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Ocotillo Chairs Meeting ... Agenda and notes for February 8, 2002 meeting

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Ocotillo Chairs Meeting

February 8, 2002
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
District Office Room 311

Welcome, Introductions
Doug Sawyer

Student Technology Survey Update
Doug Sawyer
Gene Schmidt has accepted the position of official Statistical Analyst to Ocotillo. This semester he will work with Doug to prepare a report and summary of the data from the former student technology survey (in a laypersons format). We are tentatively scheduled to present these results for the March 8 meeting.

Based on the report, Ocotillo should consider a proposal for follow-up action, perhaps another survey or focus groups. Ron Bleed suggested that this could be fundable under bond planning.

March 29 Technology Dialogue Day
Charlene Almenderez, Alan Levine
Update on agenda for the Spring Ocotillo Dialogue Day at GateWay Community College, which has the theme of "Technology by the (Discipline) Slice. The day was shortend to go from 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/dd/tech02/

When participants register, they indicate which discipline track they are interested in, and they are asked to share examples of both classroom technology and web technology they currently use or are interested in. This info is added to the web page for each "slice" and provides seed discussions for the faciliators (and will remain as a resource). The day will end with a panel discussion of 4 faculty who will share their experience of going from "no/low tech to some/hi tech". Pam volunteered to be the MC for the panel.

Dr Gaskin, Dr, Solley, Ron Bleed, and hopefully the new GateWay President will be at lunch to do a welcome.

Please advertise the events locally and ask faculty if they could help us faciliate the sessions (see agenda). We will submit for FPG for this event.

Technology Visioning Dialogue Day Followup
All
Reflection on the results of the first Ocotillo Technology Visioning Forum, "Designing the Hybrid Campus" with Philip Parsons and Deepika Ross.

reflections fro college discussions:
Seemed positive overall. The speakers were well received. The ideas that grew from the event were great, along with the discussions. The interaction with other colleges was very helpful; it created further discussions afterward.

• Chander-Gilbert - We need to prioritize our culture (shade, windows, trees).
• Mesa - Do we want our students to learn in an environment that we've facilitated or do we want them to learn "anywhere"? At the community college or isolated at home?
• Glendale - The goals on their upcoming "Expectations" newsletter have changed because of this one event. Their faculty were charged with "5 easy pieces"; 5 things to add technology to their courses, like make their email available, put their course agenda online, etc.
• Paradise Valley - Jon did not like the presentation at all! Not concrete enough

About Hybrid Courses
Can we come up with a schema to help clarify what a "hybrid" is? Not a singular definition, but something that would help characterize it?

• Does a Hybrid mean less student face time? Maybe a student ASSET test needs to be set-up to determine if a student is suited for a hybrid course.
• What about the quality of these courses? Is it really more convenient for the student? Is the teacher still there for the student? Is the teacher following up; are they creating a connection with the student?
• When Jon was working at ASU he taught a class that was also video taped for those students that couldn't attend. Are we doing much with video?

Other Thoughts

• There are so many ways to learn - we should offer all of these ways on our campuses.
• Why do we have 10 separate help desks?
• There will always be a need for classrooms. There are just more choices and some people prefer isolation.
• What about regional groupings for classes - offer special courses.
• How many students go to school close to where they work?
• If we had student services 24/7 separate from having a place for this support person equals a different money source.
• The community should dictate the hybrid classrooms.
• We need to get back to social learning.
• Who are we serving? That is the bottom line.
• We went to technology because we didn't have enough time.
• We need to explore other options - if a student decides to purchases an E-book, maybe the money should come from financial aid instead of the student's pocket.

Swirling Students Idea
Pat Case (Rio Salado), Jon Koehler (South Mountain), Randy Mauldin (Estrella Mountain), JD Mildrew (South Mountain) came up with an idea called "Swirling Students". What if a student needed to take a course at South Mountain, but lived closer to Glendale? They would go to South Mountain to attend the actual class (once per week?), but would be able to go to any Maricopa College for support or to hand in homework. In order to pay, they could use a "smartcard" that would allow them access to services at the provising college. If they swiped a computer, it would immediately recognize the student and the course they are taking. The District would give money to the host college for the class and money to the service provider for services.

What do you think of this idea? These are the types of items we hope can arise from these forums?

Bond Planning update
The planning committee would like to do all the strategic planning before going to physical planning - this may not be achieved. The strategic planning is due to be done by the end of February and the bond planning will be worked on through September. Then one year from now CEC will put a dollar amount to that result. Are we looking more to community or more commuter? Are we using our current space to its fullest potential? Should we retro-fit or build new buildings? The bond is due to the voters by November 2004.