Updates from CTLI . . . February 26 09

What does EET need from Physical Facilities? This includes chairs, furniture, painting, whatever . . . Let's get a list going. I've already sent a request for chairs for media specialists and formatters because they spend the most time at their computers.

Centre Retreat
May 1 - all day Centre retreat at the Galt Museum. 9 to 4

RFD's and Budget Process
By end of April we'll know which RFD's will be funded, and then it has to go to the Board of Governors meeting. CTLI submitted 8 RFD's. Four of these RFD's were from EET (DL Curriculum Consultant, AV Tech (Video Conference support) , VC units, Evergreening technology (projectors and Smartboards) for IB)

So far 350 strategies and 50 RFD's were submitted, but they are still waiting for 2 major Centres to submit.

HR Updates
Line Gagne is our contact. Lori McGinnis is the workflow contact.

In the AUPE contract, additional discretionary day for employees. This includes two days between Christmas and New Years. For this year, the additional discretionary day will be tacked onto holidays. If you don't use it by June 30, you will lose it, so you should use these days first. There will be a place to identify this on the leave request.

Convocation
Marshalls are needed for the convocations ceremonies (both morning and afternoon). April 21, 2009. If anybody is intersted in helping, please contact Cassandra ASAP. This person organizes the graduates, leads them in, and then escorts them to their seats.


Managing Generational Diversity Workshop - March 18. Registration by March 12. Registration is $100. Lethbridge Lodge. 8 to 4 approximately. Interested? Just let me know . . .

Karen

Make a live audience poll at Poll Everywhere

eCampus Funding Update

eCampusAlberta Course Development Fund (OCDF): It was announced on February 4 that we received funding to develop 8 additional courses in the Disability and Community Rehabilitation / Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Education (6 courses), and Special Needs Educational Assistant (2 courses). We submitted several other proposals, but they didn’t fit the Alberta Ed focus areas of health, science, technology, trades, and business.

DL Course Development (Internal LC Funding) – Decisions for internal funding are now waiting for feedback from Peter Leclaire.

When we have the information on the internal funding, we'll be able to determine which projects we will be tackling, in addition to the eCampus courses, in 2009.

Karen

Furniture and Space

You may have heard this yesterday, but Web Services is moving from IT to Advancement. This means that Mike, Ron, and Jonathan will now be part of Advancement. Mike told me they are trying to physically move them to the Advancement area as soon as possible. I'll keep you updated as this progresses.

And the furniture order has been finalized, and I believe it will be ordered this week. It typically takes about 6 weeks to come, so we're looking at March. Yahoo!!

Karen

Course Development Stats etc.

I've been working on a list of recommended course development projects for 2009 to present to the Deans and Peter Leclaire. As part of this process I updated the list of projects we are currently working on. The number of projects has more than tripled since 2005:


- 2005 - 29 projects (completed 27)

- 2006 - 28 projects (completed 25)

- 2007 - 43 projects (33 completed or in phase 3)

- 2008 - 105 projects (27 completed or in phase 3)
- 2009 - We've received requests for 70 more course development projects (No, we won't be doing all of them :)



And this doesn't include all the other work we're doing:

- Hubbard Digitization Project / Inukshuk Grant
- Video Conferencing and increasing demand for other AV services
- Blended Learning Project (currently 7 projects)
- WebCT support
- Angel Transition
- Distributed Learning Initiatives
- eCampusAlberta Faculty Development Fund: Learning Connections Website
- Professional Development activities (Instructional Skills Workshops, etc.)

We're busy! Good thing we have such a great team working on all these things!!

Karen