Developing a Campus Strategy for E-Learning

1. Developing a Campus Strategy for E-Learning Dr. Roger Yohe Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Rich Marmon Director, Planning and Technology Services

2. Overview • Timeline • Process • Recommendations • Next Steps • Post Mortem • College Background • Initial Environment • A New Direction • The Charge • Call for Membership

3. Estrella Mountain Background • Relatively New College – Opened in 1992 • Phoenix Metro Area – 10th member of the Maricopa Community Colleges • Diverse Student and Service Area Population – Fall enrollment about 5,000 credit students • Rapidly Growing Service Area and Student Population • www.estrellamountain.edu/virtualtour

4. Initial E-Learning Environment Pre-Fall 2001 • Self-paced courses • Some use of Blackboard • “Underground” online courses • Personal Web sites • No commonality or standardization

5. A New Direction Fall 2001 • President chartered the E-Learning Task Force • Yearlong study • Goal – Develop college strategies for E-Learning and provide implementation recommendations

6. The Charge • Task Force Co-Chairs along with senior college leadership developed formal charge statement • Allowed taking time to really think about what we were about to do • Allowed clarification of goals • Anticipated outcome areas • This turned out to be a real key to success of effort

7. Call for Membership • Goal was to have mostly faculty • Allowed volunteers but certain areas were targeted • Incentive for faculty was personal interest and contract pay • Wound up with a mostly motivated group

8. Timeline • Effort broken up into four stages • Co-chairs were very disciplined to ensure effort stayed on track time wise

9. The Process • Full Task Force meetings every month • Subgroup meetings with Co-Chairs in between full meetings • These turned out to be crucial to success • Guest speakers at every full Task Force meeting • Periodic reports to Deans and President

10. Recommendations • Delivered Preliminary Report containing: • E-Learning Vision • E-Learning Definition • Institutional E-Learning Goals • Institutional Recommendations • Specific recommendations in 7 specific areas (Pedagogy, Curriculum Development, Use of Hardware and Software Tools, Faculty Support, Other Providers, Marketing, Student Support Services) • Developed Web site with full documentation of research and other backup data for recommendations www.estrellamountain.edu/academics/Elearning

11. Next Steps • Task Force has finished its work • Executive group now making implementation recommendations to President • Some reorganization has occurred to better prepare the college to support E-Learning efforts • Some hybrid courses will debut in Spring 2003

12. Post Mortem • A very successful effort – had a beginning and end with defined results • Key effects: • Raised cognizance of the institutional commitment to E-Learning • Provided a solid roadmap of how to move forward • Development of E-Learning on our campus will be an evolving effort

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