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2012 Winter Institute. Course Offerings . What is the Student Leadership Council?.
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2012 Winter Institute Course Offerings
What is the Student Leadership Council? • Our members are dedicated to promoting student involvement on all six Yavapai College campuses. It is our goal to empower students, encouraging them to have a voice in their education and their college experience.
Survey Results • At the start of the semester SLC ran a survey asking several questions. • WEPA, registration, class schedule, course evaluations, course offering, smoking on campus and the Rider Diner
Questions to Ponder • Of the 6 questions that were asked the SLC felt that course offering was the highest importance to tackle first • “If I had the choice of taking classes at Yavapai College I would rather take” • Online Only – 16 of 243 (6.7%) • Mixed – 115 of 243 (47.3%) • Face to Face –101 of 243 (41.6%) • Hybrid –11 of 243 (4.5%)
Quality Initiative Report (See page 5) Delivery Method. Students register for • F2F courses by choice 67% of the time. • OL courses by choice 34% of the time. • OL courses because it fit their schedule 58% of the time. The QIR mirrors the results that SLC found
Follow up survey • Online courses only • Why did you choose to take this class online versus Face to Face • Ease of Schedule 70.4% • I like online better than in person 0.0% • Only offered online 25.9% • All in person classes were full 3.7% • I feel online classes are easier than face to face 0.0%
Follow up Survey Cont. • Online courses only • If given the chance to take this class in person do you feel you would have been? • More successful – 25.9% • As successful – 55.6% • Less successful – 18.5%
Follow up survey • Face to Face • Why did you choose to take this class face to face versus online only? • Ease of Schedule 3.5% • I like in person better than online 75% • Only offered in person 7.1% • All online classes were full 3.5% • I feel in person classes are easier than online 39.3%
Follow up survey cont. • Face to Face • If given the chance to take this class online do you feel you would have been? • More successful – 3.5% • As successful – 14.3% • Less successful – 82.1%
Summary • The Student Leadership Council feels Yavapai College should conduct additional surveys asking what students prefer regarding course offering • The SLC has obtained several comments from students that felt they were being forced into online classes
Suggestions from students • Faculty Response Time • SLC would like to recommend that the faculty association pass a policy that instructors place parameters of response time within their syllabus. • This includes but is not limited to: • voice mails • e-mails • communication
Suggestions from students cont. • Grading • Upon obtaining our survey information a common issue that was raised pertains to grading. Students feel that work should be returned in a timely manner.
Orientation: • It was brought to the SLC’s attention of a mandatory orientation for online instruction at the student level. However the SLC also feels that faculty should be held to the same standard.
What can Student Leadership Council do for the faculty • What student input would you consider to be valuable to you?