2008-2009 ELC Goals

eLC Workplan Final Draft  2008-2009Workplan.doc

Priority 1 - Professional Development

Lead - Stephanie Delaney - Cascadia College

Participants - Andy Duckworth - Tacoma Community College, Marc Lentini - Highline Community College, Michael Shepard - Whatcom Community College, Scott Dennis - Lower Columbia College, Boyoung Chae - SBCTC, Rick McKinnon - South Puget Sound Community College

• In collaboration with IC, determine faculty professional development needs

  • Re-visit faculty and student TTTF survey results

  • Faculty focus groups

• Requirements

  • Universal design

  • Shared system-wide

Priority 2 - Teaching and Learning Suite

Lead - Kyla Bates - Spokane Falls Community College

Participants - Marc Lentini - Highline Community College, Connie Broughton - SBCTC, Sara Frizelle - Everett Community College, Jerry Marshall - Green River Community College, Ed Bachmann - Pierce College

• Develop a prioritized list of tools to purchase as a system-wide license, and implement the top two tools

  • Includes researching existing tools in use at individual colleges

  • Benchmark against specific gaps (e.g., universal design, rich media)

  • Identify two tools all colleges need and will collectively agree to use

• Share methods of integrating open, web-based tools into current system tools

Priority 3 - Open Educational Resources (OER)

Lead - Geoff Cain - Tacoma Community College

Participants - Cable Green - SBCTC, Jerry Lewis - Columbia Basin College, Lesley Ann Wallace - Bellingham Technical College, Scott Dennis - Lower Columbia College

• Gather Information

  • Review national OER consortia reports, recommendations and models

  • Learn from institutions that have adopted and implemented OER

  • Collect faculty, student, library, and bookstore input

• Information Dissemination

  • What are the benefits of sharing? Benefits of open content, textbooks, publishing, software, standards, and/or open teaching?

  • Help system understand the benefits of OER - why do it? (e.g., open textbooks relate to access and student debt load)

  • Comparison of print vs. online OER

Priority 4 - Library Resources

Lead - Sue Gallaway - Centralia College

Participants - Dante Leon - Renton Technical College, Cable Green - SBCTC, Mickey Richardson - Seattle Central, Lesley Ann Wallace - Bellingham Technical College

• In collaboration with LMDC:

• • Pilot and assess IRIS project  IRISProjectReport.doc

  • Explore the building of content repositories for library resources

  • Work with Angel to add participatory & social networking features to Angel's repository (e.g., tagging, social networking, reputation)

  • Research how other institutions are incorporating library services online

  • Promote and integrate 24/7 virtual reference librarian IM

**WAOL Instruction Fee Research**

Lead - Andy Duckworth - Tacoma Community College

Participants - Ed Bachmann - Pierce College, Connie Broughton - SBCTC