Well, here's the first post for 2009. Here is the brief report I sent off to the Multi-Faceted Delivery (MFD) Committee today (for our meeting on Monday).
EET Report for MFD
January 9, 2009
• Instructional Development
Semester start up with WebCT – smooooooooth, but busy!
New DL Initiatives with WebCT:
- Added 19 online courses to the inventory in January
- Currently have over 100 courses in some stage of development
- Adding a WebCT component to all DL print based courses
LMS Access schedule has been implemented. We’ve discovered a few programs that need additional access, and these are being dealt with on an individual basis.
eCampusAlberta Course Development Fund (OCDF): Proposals submitted in December will be reviewed on January 14, and decisions for the next round of funding will be announced on January 21.
DL Course Development (Internal LC Funding) – Programs with DL development requests have until Friday, January 9 to submit their DL plans identifying the courses that need to be developed in 2009. Decisions will be made in conjunction with the eCampusAlberta announcement.
Prep for LMS Transition: We’re still waiting for the official “GO” on this – contracts have been finalized (as of January 8), so we’ll be moving forward next week.
Inukshuk Project: This is the digitization of the Hubbard Collection. Team is almost complete, and work has started. Deadline for this is November 09.
China Project: We’re currently working with four instructors from Business on four courses in the third semester. We have courses from approximately 1+ semesters left to complete in this course development project.
Supporting course development for Windmill Technician, Police Recruit Training Program, Licensed Practical Nursing Program, Massage Therapy . . .
Project Management Tool – 5 pm: EET has adopted a new project management tool to help increase efficiencies in our production area.
Multimedia Production Practicum Students: We have five students joining our production team this semester and will be working on various projects in both course development and AV.
• Audio Visual
- Plans for more communication re how to schedule and run a VC
- AV staff will be ordering and installing 10 projectors in remaining classrooms and meeting rooms this semester.
- We need to develop an evergreening program for the projectors in IB. Two projectors in the lecture theatres are causing problems, and several projectors in the classrooms have quit and had to be replaced. We’ll be submitting an RFD later this month.
• Curriculum Development
Program Reviews currently underway in the following programs:
- Professional Golf Management
- Early Childhood Education
- Office Administration
- Child and Youth Care
- Interior Design
- Therapeutic Recreation Gerontology (possibly starting this mid semester)
- Instructional Certificate Program (likely started this year)
Program Reviews will be collecting/addressing:
* Course outlines for all delivery methods
* Range of delivery formats that are available for program courses
* Survey of instructional, assessment, and retention strategies
* Surveys/focus groups with Year 2 students, graduates, employers, faculty
• Professional Development
- Facilitated another ISW in December and a Survival Skills for New Instructors Workshop in early January.
- Watch for upcoming sessions that will focus on technology integration in the classroom (Smartboard training, Web 2.0 tools, etc.)
• MFD Conference – update next month . . .
• Other Conferences
March 11-13, 2009 Distributed Learning Symposium 2009: Embracing and Becoming Drivers of Change/Innovation, Alberta Distance Education and Training Association (ADETA). Hyatt Regency Hotel, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. http://www.adeta.org
- EET is planning to take a group to this one . . .
And if you’re interested in a very comprehensive list of Ed Tech conferences, here’s the link to Clayton Wright’s 2009 list.
http://edtechtalk.com/node/3472
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