OCCDLA Fall Meeting October 31 – November 1, 2013
College Updates
 Columbia Gorge Community College - Paula Ascher
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Faculty vote of no confidence for the new President
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OER Una Dailey emails: Send requests to get on her mailing list.
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OER Librarian: Quill West, from Tacoma Community College.
 Clackamas Community College - Steve Beining, Joel Sheller
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Studio Green Screen
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Promo video is available on YouTube.
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Available for students to use too.
Added learning center.
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Computer tutors and support center for students/library.
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Enrollment is down 6-7%.
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Concerns about Moodle as our vendor.
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Problems with updates.
Problems with switches upgrade.
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Considering a group conference call with David Miller, Vice President of tech support.
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They make changes to their core and don’t tell subscribers. We believe they are not testing it
before they release them out. This is termed “Agile Development” They roll it out before ready
then apologize a lot and fix it
Steve Beining is leaving Clackamas this week. He is going to Portland Community College.
 Umpqua Community College - Lorrie Ranck
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We have had several campus moves.
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Enrollment is down.
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Title III Grant is providing $2.2 million in funding over a five-year span.
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We will be able to do great and innovative things with this funding.
LMS Review: We may expand further than two terms.
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Blackboard Learn
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Canvas
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BYOD: Investigations and analysis; how impacting wireless.
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Lorrie Ranck will be leaving UCC IT + Innovation Division. She will be going to De Anza-Foothill
College in Cupertino, California, as Dean of Learning Resources.
 Central Oregon Community College - Barbara Klett
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New administrative person Kristine. Lost one person. Now there are two people in their department.
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“She is focused, innovative and a quick learner. It’s like we’ve hired five people.”
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Enrollment is down.
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Reviewing Blackboard Content and Community systems. Content makes more sense.
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Gives students more purposeful journey.
 Blue Mountain Community College - Bruce Kauss
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Recruiting for a Vice President of the student side of operations since July 1, 2013.
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Bond vote will be coming up November 10, 2013
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$28 million in new building construction.
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$4 million in tech upgrades
 Hover Cam Solo 5: Hover cameras that can pick up the whole class at $200 each.
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Blue Mountain Community College is an Achieve the Dream (ATD) school.
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Mandatory orientation on Blackboard for all degree-seeking students is required now.
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Found that they needed to add more orientations in late September to accommodate.
Implemented Smarter Measure.
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500 assessments done so far.
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It has given students a lot of resources including how to use tutorials (e.g. “How to use Office
2012”)
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Steve Smith, LBCC, asked if Bruce had seen any statistics that it helps students. Bruce
replied that it has been self-reporting and depends upon quality of input (GIGO). Some
institutions are starting to trial use and store results.
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Barbara Klett, COCC, stated that they are impressed with Smart Measure where the
faculty knows what is there and they can really push things.
 Southwestern Oregon Community College - Karen Matson
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Transition from ANGEL to e-Racer is complete
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FTE – uncertain. Thinks enrollment is up.
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Offering fewer distance courses.
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Curious about Canvas – it looks sweet. Looked at Canvas four years ago and found it intuitive, different
from Blackboard.
 Portland Community College - Loraine Schmitt
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Enrollment is down 4%. Guessing that online enrollment is up.
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Has a new President that began this summer.
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They had a kick-off in fall but the president could not attend as he was in the emergency room.
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No one knows the new rules.
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Creating online expectations.
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Working on their Strategic Plan.
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College-wide Accreditation is in process.
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Next up is online student services grant.
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The results raised visibility that we have inconsistencies in business practices campus wide.
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Interested in changing practices and moving into 20th century business models.
Online course quality.
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Faculty observation and models.
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Tracking financial aid fraud.
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Finding multiple email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers provided by some students.
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They are doing identity verification on those that the Feds asked about.
ITC fall board meeting next week.
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Ask them to support SARA.
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Asking them to maintain and not impose stricter requirements.
New rule: Veterans Living Expense.
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If they take one course then they receive payment for 100% of living expenses.
 Portland Community College - Andy Freed
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New students taking any online courses need to take an orientation
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Advisor Access to Student Assessment to determine red flags.
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Recommend resources at college
SENSE Audit
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Ask the students the same questions to see if their experiences are the same.
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Responses were fantastic.
 Portland Community College - Monica
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Implementing best practices instructional theme.
 Lane Community College - Kevin Steeves
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Brad Hinson has left LCC - Ian Coronado is in the interim position
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Central building on campus under construction. The building has four floors, 2 are in remodel
now.
Moodle
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Not much frustration. Only during migration.
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If you combine Moodle updates and Jewel updates, that is what you will get with the new version.
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Firewall was giving them problems.
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Talking with David Miller, Moodle representative.
 Rogue Community College - Rich Kirk
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FTE is up 3%.
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Transitioning from ANGEL to Blackboard.
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Live with Blackboard summer of 2014.
 SAN and one faculty building.
 Two online courses for faculty.
 Three-week classes run continuously beginning with summer.
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Rich is leaving prior to the summer term.
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Hired a new student worker.
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Closed OCCDEC checking account and transferred the money to Steffen Moller, Clackamas
Community College.
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Question: What to do with the remaining .74 cents interest?
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Counter check was $10.00 so Steffen may receive the change in the mail.
 Linn-Benton Community College - Steve Smith
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College has a new Website.
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Every day he responds to 1-2 complaints.
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Standardize everything so they don’t have to test browsers.
iLearn campus roll out - a virtual campus.
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Using Canvas LMS and Kale.
Credit units.
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Each credit unit has to have competencies.
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Each course requires a computer pre-test for course.
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Statement: These are all the competencies and these are all the assignments that lead to this
degree.
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Rolling out Business Administration degree
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Seven degrees and certificates.
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Flexible Start.
Not term based.
 To be more self-paced.
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Disaggregating the faculty role.
 Faculty members are not happy with this approach.
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Each course has:
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Developer
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Content
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Assessment person
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Navigator (Advisor)
Canvas
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Simple. People love the simplicity.
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But not as much functionality.
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Feedback tools are good for faculty.
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Political reason. It’s new and shiny.
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Canvas is one of four they have at Linn-Benton
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Received a $2.7 million grant from Department of Labor to get going in four years.
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Trying for 50% O.E.R.s
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Transferability
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Only transfer one time. Cannot transfer back and forth.
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Can’t be developmental ed students - have to complete Dev Ed classes first.
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Have to be full time.
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Open entry one time per week. Not open exit.
 Taking one course on top of another. Finish one then begin another.
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Working on what they will charge. Will be cost recovery.
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LBCC will have both “traditional online” and iLearn.
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At Linn-Benton 85% transfer to OSU
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One day seminar Predictive Analytics.
 Chemeketa Community College - Kellie Schellenberg
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FTE is down.
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Currently doing college Climate Survey and Focus Groups.
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These were evaluated by the end of the summer, 2013.
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Identified key issues.
 Communication problems.
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Preparing for Accreditation next year.
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Implementing Mandatory advising for degree-seeking students, starting winter term.
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Moved from Microsoft Exchange server to Google.
 Chemeketa Community College - Alba Scholz
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Recently created a student services workgroup in the department.
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Working on access quality for students.
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Research to find out if our information on online learning to make sure students have a good
understanding of what we offer.
Moving Website to WordPress.
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Frame work is being done now and content will be updated later.
 Mt. Hood Community College - Cat Megic
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Major reorganization January 1st , 2014.
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Curious about online orientations.
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They are using Blackboard as the main LMS and also eLearning (Jenzibar), which is an LMS light.
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Microsoft 365 license for the whole campus.