MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

Haley Duck – o Evaluation is done by the division chairs, which have access to the instructor’s course. If scored low in certain areas, they are on probation, and won’t teach anymore if problems occur. o Created a instructor resource course in Canvas called “Romeo” – resource site, and track who is turning things in on time. Fun site with Animoto video, etc. Tish Stewart – o Does most of what other colleges are doing. In addition, she has a sheet that instructors must sign off on, and upload which says “this is what has to be in your course” before it starts.

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Teresa Webster– o

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eLearning is not over faculty; facutly are under division chairs. Has a ‘naughty list’ of instructor’s who haven’t done what they are supposed to, and course evaluations. Every course goes under review by eLearning and Division Chairs. Score under 3.0 = goes on probation with improvement plan.

Jennifer Leimer – o

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Online instructors are under their Department Chairs. ELearning evaluates every online course using a rubric. Send evals to department chairs and deans. The department chairs then evaluate, and then the entire score is combined. MGCCC also has a resource community for instructors. Kim Harris – o Division Chairs rely on input from eLearning. Kim stated that Northeast has an online evaluation rubric, and she is working on a new evaluation as part of her dissertation. o Idea that is coming is to look at retention after 3 semesters – instructors that have a 50% average or below must sit out for the next year, and be trained. Must keep and maintain 50% average, or they do not stay online. Rubric, Syllabus Checklist. Mid-semester they look at student communication, content, etc. They only do this each Fall. Instructors have two weeks to make corrections of anything that is found. Action plan is to knock down the instructor to 1 class – if they had multiple sections. o Online Instructor Community in Canvas and assign points for completed items, etc.  Keri Cole asked about electronic Evaluation Rubrics that would keep up with the stats on evaluations for each semester. Google Forms and FormStack are both ideas to help keep up with scores that would be sortable, export stats, etc.   Phyllis Johnson – o

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