Starting off talking about dates for upcoming meetings, looking at conflicts with upcoming conferences; Rick: our next QID is April 22nd, then July 15th
How is CE going to handle the Federal mandates regarding textbooks and course
Agenda Additions and random things:
- Jen: +agenda, something about faculty and flexible design and quality (faculty made a mistake and lead faculty thought we were responsible)
- Alicia: can we get a list of books available through MBS or other sources that are available as eTextbooks
- What do sight impaired students do with traditional textbooks? Response to Kindle getting sued for accessibility issues
- iPad might be available for the Blue Team, maybe in time for June (Mobile eLearning conference)
- Jen: collaborative markup for PDF’s that we’re sharing
Kathy and New Texbook Policy & Quickbase
- goal is to drive down costs for the students by giving them choices through a more transparent process of listing required materials
- required textbooks (ISBN) must be listed with the course listings in the catalog
- this will somehow affect GRS 3 & 4 partners
- we should get recommendations for Summer (by Feb 1st) and Fall 2010 (by March 1st), work with the faculty
- we’ll have new confirmation deadlines in PACTS, when Erica sends us information about checking the confirmations… review them carefully because there will be differences
- Destiny One has been given the green light and will replace ODIN, ISSO, and ?
- Quickbase can handle time tracking
- IP agreements, author forms for new and revised (50% or more) editions to Kathy, this will all be happening in Quickbase – ask El about this
<!–Michael's Brazilian network didn't seem like a network to me. It was a pyramid structure of dissemination of learning up and down. To me networks are multi-nodal and experts are accessible by all. It was a creative use of limited resources, but I still wouldn't define this as a network.
–>Literature Review w/ Wenyi
- Paula: Alignment – a good theme, learning outcomes > activities > interaction > assessments – all must align
- How will the formative assessment … are we using formative assessments? If not, why not? How might I collaboratively assess communal activities (blogs, wikis, etc.)?
- I have to look at the process of peer reviews and mechanisms in ANGEL that can facilitate those reviews. How would students read feedback given from others?
- Andrea: we have to focus on working with faculty, as they may have a very different perspective on assessment. We should be knowledgeable about a number of different assessment types and be able to help faculty members think through their thought processes and design of assessments.
- Rick: to do assessment well takes a lot of time… that’s a big problem. The articles need to accommodate for different subject matter areas, learner levels, etc. – to general.
- Wenyi – do we assess collaboration, if so how? Andrea it depends upon the content area? Paula – scientific inquiry is a process, how do we extend that in to distance learning? Rick: do we grade the collaboration or the summative event (a paper or a presentation)?
- Wenyi – what about computer-based tools that might be available that could assist with the grading processes (A.I.) Rick: is this good or bad? is this authentic teaching. Wenyi: it might be better than nothing
Team Updates
Equella – Stephanie will be taking it out to the Campuses. What about CE@UP? March 31 – images, multimedia objects, not lessons, stuff that we own (not copyrighted), videos (talk to Dean about getting things into the Flash media server), etc. uploaded by designers; Rick has a template for a white paper
iPad – what does it represent to us, how can it benefit us and our learner? El will get one and we can look at it then. How will we handle apps? Who’s account will be tied to the device?
