Tag: CAPE

Deafblind Curriculum/Structure Meeting

Leslie Demmert, Kent Matsueda, Ed Donovan, Carmen Herschell, Nan Rodgers, and Shubha KashyapDiscuss the details and management of the Low Incidence Instruction CE Certificate and get information from Nan/CE on the curriculum and structure of the programTypical Participant: K-21 (K-9)…

Leslie Demmert, Kent Matsueda, Ed Donovan, Carmen Herschell, Nan Rodgers, and Shubha Kashyap

Discuss the details and management of the Low Incidence Instruction CE Certificate and get information from Nan/CE on the curriculum and structure of the program

Typical Participant: K-21 (K-9) teachers and possibly their paired para-professional (verify this)

What are the course titles going to be?
Leslie will be sharing a draft of the “Certificate Proposal”

Have the instructors already been chosen?
guest presenters have been identified, but not confirmed
course 2 – two instructors
one lead course: Nan and Victor
weeks 1-3 person x
weeks 4-6 person y, etc.

What is their experience teaching online courses?
Can we get them into OL2000
request syllabus from course 1

video??? QTSS or Flash SS

Talk with Nan about options for Video/Audio taping

we’ll need to video tape some of the course 2 instructors during the conference

When will the courses run?

How far along are they with the development of their courses?
Syllabuses due when? course details, didactic presentations and online discussions

How much time will be scheduled for each course?

How would you describe the continuity between the four courses? Student participation, content, materials, interaction, etc?

Ed mentioned an assessment tool that will be used with the courses, what is this tool?

four-course, 12-credit certificate program, courses 1 and 4 cannot be taken at the same time
http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/low-incidence/credit-information.htm

CAPE School Finanace

Erin: brainstroming sessionAttending: Erin, Bill Hartman, Tim PerryBill, reactions to the first offering? Bill: funding will dry up for school districts in three years; $350 million was removed from the state and supplanted by federal stimulus money; 07-08 to 08-09…

Erin: brainstroming session
Attending: Erin, Bill Hartman, Tim Perry

Bill, reactions to the first offering?
Bill: funding will dry up for school districts in three years; $350 million was removed from the state and supplanted by federal stimulus money; 07-08 to 08-09 is $2 billion short fall, this year another $1 billion short and then the pension hits ’13; numbers are unsustainable-bottom line; future is unknown

how do districts deal with this: 1. expenditures (teachers salaries), again not sustainable; 2. raise taxes (Act 1 – a restriction on how much property taxes can be raised, district by district taking account poor districts, up to 3-4%)

relatively few people understand the situation and that the math doesn’t add up

NCLB is looking at a 9% increase in requirements for reading 11% for math every year to get the toughest learners up since the low-hanging fruit have already been addressed in the past 4 years

this content: presentation
1 session presenting this information
then doing the model 1.75 hours (the model is a separate proprietary solution that is available for consulting outside of this context)
gotomeeting & accuconference were used to provide webinars

bill wants reactions from the audience, something he didn’t get via webinars
bill has recorded in-class presentations and have posted them ANGEL, lecture materials are online; session is use for questions and interaction

3.0 Credit and non-credit available for this program

(What are the reasons LD has shifted away iTunes U)

works best for session 4

session 5 how do you start to deal with the problem?
Bill move these up to the top

there would be “homework” (required for ACT 45) no so much more work as pre-work for the sesion
job-embedded assignments
presentation time will be allotted in the last session

individual or group work optional

Nursing Online CE Summer ’10 Update

8171A Pilot – test-out flow and function of groupsList of participantsNo creditSurveySummer Groupsmake changes given the upgrade: no GOTO function6003-6008 (see 6003 for changes)screen cap quizzes, then chuck them”You have now completed this course” change link2. Helpful Informationcheck presentation lengthsremove…

8171A Pilot – test-out flow and function of groups

  • List of participants
  • No credit
  • Survey

Summer Groups

  • make changes given the upgrade: no GOTO function
  • 6003-6008 (see 6003 for changes)
    • screen cap quizzes, then chuck them
    • “You have now completed this course” change link
    • 2. Helpful Information
      • check presentation lengths
      • remove maximize/minimize toggle button
      • remove “click here to return to the course content” link
    • 3. Presentation
      • no banner?
      • re-publish w/o toggle button
    • 4. Technical problems – add info to OTS
    • 5. AI – add alert
    • 6. Quiz
      • check feedback options
      • “all at once” questions
      • delete action
  • 6009
    • About page – text and recording?
    • Sections 1, 2, 4, 8, “You have now finished…”
    • screen cap and remove quiz
  • 6011
    • About page text
    • publish presentation
    • Sections 1, 2, 4, 8, “You have now finished…”
    • wrote Colin about deleted files??
  • 8171A
    • remove quizzes
    • reverse import from DEV?

