Instructional Services
SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY
COLLEGE DISTRICT
Volume 3, Issue 1 • Fall 2007
Online Learning Pathways
City • Mesa • Miramar • Continuing Education
Engaging Students to be Active Learners
Successful online courses are those that change the approach to learning
where students are no longer passive recipients of lectures and information. Having students click from webpage to webpage, or reading textbased documents on-screen misses the opportunity to make online learning interactive and exciting. Our goal this year is to work with faculty to
develop online courses in which students will be actively engaged with the course material to foster learning and the desire to learn more. Student learning and success are
achieved when online courses encourage collaboration with classmates and the instructor as well as provide frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback. We
have wonderful communication tools built into our course management system that
encourage active student learning and student-to-student interaction. Let’s make the
best use of the online learning environment. We can show you how!
— Andrea Henne, EdD, Dean, Online & Distributed Learning
15 Online Courses Displayed at 2007 Online Best Practices Showcase
Miramar College was this year’s host site for the 2007 Online Best Practices Showcase & Expo
on April 20, 2007. Over 120 people attended the event, which included a keynote address by
Dr. Frank K. Christ, Professor Emeritus of CSU Long Beach, author of 100 Things Every Online
Student Ought to Know and presentations by online faculty. The highlight of the afternoon was
the demonstrations by faculty of the online courses that were selected to be recognized for one
of the following outstanding achievement categories:
Exemplary Course Design
Faculty Training
Workshops
Designing and Teaching
with WebCT Vista
Instructional
Technology Tools
Effective
Communication in the
Online Course
Working with Online
Teams
Visit the Faculty
Training Site for details:
www.sdccdonline.net
Interaction & Collaboration to Create a Learning
Community
Use of Technology to Enhance Learning
Assessment and Evaluation Techniques
Fast Facts:
Learner Support
• The number of online instructors
Adaptation of Publisher Content to Meet Specific Learning Outcomes
teaching during summer session has
grown by 40%. Summer 2007 was
taught by 172 online instructors up
from 123 instructors in Summer 2006.
2007 Exemplary Online Courses
ACCT 116A—Financial Accounting—Roger Gee, Mesa College
• There was a 38% growth in Summer
ACCT 120—Federal Income Tax—Alan Viersen, Miramar College
2007 online course offerings compared to Summer 2006. Miramar
showed a 23% growth, City, 41%
growth, and Mesa, 46% growth in
summer online offerings.
AVIA 105—Intro to Aviation & Aerospace—Amy Fraher, Miramar College
BIOL 107—General Biology Lecture/Lab—Dan Trubovitz, Miramar College
CBTE 120—Computers in Business—Theresa Savarese, City College
CHEM 100/100L—Fundamentals of Chemistry/Lab—Fred Garces, Miramar College
(Continued on page 2)
• Online offerings continue to grow! The
Fall 2007 session currently has over
460 fully and partially online
courses scheduled—a 30% increase
from Fall 2006.
Online Learning Pathways
FTES from Online Classes Grows 56 Percent
Source: 2006-07 Annual FTES Report Summary, SDCCD Office of Institutional Research and Planning, July 2007
4000
City College
3500
Mesa College
San Diego Community College District
2006-2007 Annual Report Summary
FTES from Online Classes
Resident Only
Miramar College
3000
District Total
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
2005-2006 Total
WebCT/Blackboard Vista 4
Course Migration Project
All fully and partially online courses
are being moved from WebCT Campus Edition to the new Blackboard
Vista 4 Enterprise Edition platform
in Fall 2007, with the remainder
scheduled to be migrated in Spring
2008. Oncampus courses using
WebCT Campus Edition are slated
to be moved to Vista 4 beginning
Spring 2008. The WebCT Campus
Edition Server will be discontinued
in 2008.
A new session of WebCT Vista 4
training for online faculty begins
each month. The training is instructor-led and is conducted
online, following a one-hour orientation on your campus. For the
training schedule, please visit the
Online Faculty Training web page
at http://www.sdccdonline.net/
faculty.
