Agenda: DE Advisory Committee Meeting 20/10/11 4:00 PM
1.
Review of committee charge. Addresses what this committee should be doing - serves as
a resource for the focus of how Distance Education should be proceeding in the future.
http://mycr.redwoods.edu/access/content/group/0bc32619-15d9-4d54-a7adb87a210a3f2a/DE-Advisory-Info
2.
Expanding membership to include members of the community. Tami Matsumoto and
others have sent some suggestions. (If you know members of the community that would be
interested in participating or that have a stake in DE in our area, let us know.)
3.
The future of distance education at College of the Redwoods
a. Our charge asks us to advise the “Academic Senate, faculty, staff and
administrators in matters of policy, practice, and pedagogy.”
What issues would you like to see the committee address this year?
4.
Meeting schedule, project site, and web page
Some added items from Mark Renner:
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We need to write & administer to users (principally students and faculty who use
MyCR) a "satisfaction & issues" survey re: MyCR;
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We may also need to write & administer to users (principally students) a "satisfaction
& issues" survey re: CR email;
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We may wish to review & evaluate the efficacy of the MyCR platform (usability;
feature set; actual or perceived functionality issues; Total Cost of Ownership [TCO];
responsiveness of the rSmart customer support group; etc.);
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Pursuant to results of the survey(s) and formal review of MyCR, we may wish to
initiate a pilot program (like we had planned in spring 2009 prior to Maggie Lynch's
arrival) to evaluate several possible successor Learning Management Systems (LMS)
to see if we can find one which might be better suited to our stakeholders (faculty and
students) than the current MyCR system.
We have a draft of a survey that we will present at the meeting.
Added comments/Gary Sokolow:
Technology in the classroom...Using CCC Confer and problems of the campus not being
technologically up to it