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GateWay Community College "Tracking Tools" Need to set up database system to track information important to your program? Would you like a bird's eye view of an online clinical competency and performance evaluation system developed by the Maricopa Health Care Education department? Would you like to see an easy web-based detection system tool that provides faculty an online tool to evaluate student written work for plagiarism? Please join us Friday, December 3rd at Gateway Community college, as our colleagues from Gateway Community College lead us on another exciting online teaching and learning adventure. This is the perfect time to visit and catch up with what's happening in the online world of teaching and learning within Maricopa before the onset of the holiday season. John Lampignano and his colleagues have put together a dynamic, interactive agenda for us - we hope to see as many new and old faces as possible. See you there! Welcome and Introductions (1:30 - 1:35 pm)Polly Miller (Estrella Mountain)
What's New in Online Learning at Our Campus (1:35 - 1:50 pm)all participants
The March OLG 2005 meeting will be held at Rio Salado College. Each campus is asked to bring at least two students to participate in a panel discussion about online learning. Update on Blackboard/Midas SituationDave Fraedrich, Assisting Programming Manager (District Office) Monday, November 29, a catastrophic failure occurred on the server that houses both Midas and Blackboard. The failure affected both the databases as well as the backups of the data. The tape backups were also corrupt. It was not a software issue. The IT department has been working on it non-stop since it happened. A person from Microsoft came and spent two days teaching them tricks on recovery. The team is learning a lot about data recovery and redundant systems. The Vice Chancellor of Information Technologies, Ron Bleed, is fully supportive of all efforts to get the system restored and running again. Currently four databases have been recovered. Midas is easier to restore because it is split up, but Blackboard has everything in one large "chunk" and it is much harder to recover. Testing will begin with select faculty members on Saturday. The hope is to have both systems up and running by Monday. There is a complete backup from November 12 that will be used to populate the databases. All course content will be restored from that date, including grades. It is possible that data from the 12 through the 29th is lost. Once the system is back up, the team will try to recover portions of data and it may be possible to get it to faculty in an Excel spreadsheet. Tuesday, December 7, 2004 will begin the "post mortem" of the incident. Each step of the catastrophe will be evaluated and steps will be put in place to prevent the events from occurring again. Lessons learned from this catastrophe will be applied across the board. Lisa offered suggestions for worst-case scenarios. Faculty could ask students to bring in all work they have turned in this semester. Although most agreed that the students should not be penalized. Faculty could also give a comprehensive final to capture the information from the period that is missing. Finally, grades of incomplete could be entered to give faculty additional time to gather the missing grades. Maricopa Online Clinical Competency SystemKathleen Murphy, Program Director, Medical Ultrasound and Jeanne Dial, Program Director, Nuclear Medicine Technology (GateWay) There are no users fees involved since it was developed at District. Onsite training for students and clinical instructors is provided. The clinical sites have endorsed the program. Students and clinical instructors can access it anywhere, including the hospital, as it is a web-based program. It provides detailed analysis of students. Course evaluations are also online. Students have a higher level of accountability. The benefits to faculty are that it is reliable, upgradeable, and protects patient confidentiality. It also uses existing Maricopa forms that can be updated and changed as needed. Break (2:30 - 2:45 pm)all Turnitin.com (2:45-3:25 pm)Jennifer Waters, Adjunct Faculty, English, Electronic Learning Space (Learning Center, GateWay) The database houses more than 4.5 billion pages of current and archived Internet. It also has a student paper database and academic journals, books, and newspapers. Now faculty can prove when a student has plagiarized work. Jennifer recommends adding Turnitin.com to your syllabus so that students know in the beginning that their papers will be submitted and checked for plagiarism. It will help deter students from plagiarizing. The student actually submits their paper electronically to Turnitin.com. Faculty can select an option that allows students to get an originality report back when they submit their paper. Turnitin.com generates an originality report with text matches highlighted and linked to the original source. It can also be used as a pedagogical tool to teach proper citation. It can be built in to Blackboard with an add-on through the digital drop box. The annual subscription provides faculty login, including adjunc,t and is based on FTSE. There is a $500 activation fee. The cost is approximately .60 per head. The Blackboard add on is and additional $1500. Door Prizes (3:25 - 3:30 pm)all The prizes for this meeting include:
We will again make use of the prize patrol tool!
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