August 19, 2019 Meeting

Agenda

TAFT COLLEGE

Distance Education Committee

August 19, 2019

12:10 pm – 1:00 pm

Cougar Room

 

AGENDA

Action Items

  1. Approval of Minutes (5 Minutes)
    1. May 10

 

  1. Review/evaluate the Committee Charter (10 Minutes)

 

Information/Discussion Items

 

  1. CVC-OEI Update (5 Minutes)

 

  1. Next steps for Distance Learning Approval Form (5 Minutes)

 

  1. Course Approval at the Instructor Level (10 Minutes)

 

  1. Distance Education Accessibility Plan (10 Minutes)

 

  1. Fall 2019 Meeting Dates (5 Minutes)

 

 

Next Meeting: September 13, 2019

Minutes

TAFT COLLEGE

Distance Education Committee Minutes

August 19, 2019

12:10 pm – 1:00 pm

Cougar Room

 

Attendees: Amar Abbott, Nicole Avina, Adam Bledsoe, Jill Brown, Geoffrey Dyer, Kelly Kulzer-Reyes, Joy Reynolds

Absent: Leslie Minor,

 

Action Items

  1. Approval of Minutes (5 Minutes)
    1. May 10 Meeting Minutes- unanimous consent to approve.

 

  1. Review/evaluate the Committee Charter (10 Minutes)-
    1. Membership Representation- Discussion was had to see who the Co-chair would be for this academic year.
      1. Faculty – All in favor of Joy Reynolds serving as the new DE Committee Co-chair.
      2. Student Representative- It was decided that we would reach out to Myisha to see if she had a student that might want to serve on the DE committee
    2. Edits were suggested to be made to the DE Committee Charter. Suggested edits as follows:

Under Purpose: change policies to policy recommendations

Capitalize all “Committee” references

Under Membership, change ASB to ASO

Add the Brown act to our Membership and Meeting policies and fix the dash at the end of College Code of Conduct

All conceded the suggested edits of the charter.

 

Information/Discussion Items-

  1. CVC-OEI Update (5 Minutes). Adam reviewed the following updates with the committee:

 

  1. 3 courses approved (ENGL 1500, BUSN 1500 & ECON 2120)
  2. 2 in Course Design Support (Devine-ENGL 2100 & Van Ry-SOC2110)
  3. 2 in Review (Rodenhauser ARTH1500 & Altenhofel HIST 2232)
  4. 6 reviewed by local mentors (Guided Pathways grant)
  5. 8 commitments to align for CVC-OEI CTE grant
  6. 4 faculty have completed POCR (Amar, Juana, Veronica Van Ry and Maribel Montelongo), 2 more are in-progress (Candace)
  7. Need to formalize local POCR process
  8. Peer reviewers are currently: Kelly Kulzer Reyes, Amar Abbott, Juana Rangel-Escobedo, Veronica Van Ry, Maribel Montelongo, and Candace Duron

 

  1. Continue to roll out subsidized technologies and services – Proctorio and Cranium Cafe

 

  1. Next steps for Distance Learning Approval Form (5 Minutes) The following points were discussed:
    1. We will need to update Faculty Resources page
    2. How will we notify faculty – Send the Distance Learning Approval Form through the Academic Senate Counsel for approval and update the final version on the website, when approved.

 

Future Meeting dates and times were discussed, but a consensus was not made. Adam was going to send out a poll to see what worked for everyone. Meeting adjourned

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