In our first session of the year, the group discussed the procedures for developing online courses and revisions in the Learning Objects Sharing Program. A flowchart of procedures and the revised Learning Objects Sharing document will soon be available on the Department of Elementary Education web site. There are two pending cases of learning objects sharing in the department. There have been delays in the payment of stipends due to some copyright issues, but Extended Education is working to resolve this soon.
Next, electronic submission of student evaluations of online courses was discussed. Some faculty members are getting lower student response rates than they have received for face-to-face courses. In addition, faculty members cannot see if it is obvious that a student reversed the ratings on a course evaluation, because the individual evaluations are not sent by Jim Jones. Susan will discuss this with Jim Stroud as well as see if Extended Education can help in any way.
Harold Roberts is working on a summary page that will describe each of our online courses. He will use Jim Flowers' web site as a model and link it to the department's web site.
Dean Weaver is interested in starting a Teachers College initiative that would give instructors a forum for sharing what they are doing in their online courses. Ideas were generated that Karen Ford will collate and send to the Dean.
Finally, the group decided that the topic for the next LTTO session will be evaluation, including program evaluation and evaluation of student learning.
Join us for the next LTTO session on October 22nd at 9:00 in TC 217.
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