CAPE: Leadership and Challenges in School Finance Course

Attending: Erin Garthe, Tim Perry, Caroline SkinnerVia Phone: Ed Donovan, Kent MatsuedaBackground1.5 years ago Superintendents Advisory Board Feedback: we need info on school finances for prof dev!content: finance management and tying $ to academic achievementDr. Hartman created this 3 credit…

Attending: Erin Garthe, Tim Perry, Caroline Skinner
Via Phone: Ed Donovan, Kent Matsueda

Background

  • 1.5 years ago Superintendents Advisory Board Feedback: we need info on school finances for prof dev!
    • content: finance management and tying $ to academic achievement
  • Dr. Hartman created this 3 credit course that has been approved for Act 45
    • initially set for this past Spring ’10 semester
    • 6 real-time sessions, each scheduled for 2 hrs
    • rolled out to 5-6 campuses via Polycom selected for convenience to the learners and Polycom seat capacity
    • scheduled for 8-10 AM during the day, Erin mentioned that it would be likely that participants have to leave the sessions for more pressing matters
  • initially marketing through Penn Link listserv
  • less than 200 hits on the website
  • zero registrations
  • adv board said:
    • weather cancellations was a problem
    • we missed the boat for this cycle, starts again this Fall ’10
    • bitter subject, needed but an “ugly” subject

Future adaptations

  • Caroline: lack of specificity on the content in the past marketing campaign

Still to be determined

  • What are the activities?
  • Are we going with streaming, recording…?
  • Ed: probably didactic, instructor driven interaction
  • Assessments: “job-embedded” assignments with 5-6 deliverables

Protected page related to findings from the meeting: https://our.outreach.psu.edu/content/17662

Assessing the Nursing Online CE Pilot Course: 8171A

Background – The Nursing Online CE program was initially developed to use ANGEL Groups as they were the only resources available to the planners at that time. The planners now have access to use ANGEL Groups which are advantageous for…

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  1. Background – The Nursing Online CE program was initially developed to use ANGEL Groups as they were the only resources available to the planners at that time. The planners now have access to use ANGEL Groups which are advantageous for a number of reasons:
    1. Courses are not linked to any one person’s account
    2. There aren’t any quotas on the numbers of courses we could create
    3. The use of DEV spaces would make the process of course revisions more similar to typical WC courses
    4. WCLD would maintain more direct admin access to the courses, this would be especially useful for succession planning
    5. Courses provide a level of legitimacy that Groups do not have
  2. Goal – test the proper functioning, flow, and basic organization of a Nursing Online CE Course in ANGEL
  3. Survey
    1. History/Experience
    2. Main Components of Materials
      1. Nursing Portal/Marketing Site – point of first entry
      2. SOAR – registration engine
        1. FPS – account registration/user database
      3. ANGEL Course
        1. Welcome page
        2. Handouts
        3. Navigation info
        4. Presentation
        5. Support info
        6. AI
        7. Quiz
        8. Eval
        9. Certificate
        10. Completion
        11. Copyright & TEACH Act
    3. Survey attributes
      1. Content
      2. Organization
      3. Flow
      4. Support
    4. Comparison of the Group with the Course

I’m tempted to expand the pilot to include effectiveness of the design of this course. It would be a mistake to do that at this time given the scope, time frame, and initial goal of this pilot. It would be great to get more specific answers about how these courses compare to other forms of professional development that are available to nurses.

Nursing Online CE Updates

I’ve notified SON and CAPE about the new version of ANGEL’s Assessments broken GOTO advanced actions (the resulting page is blank). We’ll have to resort to alerts to assist students along the course process. I was also considering using Presenter’s…

I’ve notified SON and CAPE about the new version of ANGEL’s Assessments broken GOTO advanced actions (the resulting page is blank). We’ll have to resort to alerts to assist students along the course process. I was also considering using Presenter’s built-in quizzing features as an alternative.

Madeline had me change some colors in PPT because they wouldn’t print in B&W. I just checked and we shouldn’t have to worry about that since that seems to occur when participants are printing directly from PPT. Students only have PDF’s to print from and as long as they look good, then participants will get good prints. Looking at the printing more carefully, I began to wonder if we should offer B&W versions. The problem there is that the Penn State Mark and “SON” do not appear at the bottom of each slide.
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6008_slide10_color.pngI was also wondering if we should include full-sized references, but began to think that is going too far for a .1CEU non-credit course. The information is available online and the students can copy that info if they really want to.

NURS 6009 “Living with a Life Threatening Illness” Mediasite Live

Spoke to Heather Stover, School of Nursing, today and she said that she’ll talk with their IT Specialist, Colin Dangler today to request the materials and software we’ll need to edit Cheryl’s presentation for 6009: “Living with a Life Threatening…

Spoke to Heather Stover, School of Nursing, today and she said that she’ll talk with their IT Specialist, Colin Dangler today to request the materials and software we’ll need to edit Cheryl’s presentation for 6009: “Living with a Life Threatening Illness.” I had emailed Colin Fri 3/5 about the materials and software, but haven’t heard anything from him.

