Summer eLC Meeting - August 27th and 28th, 2025
Members:
Stoo Sepp - Bellingham Tech
Stan Hortorn - Gray’s Harbour
Liz Falconer - Renton Tech
Robin Lisk - Whatcom CC
Livia Sa - Shoreline Community College
Mary Ann Goodwin - Spokane Community Colleges
Chair and Website: Up For Grabs (Stoo stepped down in Jan 2015 due to schoolin')
List of work emails for easy copy/paste:
ssepp@btc.ctc.edu; stan.horton@ghc.edu; lfalconer@rtc.edu; rlisk@whatcom.ctc.edu; lsa@shoreline.edu; maryann.goodwin@ccs.spokane.edu
Goal:
Work to provide the system colleges with recommendations and research related to increasing online student success.
Outcomes:
Develop and share strategies to increase student success.
Develop a bibliography of relevant research on student success.
Provide recommendations on data points to analyze and how to use data to increase student success.
Working Documents:
A Note on Student Success vs. Completion
This group took the approach of focusing on student academic success in individual online, hybrid and web-enhanced courses throughout their career. Completing degrees and certificates are a natural endpoint of our focus.
Research:
CCRC Predicting Online Student Outcomes from a Measure of Course Quality
Student Achievement Initiative website
Student Achievement and Completion Response from Tina Bloomer, Policy Research Associate, SBCTC
Presentation by Tina Bloomer at Summer 2013 meeting
IC Workplan
Below are the IC workplan objectives that our workgroup work fits into.
2.1 - Our workgroup is exploring and researching best practices related to increasing student success.
3.1 - Our workgroup is exploring learning analytics and how to use these to improve student success.
3.2 - The appropriate use of high quality elearning courses is central to increasing student success.