MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

The committee developed a Core Course evaluation. The purpose of this evaluation is to make sure that all ELCs are using the same evaluation when evaluating online courses. An example of the evaluation is located in the Community site. The committee would like for the group to provide suggestions and comments about the evaluation. The group will need to decide if this evaluation is something that all ELCs should be using to evaluate all online courses. This evaluation will also need to be approved by the group. The committee discussed getting rid of the Supervisor Evaluation, because no one is using it. The ELCs agreed. Also the committee suggested that a notification be sent to the online students requesting that they evaluate their online courses. It was suggested sending out a system-wide notification using the students’ email addresses in the Enrollment Tool. No decision was made on how to notify the students about course evaluations.

b. Support – Audra Leverton-Present @ Bootcamp Meeting c. Administration – Tish Stewart-Present @ October Meeting d. Best Practices – Terry Pollard-Present @ November Meeting

VIII.

Sharing Circle a. Co-Lin-August: Provided information and handouts about the online forms they use to streamline the workload in their Distance Learning office.

b. East Central-September c. East Mississippi-October

IX.

Open Forum a. Strategic Planning Committees Membership. The committee list was revised during the meeting. Keri Cole was assigned to update the list. The Community site needs to be updated with the new list. Jennifer Leimer made the motion to approve the changes made to the

committee list; Audra Leverton seconded the motion. Motion was carried. b. Enrollment Tool Batch Process. This was discussed under MBCC Business. c. Textbook Meeting. This was also discussed under MBCC Business.

d. Proctor Problems during summer semester. Jackson State students had problems with their final exams during the summer semester. When the problem occurred, the Distance Learning office at Jackson State was not available to help their students. So the group asked that USM and Jackson State’s contact information be added to the ELC contact list. These two institutions will also need to provide alternative contact information during these pressing times.

X.

Dates a. August 22 nd -Fall Online Classes Begin

b. September 6-No Shows are due from the instructors c. September 7 @ 4:30-No Shows are due to colleges d. September 27-29-Bootcamp e. September 30-e-Audit

XI.

Adjournment. The meeting was adjourned at 1:20 p.m.

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