research/scholarship initiatives

  • N/A

Major outreach/engagement initiatives

  • Dean and Associate Dean continued to meet quarterly with the OUS Deans of Distance Education Committee made up of deans and directors from all OUS four-year institutions.
  • Established collaborative partnerships with Columbia Gorge, BlueMountain, and Portland (Sylvania Campus) community colleges creating “multiple pathways” for dual enrolled students to complete their OSU degrees.
  • Participated in the annual OSU Community Food Drive doubling contributions from 2004.
  • Facilitating the development of the VirtualTribalCollege. Organizing and participating in meetings designed to have all nine Oregon tribes engaged in the creation of the first VirtualTribalCollege in the United States.
  • Participation of Dean McCaughan in the Northwest Accreditation Association review for IdahoStateUniversity
  • Ongoing conversations with ChinaNormalUniversity on partnership and student/teacher exchanges.
  • Participation in theOregon Telecommunications Coordinating Council Subcommittee.
  • Institutional representative to the Council on Extension, Continuing Education, and Public Service; Western Cooperative for Educational Technology; University Continuing Education Association;and the American Distance Education Consortium.
  • Participation in OSU In Portland initiative (Dean McCaughan was former Chair of Committee).
  • Summer Enrichment Program: Pre-college Academic Success (PAS)

Total Budget: $15,000 from GEAR UP; $15,000 matching from OSU Extended Campus = $30,000. Program Dates: July 5 - July 15, 2005. PAS is a two-week residential preview of college for 17 high school junior and senior level students. Participants experienced university life, visited and explore all OSU colleges/departments and degrees, and earn 2 college credits while learning strategies for succeeding in university level academic programs.

  • College Awareness Program: College Awareness/Career Preparation (CACP) Total Budget: $5,000 from GEAR UP; $5,000 matching from OSU Extended Campus = $10,000. Program Dates: April 11 - June 10, 2005 CACP is an online career preparation course combined with a one-day visit to campus to meet with college advisors offered to 16 sophomore and junior level high school students. Participants completed a 9-week online course, received 0.5 high school credits. Participants came to OSU main campus for a culminating event to get a glimpse of college life and talk with advisors about their academic interests.

(Both of these programs were targeted toward students from economically distressed areas of Oregon to help meet the education and training needs of Oregon's future workforce).

  • OSU K-12 Online: OSU Extended Campus hosts OSU K-12 Online which provided 24 high school and middle school courses offered online and some as a combination of online with videoconferencing to students across the nation.
  • SiletzValleyEarlyCollegeAcademy: OSU/Extended Campus is working with the Siletz Tribe to create the SiletzValleyEarlyCollegeAcademy. This will be a charter school with a major portion of the curriculum online where the courses have Native American cultural relevance imbedded in the curriculum.
  • Hispanic Project: OSU/Extended Campus is working with Intel Latino Network, WSU, and the Department of Education to create more opportunities for Mexican, Latino, and Hispanic students of all ages in Oregon. This Pre-K through a lifetime project will involve content of courses being translated into Spanish to be offered online.
  • GEAR UP Grant Proposal--Campus Wide P-12 Outreach: The Extended Campus P-12 Outreach program is helping in a Federal GEAR UP grant proposal that will allow us to engage a cohort of students, starting with 6th and 7th graders, in many college awareness and college preparation activities over the next 7 years.
  • Summer Session - Summer Session supports the following outreach/engagements: Free noon concerts every Wednesday from June through to September; and free Summer Film Series every Friday from June through to August.OSU Summer Theater is also open to the public.
  • Invited Speakers:

Fisher, D. (June, 2005). Quality Standards for Developing Online Courses. 2005 Distance Learning Summit. Coos Bay/SWOCC, Oregon.

Luton, T.(March, 2005) Evaluating Technology’s Impact on EETT Grantees: Accountability Lessons for Districts, NWCCE

Merickel, M. (October 14, 2004). Real Time – Your Time: Trends in Distance Education. 2004 Oregon Connections, Telecommunications Conference. Bend, Oregon.

Merickel, M. & Lechuga, J. (September 28, 2004). Crossing Borders with Distance Education: Best Practices in Cross-National Teaching and Learning at a Distance (Pre-Conference). 2004 University Continuing Education Association Region West Regional-International Conference. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Merickel, M. (June, 2005). The Impact of Course Design on Quality. 2005 NUTN Conference, San Francisco.

McCaughan, W (January, 2004). Chair of Membership, Chair of Web-based Education Presentation at Pacific Telecommunications Council Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI.

McCaughan, W. (April, 2004). Chair of Preconference Workshop at UCEA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

McCaughan, W. (November, 2004). WCET Panel Presentation, The Next-Generation Organization: Strategic Planning for Smart Change, New Orleans, LA.

