MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

i. Terry Pollard wanted to thank everyone for their feedback regarding the Teaching Effectively Online Course. They took all comments into consideration when deciding what information needed to be updated before the start of the fall course offering. ii. There are currently 286 graduates of the Teaching Effectively course at this time. It appears as the course has been successful based on participant feedback via the course survey. Ninety percent felt that the course information provided was clear and ninety-two percent felt that the information was meaningful. iii. State board identified the top five to ten facilitators and those that were not receiving good feedback. This information will prove beneficial when moving forward with future course offerings. iv. The fall 2008 course will begin Monday, October 20 th . Terry will provide the DLCs with a spreadsheet for the new course. He will also send flyers for marketing purposes. v. Terry stated that he would like to update the course so that the modules and lessons are built directly into Blackboard and Desire2Learn. He would also like to provide better instructions on how the participants can complete their assignments. vi. In the future, Terry would like to expand the existing five modules into more detailed training courses. For instance, he would like to consider creating an additional three week module on Assessments, etc. The training subcommittee added that they felt that this type of breakout training would be a more practical approach to virtual training. Jennifer Leimer stated that we should provide a good description and outline of the professional development courses that we provide so that the instructors will sign up the course that is more appropriate for their needs. The quality committee discussed evaluations, course quality, quality for students in terms of tutoring (starfish), etc. during the Focus Session at Boot Camp. The committee feels that there should be a standard evaluation form that can be used state-wide. The key is to collaborate on questions that all schools in the MSVCC need answered. Any survey tool created will be brought to the DLC Association for approval. ii. Tish stated that each school may also want to receive input from their Institutional Research personnel on questions that should be answered for online courses that can be included in this evaluation tool.

b. TECHNOLOGY – CHRIS SQUARE. Tabled.

c. QUALITY – JENNIFER LEIMER i.

d. SUPPORT – AUDRA LEVERTON. Tabled

e. ADMINISTRATION – TISH STEWART i.

The administration committee discussed adding overall MSVCCC Goals for the Strategic Plan and then updating each committee goals. The goals that are complete, from the previous version of the strategic plan, will be removed and new goals/objectives will be added. This information will be finalized during the meeting on Wednesday, October 8 th from 9:00a.m.-12:00p.m.

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