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2006-2007 Total
(Continued from page 1)
ENGL 051—Basic Composition—Kevin Degnan, Miramar College
ENGL 056—College Reading & Study Skills—Karen Lim, City College
ENGL 205—Critical Thinking & Intermediate Composition—Gwyn Enright, City College
HIST 100—History of the United States—Dan Igou, Miramar College
MATH 095—Elem. Algebra & Geometry—Francois Bereaud, Miramar College
MATH 121—Basic Techniques of Calculus—Yakov Korzh, City College
POLI 102—American Political System—Angela Romero, Miramar College
PHYN 100—Survey of Physical Science—Magdalena Gramada, Mesa College
PSYC 245—Abnormal Psychology—Mary Meiners, Miramar College
Report from the Field: Continuing Education Offering Online Courses
by Joe McGerald, Associate Professor
Once again, Continuing Education will be offering online courses. Continuing Education had a fledgling online program several years ago, but
for a variety of reasons it was cancelled. A new program was started in
Summer session and was quite successful. For the Fall 2007 semester,
Continuing Education will offer a total of eight courses online. We hope to
grow this in the Spring and have recently completed initial training in
WebCT for over 20 instructors. Students come to campus on the first day of class to
meet with their instructor, learn how to access their online courses and how to navigate
WebCT.
Online Student Feedback Survey Results from Spring 2007
The purpose of the survey was to measure the attitudes and opinions of students who took online
courses in the Spring 2007 semester. There were 7,373 emails sent out by the SDCCD Office of
Institutional Research starting on April 24, 2007, inviting students to participate in this survey.
From these emails, 982 students (13 %) responded to the survey.
Student Preparation for Online Courses. The majority of respondents (66.3%) had previously
taken an online course. Only 27% of respondents reported completing the Online Learning Readiness Assessment.
Student Experience with Online Courses. Most respondents reported that they visited their online
course a few times a week and spent between 1 and 5 hours logged into the class per week.
When asked “If you were given the choice between an online course and a face-to-face oncampus
course, how likely is it that you would take another online course?” the majority of respondents
reported being very likely or likely to take another online course.
Technical Support. Most respondents felt comfortable navigating online and had a positive experience using the online course tools. Of the 24 percent of respondents who received technical
support, most (97%) reported that the technical support was helpful.
Communication. Most respondents felt they could communicate effectively with the instructor
and their fellow students. However about 12% reported that they were not able to effectively
communicate with their instructor. Of the students who dropped their course, lack of adequate
communication with the instructor was a major reason for dropping the online course. The majority of respondents were satisfied with the interaction with their online classmates.
Perception of Learning. Most respondents (42%) rated the amount learned to be about the same
for an online course compared to a traditional classroom course. 36% rated the amount learned
to be much more or somewhat more. Over half of the total respondents reported greater enjoyment for the online course method compared to a traditional classroom course. However about
21% reported that they preferred the traditional classroom course and another 16% reported the
experience about the same.
Summary
♦
Most students were satisfied with their online course experience and were likely to choose
another online course in the future.
♦
Online students agree that they can communicate effectively with other students and the
course instructor
♦
Generally, online students enjoy the online learning method and feel they learn about the
same amount as a traditional classroom course.
Source: SDCCD Office of Institutional Research and Planning, May 2007
Online Learning Pathways
2007- 08 Staff
Listening to Our Students’
Voices
What Online Course Would you
Like to Take in the Future?
N=263
English
19%
Any course
19%
Math
18%
History
9%
Computer
6%
Spanish
5%
Biology
5%
Child Develop. 5%
Psychology
5%
Business
5%
Accounting
3%
Sociology
2%
Sample of Student Comments:
“Online courses force you to
actually read the entire chapter
to enable you to keep up with
assignments, where “classroom”
course makes you relax and
neglect the needed reading of
materials.
“The discussion boards are very
valuable. In class sometimes
students don’t speak up because they are embarrassed but
in the online class it’s no big
deal to ask a question or post a
comment.”