McCaughan, W. (June, 2005). NUTN Presentation, via distance, on Thirty-Two Trends in Distance Learning, Lessons from the West, San Francisco.

Minear, P. and Templeton, L. (October 2004) Developing and Implementing the New Generation of Online Student Services Tools, UCEA West, Guadalajara, Mexico.

Minear, P. and Templeton, L (April 2005) Captivating and Cultivating Students in an Online World, UCEA Annual Conference, Boston, MA.

National/International impact of programs and initiatives

  • Ecampus online courses and facilitated college programs reached students living in every state and 14 foreign countries.
  • Ecampus together with the OSUArtDepartment offered an “animation” course/program in Nanjing, China for 20 university students from Nanjing Art Institute.
  • Summer Session provided outreach opportunities to a variety of locations throughout the state, nationand the world including (Oregon) Redmond, Prineville, Portland, Salem, Bend, Hood River, Pendleton, and Union; (OSU) Hatfield Marine Science Center; (Nationally) Salmon River, Idaho, Oahu Hawaii and (Internationally) Paris France.
  • Ecampus online was recognized by the National University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) with six national awards.

b. Faculty recognition and awards

  • ANS 312, Applied Animal Nutrition: Feedstuffs and Ration Formulation, won a silver awardfrom the Association for Communication Excellence for Distance Education and Instructional Design. Instructor Patrick French and graduate student Annette Buyseriedesigned the course with assistance from the Ecampus Project Development Team.
  • Ecampus InstructorNamed to Fish & WildlifeCommission- Dan Edge, Department Chair of Fisheries and Wildlife and Ecampus instructor at OSU,was appointed by Gov. Kulongoskias a member of the Oregon Fish& Wildlife Commission. The commission forms state programs and policies for the management of fish and wildlife resources. Dr. Edge is an internationally recognized wildlife ecologist and award-winning Ecampus instructor.
  • Instructor Honored with Women of Achievement Award- Rebecca Concepionwashonored asthe first student to win the community's Women of Achievement award. Concepion, who teaches HHS 231 for Extended Campus, is also a doctoral candidate in Exercise and Sports Science,and has been recognized for her research on the role of physical activity in the healing process of domestic violence survivors. The award is sponsored by OSU's Women's Center and the Community Alliance for Diversity.
  • Oregon Sports Lottery Scholarship winner - Rebecca Concepcion –Ecampus instructor for HHS 231 and 241 -
  • OSU 2004 University Day - Amongthe OSU faculty and staff honored on September 21 were the following instructors who also teach courses through Ecampus: Donna Champeau, Public Health - OSU Faculty Teaching Excellence Award; Rebecca Warner, Sociology - Elizabeth P. Ritchie Distinguished Professor Award; Clara Pratt, Human Development & Family Sciences - D. Curtis Mumford Faculty Service Award; Leslie Davis Burns, Design & Human Environment - Richard M. Bressler Senior Faculty Teaching Award and the Beaver Champion Award.
  • OSU Exemplary Employee Award - Paula Minear, Ecampus Director of Department & Student Services Director.

c. Student recognition and awards

  • OSU Extended Campus student Christine Roberts was selected as the UCEAWestern RegionOutstanding Nontraditional Student at the 2004 University Continuing Education Association held inGuadalajara, Mexico. Ms. Roberts, an older than average student with a family and a disability,overcame a myriad of difficulties to persevere and finish herLiberal Studies degree, magna cum laudein June, 2004. After winning the regional award last September, Christine Roberts wasselectedto receive the prestigious National Outstanding Continuing Education Student Award. She traveled to Boston in March 2005 tospeak at the national conference and receiveher award. Ms. Roberts, who finished her bachelor's degree though OSU Ecampus in June 2004, is now employed in the federal government.

2. Strategic Plan Implementation

What worked:

  • Increased student services available for online and distance students
  • Implementation of new StudentCommunicationCenter
  • Integration of Summer Session into the Extended Campus
  • Creating scalable systems for growth of OSU Distance Education
  • Outreach to colleges and departments with RFPs for new courses and programs/unit support with new revenue agreements
  • Relationship with registrar and other central services as Ecampus continues to integrate into the “mainstream” of the University’s systems
  • Membership and participation on the Faculty Senate, Faculty Senate Distance Education Committee and FS Curriculum Committee.

