Steering Committee for August
The steering committee met on August 13th, 2009.
John Sneed, Jeff Edwards, Joe Wright, Larry Clausen, Tammy Billick, Rebecca Robinson, Chris Hughes, Dawn Davis, Andy Freed and Angie Berdahl were in attendance.
The committee examined the functional criteria that the project team has been collecting over the last few weeks. Ultimately, these will be used as a grading rubric when evaluating products.
The committee wants e-mail communication to faculty to occur soon so that faculty can be aware of the coming change, the process, and start to consider how the transition will fit with other changes, such as text book adoptions, program development, and training.
The steering committee would like to take a different direction in the selection of a new CMS. Rather than start with an RFI, we see two likely options. One is to stay with Blackboard and use their next generation of product. The other is to move to a hosted Moodle platform. Prior to selecting one of these options, we will want to work with stakeholder groups to identify a vision for online learning 5-10 years from now. From this vision, we will distill a set of criteria on which to judge any selection.
Prior to selecting a product, it will be necessary to pilot any system to see if it works in our environment, and if it fits within our institution's vision for our course management system.
The steering committee also discussed the issue of compensation for faculty. Migrating and training can be very time intensive, and some content may need revised. There are additional differences for compensation for full time and part time faculty. This issue is still open and will be continued at future meetings.
The next steering committee meeting is on September 17th.
John Sneed, Jeff Edwards, Joe Wright, Larry Clausen, Tammy Billick, Rebecca Robinson, Chris Hughes, Dawn Davis, Andy Freed and Angie Berdahl were in attendance.
The committee examined the functional criteria that the project team has been collecting over the last few weeks. Ultimately, these will be used as a grading rubric when evaluating products.
The committee wants e-mail communication to faculty to occur soon so that faculty can be aware of the coming change, the process, and start to consider how the transition will fit with other changes, such as text book adoptions, program development, and training.
The steering committee would like to take a different direction in the selection of a new CMS. Rather than start with an RFI, we see two likely options. One is to stay with Blackboard and use their next generation of product. The other is to move to a hosted Moodle platform. Prior to selecting one of these options, we will want to work with stakeholder groups to identify a vision for online learning 5-10 years from now. From this vision, we will distill a set of criteria on which to judge any selection.
Prior to selecting a product, it will be necessary to pilot any system to see if it works in our environment, and if it fits within our institution's vision for our course management system.
The steering committee also discussed the issue of compensation for faculty. Migrating and training can be very time intensive, and some content may need revised. There are additional differences for compensation for full time and part time faculty. This issue is still open and will be continued at future meetings.
The next steering committee meeting is on September 17th.
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