“The online classes appear to
stay on schedule better than
oncampus classes—when there
is a good instructor, and even
without I feel I learn more. The
fact that I can come and go as I
am able is huge. Online it appears there are more learning
tools than on campus classes.”
“I appreciate the time saved not
traveling to class and the ability
to work anytime”
“Above all other considerations,
the flexibility to work on my own
time instead of having set class
times has allowed me to take as
many classes as I have.”
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Online Learning Pathways
Fully Online Course
All course meetings are conducted
online with no oncampus instruction or
oncampus exams.
Partially Online Course
The course has at least one class
meeting or exam on campus.
Web-Enhanced Course
The course is taught entirely oncampus and uses WebCT as a supplement.
Online Learning Pathways
2007- 08 Staff
Andrea Henne, EdD
Dean
Online & Distributed Learning
ahenne@sdccd.edu
619-388-6750
Mary Kingsley
Senior Secretary
mkingsle@sdccd.edu
619-388-6974
David Giberson, PhD
Instructional Design Coordinator
dgiberso@sdccd.edu
619-388-7332
Kathryn Oristian
Instructional Design Coordinator
koristia@sdccd.edu
619-388-7327
Julie Campbell Moss
Hourly Instructional Design Coord.
jcmoss@sdccd.edu
619-388–7331
Alex Owens
Hourly Instructional Design Coord.
owens@sdccd.edu
619-388-7331
Kim Johnson
Information Assistant
kjohnson@sdccd.edu
619-388-7329
24/7/365 Helpdesk
Toll free (866) 271-8794
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Two New Instructional Designers Join the Staff
Dr. Dave Giberson came to us in March 2007 from Georgia where he
was Coordinator of Educational Technology at Chattahoochee Technical College. He is a retreaded old chemist (his words!) with a doctorate
in Organic Chemistry and many years of experience in the classroom,
as an IT director and instructional technologist. He has been involved
in distance education since 1998, has taught online and has trained
faulty in the use of distance education technologies. His special interests in online education include the application of multimedia and video
technologies. Dave has been conducting summer workshops for faculty on Breeze, Camtasia and Wimba and will continue to offer more workshops this
Fall.
Katie Oristian has been employed with SDCCD Online Learning
Pathways on an hourly contract since February, so many of you may
already have had the opportunity to work with her. She has been a
faculty trainer with our WebCT Vista 4 online course migration program, served as a WebCT Vista 4/Campus Edition administrator,
and has assisted many of our faculty members at Continuing Education, City, Mesa, and Miramar Colleges to help develop their online
courses.
Katie started her career as a high-tech IT consultant in the Bay Area where she
learned various multimedia technologies and instructional delivery tools. Prior to
coming to the SDCCD, Katie spent two years teaching English at a community college in Ecuador where she became bilingual in Spanish. Katie brings the
online learning student perspective to her work since she is also an online student at
San Diego State University where she is completing her Master's in Educational
Technology.
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT FOR NEW AND EXPERIENCED ONLINE FACULTY
Our SDCCD Online Learning Pathways staff of Instructional Design Coordinators are available
to serve you. We provide instructional technology training, online course design and development, and any support you need to prepare and deliver your online or web-enhanced courses
either at the Online Faculty Development Center, W-222, 9315 Hillery Drive, San Diego
92126, or with you at your campus faculty office.
A new session of Vista 4 training begins each month. The training is conducted online, following a one-hour orientation on your campus. For the training schedule, please visit the Online
Faculty Training web page at http://www.sdccdonline.net/faculty.
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3375 Camino del Rio South
San Diego, CA 92108-3883
619-388-6500
Board of Trustees: Marty Block, J.D., Rich Grosch, Maria Nieto Senour, Ph.D., Bill Schwandt,
Peter Zschiesche
Constance M. Carroll, Ph.D., Chancellor
The SDCCD is governed by its Board of Trustees. No oral or written representation is binding
on the San Diego Community College District without the express approval of the Board of
Trustees.
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