Areas that need improvement:

  • Working with colleges to identify and build programs based on student needs for Distance Education/Onlineprograms
  • Improve reliability of Blackboard
  • Fundraising
  • Journal articles and research

Barriers:

  • OSU needs a clear definition of whatis an online/distance student as identified in Banner.
  • The current process of degree program identification and development for students dual enrolled in both an OregonCommunity College and OSU in light of the “multiple pathways” as a fundamental part of the dual enrollment initiatives.

b. Summarize major unit activities during 2004-2005 that helped promote one or more of the thematic areas

Progress in Thematic Areas:

Understanding the origin, dynamics, and sustainability of the Earth and its resources

  • Professional Certificate in GIScience. Ecampus and Department of Geosciences have offered an extremely popular professional certificate program in Geographic Information Science.

Optimizing enterprise, technological change and innovations

  • Ecampus continues to embrace technological changes and advancements in its delivery of OSU classes and programs to OSU’s distance students worldwide.

Realizing the potential of the life sciences and the optimal delivery of public health services in healthy environments

  • Ecampus and the College of Health and Human Science, Department of Public Health developed and delivers a graduate certificate in HealthCare Administration to working adults around the state of Oregon. This successful program partners with St. CharlesMedicalCenter in Bend and Samaritan Health Services.

Managing natural resources that contribute to Oregon’s quality of life, and growing and sustaining natural resources-based industries in the Knowledge Economy

  • Ecampus delivers a wide range of courses and programs in the natural resource field. Degrees are offered at a distance in both Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources.
  • Ecampus and the College of Forestry are offering an 18 credit Wallowa Resources Field Program delivered in WallowaCounty.

Building and maintaining a strong curriculum and basic inquiry in the arts and sciences that contributes to all part of the University

  • New Summer Session programs
  • Online degree for Distance students in Liberal Studies
  • Minors available online in Political Science and Anthropology
  • Summer Enrichment Program: Pre-college Academic Success (PAS)
  • College Awareness Program