I’m under the impression that there is a possibility that we (Learning Design) won’t be able to get a copy of the Mediasite Live editing software. This could be a potential hurdle for getting the 6009 course launched by the start of the Summer… when SON would like the course to go live. I’m confident that if we get the materials and software soon (within the next week or so), we’d be able to get the course ready by the summer.

Course Development Goals: Take a pre-existing Mediasite Live presentation and swap out the PowerPoint for a different version. Then publish the presentation and incorporate it into a new 6009 course that is a part of the Nursing Online CE program. Due date to go live: start of Summer ’10. Will work on other aspects of the course until the content is ready: Welcome Page, Resources, Quiz, Evaluation, Certificate, etc.

More updates to come.

Contacts across CE

Continuing Education at University Park (CE@UP)Jeff Hand, Interim Director of CE and Director of CE@UPAngela Simparosa, Registrar and guru, amh17@outreach.psu.edu, x5-3444Shawn Vashaw, GA, Faculty Portal, sjv3@psu.eduContinuing and Professional Education (CAPE)Wes Donahue, Director Business & Engineering, WF ED & Photovoltaics course,…

Continuing Education at University Park (CE@UP)

  • Jeff Hand, Interim Director of CE and Director of CE@UP
  • Angela Simparosa, Registrar and guru, amh17@outreach.psu.edu, x5-3444
  • Shawn Vashaw, GA, Faculty Portal, sjv3@psu.edu

Continuing and Professional Education (CAPE)

  • Wes Donahue, Director Business & Engineering, WF ED & Photovoltaics course, wed105@outreach.psu.edu, x5-6341
  • Ed Donovan, Director Education & Health
  • Wanda Bickel, Admin Asst to Ed Donovan, Nursing Online CE, wqb2@outreach.psu.edu, x3-6780
  • Erin Garthe, EPIC Program Manager, emb189@psu.edu, x5-9654

Statewide Continuing Education (SWCE)

  • Bill Curley, Director
  • Mary Cavanaugh, Admin Asst, mcc6@psu.edu, x5-6602

Conferences & Institutes (C&I) and Shavers Creek

  • minimal contact; have consulted for and worked on committees with Pam Driftmier (C&I)

PSU School of Nursing

  • Madeline Mattern, Coordinator of Outreach Programs
  • Heather Stover, Admin Asst, Nursing Online CE, hns10@psu.edu, x3-2239

On our own with Protected PASS

Linas and I have been trying to figure out how to access protected content in PASS. We know how to manage content in the www_Protected directory using the PASS Explorer and SMB server access. We know how to manage the…

Linas and I have been trying to figure out how to access protected content in PASS. We know how to manage content in the www_Protected directory using the PASS Explorer and SMB server access. We know how to manage the permissions using the web-based Access Control Manager Wizard. All we needed to know is what URL to use to access protected content.

Unfortunately the Learning Design IT staff either didn’t know how to do it themselves or they didn’t make the time to give us a quick hand. That was frustrating because I knew it was an easy answer that was just out of our reach. So, what is the answer?
The base URL for my protected space is: https://protected.personal.psu.edu/kkm11/
And that information can be found at: http://kb.its.psu.edu/article/1103
I hope that helps someone else in the future.

Cross-training/pollination with the Blue Team

I’ve been thinking about how I can work closer with the Blue Team or Learning Design as a whole. I’ve talked about it with El and briefly with Rick after he sent me an email:”we need to find a way…

I’ve been thinking about how I can work closer with the Blue Team or Learning Design as a whole. I’ve talked about it with El and briefly with Rick after he sent me an email:
“we need to find a way to do more cross-training, cross pollination of what you are working on with others on the Blue team. And likewise we need to get you more involved with some of the World Campus courses.”

El had made a great point that the more I can do to formulate a strategy, the better it will be because it’ll give Rick and other a starting point. Thinking about an approach, some of the first questions that come up are:

  • What do I need to be effective?
  • What do others need to be effective?
  • What does it mean to be cross-trained in CE programs?
  • Who are the important contacts at CE?

UPDATE: Mon 8 Feb
I spoke to Linas and he reminded me that a lot of our PM-stuff will eventually be handled by Quickbase. However, Quickbase is kind-of “hands-off” right now until Ti Team finishes their work on the database.

I was just thinking, “what would I want if I were to “step-in” and pick-up for Jen for a short period of time?” That depends on the task and length of time really. For shorter projects, I don’t need much background…

  • just contact information for the instructor
  • a quick background on the task at hand (pre-requisite tasks)
  • sense of the critical path
  • due date and
  • details about the actual task at hand.

(That’s not a lot of “background?”)

For projects that need more involvement, in addition to the above list I would like (in no particular order)

  • an overview of the program
  • list of the “usual suspects”
  • time tracking information
  • syllabus for the course
  • change log on the course and a way for me to record my edits
  • an all-paid trip to go relax at my parent’s home in Maui or go up to the Green Mountains “in-style”
  • a new, full-suspension, Trek Fuel mountain bike
  • clear expectations on both sides
  • to have fun