MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

what is occurring. Christian said that this is one reason we went back to the committee meetings. DLC Assistance role will move through. Audra asked if there is a way to manually change DLC information/list. Christian will check with Ive to prioritize by school. If you have any changes/additions, please email Chris Square so that we can make a decision. Terry will send Chris the spreadsheet.

Quality – Jennifer Leimer – need a more robust evaluation tool state-wide. May want to develop a solid tool on what DLCs look for in courses verses campus personnel to review other areas of the course. She has gone to several different websites and looked up surveys and evaluation tools that other schools are using for online courses. She’ll provide a summary of some of those tools. She will work with the committee members. This is not a traditional survey, but more a course evaluation tool for our online courses. Looking at things like retention rates, communication, etc. Dr. Jenkins said that it helps each school take off courses that do not meet the qualifications to stay on schedule. Alicia said that you should have an evaluation tools for each of these courses. We should not necessarily make a policy, but a form to go by. Terry said that you may also want to look at a technological solution. If you can plug in a building block or external company that could integrate. We will need to look at privacy also. c. Support – Audra Leverton – Building blocks/vendors and proctoring sub-committee. Terry will also add another on Presidium. i. Proctor Contact Information –Buffy Matthews. Buffy Matthews presented the group with an MSVCC Contact Listing, which provides contact information for all DLC offices as well as proctor information. This spreadsheet was compiled by Jennifer James last fall. As part of the proctoring committee, Buffy felt that it was important to keep this updated on a yearly basis. There have been a lot of changes over the last few months. We would like to ensure that we have the most up-to-date information possible. Buffy asked that each college review the information and notify her of any changes and/or additions. She will distribute the updated information via email. Audra added that we do have a form that we ask proctors to sign the confidentiality agreement ii. Jennifer Powell had two things on vendors. One was on TurnItIn. She provided the groups with handouts. One is an overview of Turnitin. The other is a PDF on all of the companies that looked at various products that do similar things and TurnItIn ranked highest. d. Administration – Tish Stewart – Working on policies and procedures guide and strategic initiatives. We will be doing policies and procedures during bootcamp. We will do strategic planning one year and policies and procedures the next year. Because we have some many new people, we made each college a copy of notebooks. At the front, you have calendar and contact information, along with other useful information. Additional tabs have been added for other pertinent information. Tish asked that members look at the strategic plan to see if any updates or changes are recommended, you have tabs for Bb and D2L worksheets/handouts. You will also see a tab for minutes/agendas. We are working on a DLC manual. Andrea Scott created this a few semesters ago, but we will need to update. Strategic Plan will be added a later date. Please bring with you to all meetings. Jennifer thanked Tish for putting together the binders. If you have other information, let us know if

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