3. Other initiatives and their outcomes (e.g. Faculty/Staff Professional Development Activities)

NAME / POSITION / PROFESSIONAL GOAL / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES 2004-05
Alvarez, Terry / CommunicationCenter Specialist / New to Staff
Bailey, Vickie / Course Coordinator / Quickskills Online Grammar;
Quickskills Online Beg. Excel
Social Affairs Committee
Babcock, Carol / Business Manager / HR Committee
UCEA West, Treasurer
Bradoch, Alfonso / Assistant Director, DSS / Social Affairs Committee
Member, UCEA
Barry, Martin / Director, Summer Session / Community For Academic Success -
OSU Infectious Diseases Response Team
E.E. Wilson Scholarship Committee
Diversity Task Force
9/04 presented at the WASSA Annual Meeting: Annual Reports and other Administrative Reports
11/04 presented at the NAASS Annual Meeting: Summer Special Events
Bell, Kay / Enrollment Coordinator / Presentation: Recruitment and Retention Online, for Pacific Assn of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, November 7, 2004.
National Assn of Academic Advisors, Attend Regional Conference, April 21, 2005.
Present at the Dual Admission Summit on the OSU campus, May 5, 2005, Online Student Services For Online Dual Enrolled Students.
Served as Secretary for Community Higher Education Consortium for the year 2004-05. (This group does education fairs for industry employees in the northwest.)
Cavalier, Ian / Website and Design Specialist / .NET training at BSG;
IPN Internet Marketing Workshop in Portland (3/8);
QuickSkills "Design Projects for Adobe Illustrator CS";
SeaFest 2005 at HMSC (6/25);
WebVisions 2005 in Portland (7/15)
Chamberlin, Martha / Director, PD&T / New to Staff
Caughey, Mary / CC Pathways Coordinator / Quickskills Javascript Programming for the Web. New to Staff.
Dupont, Jessica / Assistant Director,
Marketing / Internet Marketing Workshop (March 2005);
Presented to Health Care Managers in Portland (Oct. 2004) to recruit for HCA program.
Was pregnant and on 3-month leave for most of ’04-05 – so didn’t take advantage of professional development like I would have (i.e. would have gone to UCEA Boston to present)
Fisher, Dianna / Assistant Director, PD&T / Staff Meeting Planning Committee
Social Affairs Committee
Two Search committees
Presenter at Summit at the Coast – Conference on Distance Learning in May 2005
QuickSkills – VB .NET
Membership UCEA
Folz, Amy / Student Services Assistant / New to Staff
Jeter, Brett / Student Services
Lamley, Juanita / Assistant Professor/Coordinator of Continuing Professional Development / Distance Learning Conf. 04
Student Assessment Symposium 04
Distance Learning Administrators Conf. 05
Lind, Lorrie / Administrative Assistant / Quickskills Online Grammar
Logue, Gayle / Web Systems Analyst / Social Affairs Committee. Staff meeting planning committee.
Luton, Tryna / K12 Coordinator / UCEA Member
OETC Member
Northwest Regional Educational Labs Site Review Committee Member
Corvallis Online Advisory Committee Member
Oregon Online Leaders—Chair
SiletzValley Early CollegeAcademy Steering Committee and Curriculum Committee—Co-Chair
Mexican Partnership Steering Committee Member
National Educational Computing Conference Presenter
Alaska Society for Technology in Education Presenter
Martins, Mandy / Receptionist / Data Warehouse and Banner
Training
Minear, Paula / Director, Department and Student Services / WCET
UCEA
Merickel, Mark / Associate Dean / UCEA, Institutional Representative
UCEA West, National Board Representative
UCEA Commission on Futures and Markets, Commissioner
UCEA Futures and Markets Committee on Multilevel, Multiyear Planning, Chair
UCEA West 2004 International-Regional Conference Program, Co-Chair
OSU Curriculum Council, member
OSU Academic Regulations Committee, Member
OSU Administrator Computer Users Group (ACUG), Member
OSU AISAC, Member
Bill McCaughan / Dean / UCEA, Chair, Distance Learning Community of Practice; Vice Chair; UCEA Commission on Learning, Instruction, and Technology; WCET Steering Committee; Member, ADEC Program Panel; Institutional Representative, NASULGC; Executive Committee, CECEPS; Board of Directors, Pacific Telecommunications Council; OSU Representative, Western Governors Association; member, NW Association of Schools and Colleges; Oregon Telecommunications Coordinating Council, Healthcare Education Committee; Advisory Board, Hatfield Marine Sciences Center
McMath-Walton, Moina / CommunicationCenter Coordinator / Social Affairs Committee
Montgomery, Penny / Office Manager / HR Committee; Co-Chair IT Committee
Moore, Dave / Summer Enrichment Program Coordinator / New to Staff
Powell, Maurine / Assistant to the Director, Summer Session / Social Affairs Committee;
OSU Infectious Diseases Response Team; Cooperative Learning Group (CLG) Workshops; Annual Accrual Training; SS Advisors Luncheon
Association of Office Professionals
Reuter, Ron / Assistant Professor, Natural Resources Program / Activities: Society of Wetland Scientists Annual Meeting, Seattle, July04; Soil Science Society Association Annual Meetings, Seattle, Nov04; Society for Ecological Restoration, NW Branch meeting, Seattle, Feb05 (presented posted on Ecampus FOR445 course); Workshop for soils computer-based curriculum (NSF grant), Lincoln, NE, Jun03.
Memberships: Soil Science Society of America, Society of Wetland Scientists, Oregon Soil Science Society (treasurer),
Richardson, Helen / Purchasing Agent / Staff Meeting Planning Committee
Community Network Annual Mtg.
CECN Luncheons: “Minding Our Own Business’”, “Ethical Implications of Planning Events & Applicable Oregon state laws”,”Take your Event Beyond Expectations”,”All About University Marketing”
OSU Training Days “Risky Business”
Adult CPR
2005 OSU Event Planners Tradeshow
AOP Fall Conference
Petty, William / Instructor, English Department / Feb 2004, presented a paper at the Annual Far West Popular Culture Association Conference. Title: “’In Other People’s Mouths’: Dialogic Interaction in Rick Moody’s The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions.”
I also chaired the session on “Literature and Death.”
Later in the year I published a revised copy of “’In Other People’s Mouths’” in Popular Culture Review15.1 (2004)
In Feb 2005, I attended the Far West Popular Culture conference and presented a paper on the poet Donald Hall. Title: “’A Manipulation of Symbols’: Life Work and the Limits of Autobiography.”
I also chaired the session—“Literature: From Proust to Estleman.”
Pelroy, Carlene / Accountant / HR Committee
Paula Minear / Director, DSS / WCET
UCEA
Templeton, Lisa / Director, Marketing / UCEA West Awards Committee, Judge; , Presenter, UCEA West –Guadalajara; Presenter UCEA National Conference, Boston; Faculty Senate; Ecampus Diversity Committee; American Marketing association, Market Research Boot camp, San Fran.
John Thompson / Web Systems Coordinator / UCEA Distance Learning Community of Practice(Chair of Membership)
Attened 90TH annual UCEA convention in Boston (and presented on SEO/SEM)
OSU C2D Committee
OSU DAM Committee
Attended WebVisions 2005 in Portland
Wallace, Linda / Marketing and Publications Coordinator / QuickSkills Web Design
QuickSkills PhotoShop 7
OSU Day in Salem
Seafest at HMSC in Newport
Williams, Sarah / Assistant to the Dean / MWHR Workshops; UCEA Distance Learning Community of Practice. Chair of the Campus Diversity Task Force, C2D.

4. Scorecard