World languages:
Challenges/Barriers to Success:
1. Increase lab hours for students:
 We are requesting the hiring of a Spanish adjunct to work part-time at the lab to respond to students
lab needs by offering a more flexible schedule. Due to the limited resources, currently the lab schedule
does not promote student-oriented learning environment.
2. Increase the percentage of full-time faculty in the department to improve program quality,
cohesion, and consistency:
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World Languages currently offers 46 sections in a year, about 23 per semester and 3 in the summer. For
2009-2010, this represents a total of 19.4 FTEF, but we will only have 3 full-time World Language
instructors. This means 16% of the FTEF is taught by full-time and 84% by part-time instructors.
In actual numbers, we have 3 full-time World Languages instructors and 12 adjunct World Language
instructors, which mean only 17% (3/17) of the faculty, are full-time.
Concretely, only 3 full-time instructors are available to recruit, hire, mentor, and evaluate 12 adjuncts as
well as trying to build a strong world language program that includes a new world language laboratory.
The 3 full-time instructors are responsible not only for the language that they work on but for the
recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and evaluating of all 12 adjuncts in e, Japanese and Spanish.
With the hire of an additional full-time faculty, four full-time instructors would still only represent 22%
(4/18) of the faculty shouldering the responsibilities of curriculum, off-site courses, a language lab, and
campus-wide professional service responsibilities.
3. Correct errors in the EMC reporting tool:
 There was a discrepancy in the data for some of the courses especially for cross-listed courses such as
French 2A/2B.
 We will be working with IT and our Dean to identify and correct errors this coming year.
IV. Next Steps: Recommendations for program and institutional improvement.
Program Improvement:
1. Critical Technology support needed:
A. Camtasia Studio ($299) and Screencast Pro ($99.95)
Two full-time instructors (C. Moon and C. Parrish) are teaching online and need the tools
necessary to provide student-centered lectures on Blackboard. As of now the District does
not offer resources nor software for :
a) video and screen capturing. This is essential in providing the instructor the tool to record
an online lecture from their computer screen with audio commenting with editing
capabilities. Thus the following software is needed ASAP: two licenses of Camtasia
Studio ($299 x 2 = $598 + tax).
b) Online video and content hosting with adequate storing capacity and bandwidth to
accommodate the high volume of students accessing and downloading the video lectures
($99.95 x 2 = $199.90 + tax). This is a yearly license for two instructors. We currently
have to accommodate at least 200 online students accessing online video lectures.
B. Wimba Voice needed
We have communicated to the Chabot Technology Committee the need of voice discussion
tool on Blackboard such as Wimba voice. The committee agreed that it will be useful tool
but we need the monetary support to at least pilot this tool as a viable tool for not only our
online students but for all Chabot students.
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Enhance the instructor’s presence and involvement with course materials
Add additional, re-usable explanations of complex concepts
Personalize engagement between instructors and students
Teach correct pronunciation and provide audible learning cues to students
Enhance the instructor’s ability to reach students who learn best by hearing,
To better address students with visual and print disabilities,
Add energy and interactivity to class discussions
Institutional Improvement:
Campus server that would support the uploading of video/audio files needed
Because of our large amount video files that we use for our hybrid/online courses, we can
not load them on Blackboard. We are using outside servers (paid by the individual
instructors) to host our videos for our students. We need a dedicated server for our
increasing need of video/audio files.