Summer eLC Meeting - August 27th and 28th, 2025
Group Members
Emails for easy copy/paste:
aindrunas@everettcc.edu,Vanessa.Scee@skagit.edu,stephanie.delaney@seattlecolleges.edu,suzanne.friedman@lwtech.edu,bmcginnis@wvc.edu,bcummings@bates.ctc.edu,csoran@tacomacc.edu,chategekimana@wvc.edu,tinatorres@email.edcc.edu, lisa.chamberlin@wwcc.edu
Goals
Assist the system colleges in understanding and employing new eLearning Trends
Expected Outcomes
Identify best practices for providing faculty professional development with educational technology.
Develop replicable and scalable strategies for increasing professional development opportunities for supporting faculty professional development of educational technology.
Explore and evaluate new ed tech trends using research based methods. Examples of trends to explore:
mobile devices
CBE/badging
learning analytics
IC Workplan
Below are the IC workplan objectives that our workgroup work fits into.
2.1 - Our workgroup is exploring educational technology tools that can help improve student access and success.
2.2 - Our workgroup is exploring badges, social learning and competency-based education and this fits well with the work done with this objective.
3.1 - Our workgroup is exploring learning analytics, which are a key piece of evidence that drives institutional decision making.
3.2 - The use of innovative and effective ed tech can support and improve high quality eLearning for students.
3.3 - One of the members of the workgroup is in a pilot college and we will be exploring the ed tech options within the PeopleSoft environment.
Objective
Strategies
2.1.a Continue to Expand High School 21+
2.2.a. Expand innovative credit for prior learning opportunities on campuses (including veterans).
3.1.a Work through the state ATD plan (annual regional workshops) to provide professional development opportunities for administrators, faculty, and IR representatives to use data and implement best practices for building a culture of evidence.
3.2a. Provide professional development opportunities for faculty to increase use and effectiveness of Open Education Resources and instructional learning technology tools.
ctcLink staff to identify relevant issues.
Groups Responsible
2.1 CBS, IC, Transistion Comm.
2.2.a. ATC, WEC, CEC, CBS, ACC
3.1.a. IC and all of its councils SBCTC
3.2.a. ATC, e-Learning, IC, LLC*, WEC
3.3 IC and SBCTC
Decision Authority
2.1 WACTC
2.2.a. IC, WSSSC, SBCTC
3.1.a IC, SBCTC
3.2.a. IC, SBCTC
3.3a IC
Expected Outcome/Benchmark for 2014-15
2.1 Report on expansion of HS 21+ from CBS June 2015.
2.2.a. Review of progress to date on granting CPL.
3.1.a. Report on adaptation of culture of evidence practices.
3.2.a. Report regarding actual use of OER and provide summary of faculty professional development.
3.3 Prepare any necessary policy recommendations for implementation with ctcLink
2.1 Increase student access and success.
2.2 Explore learning options that hold student competencies as a fixed factor and time as variable factors in learning
3.1 Improve the ability of colleges to develop a culture of evidence to drive institutional decision making.
3.2 Support and improve high quality eLearning for students including online, hybrid, and enhanced courses that improves teaching and learning.
3.3 Identify policy and procedure questions and capabilities for Instruction resulting from ctcLink implementation.
Meeting Minutes from eLC Fall Meeting 2014
Summary of our research plan: Our survey will gather the following information about institutions in our system regarding the three ed. tech. trends:
A. Agreed to meet at 9am on the second Tuesday of each month via Collaborate. Alyson will send out an invite.
First meeting, November 17 at 9am
B. Decided to focus on three educational tech. trends for 2014-2015:
mobile devices
CBE/badging
learning analytics
We took the top three trends above were culled from the original list discussed was:
MOOCs
Mobile
Learning Analytics
Badging and credentialing of learning and competencies.
Competency-based education (CBE)
Gamification
Summary of our research plan:
Our survey will gather the following information about institutions in our system regarding the three ed. tech. trends:
If and/or how they have implemented
What buy-in exists or is lacking
Who sparked the leadership and vision
Who provided training and support
What was the role of the administration
Our end goal is to provide a focus on creating a business-like model for how we would/should implement these trends on our campus.
Winter Quarter 2015 Meeting Minutes:
1. We finalized the recent draft of survey.
2. We are also using Marc Lentini's Survey on Badges:
3. The results will be finalized and collated by the Winter eLC meeting.
4. Our end goal is to provide a focus on creating a business-like model for how we would/should implement these trends on our campus.
5. Alyson will send reminders to eLC members and we'll continue with our monthly Collaborate meetings.
If and/or how they have implemented
What buy-in exists or is lacking
Who sparked the leadership and vision
Who provided training and support
What was the role of the administration
Work Group Timeline:
Fall--write the survey
Winter—Distribute (prior to the winter eLC meeting so we can motivate people to take the survey in-person)
Spring—Collate data and create a business-like model plan
Summer--Write report