Distance and Online Education Committee Meeting

November 15, 20101:30-300pm

Agenda• Blackboard Update• Combining of Tickets – Only for cross-listed

classes this spring• Dean of DE and Learning Resources• Access to Online Courses – Request Form• Contract Language and DE• DE Student Survey• Other Issues/Concerns

Access to Online Courses Request Form

Draft – 4/15/08

Per the Academic Employee Master Agreement, all classroom/worksite/electronic visitations for the purposes of evaluation must be scheduled and mutually agreed upon. The most effective way for a Dean, Departmental Chair or Tenure Review Committee to observe an online course is to meet with the faculty member in person, who will open up their course on the computer and show the evaluator all areas of the course available to students. There are, however, times when a faculty member might want to give direct access to an evaluator.

In these instances, the faculty member who teaches the course must give written consent to the CIDDE staff in order for the evaluator to be added into the course. Permission will normally be given to access the course in the “student” role for a period of one week, unless otherwise indicated by the faculty member.

For access to be granted, the following form must be filled out by the faculty member who teaches the course and then submitted electronically to one of the DE Specialists.

 

Faculty Member Name: _____________________________________

Course Ticket #: _____________________________

Name of Person Requesting Access: ___________________________________

Title: _____________________________________________

Access in Role of ______ Student (default) or ______ Instructor

Week of Access: _________________________________

ARTICLE XVWORKLOADVIII. Course Content and Copyright Materials

1. Course outline and course contenta. Course Outline of Record (Curriculum) as described in 5 CCR §55002, is the property of the District.

b. Any instructional material developed by a faculty member to instruct,support, and/or deliver courses, including DE courses, shall remain theexclusive property of that faculty member, unless the faculty memberand the District have reached a prior alternative agreement regardingownership of specific instructional material.

c. The college will have the right of "non-exclusive license" to coursecontent for a period of one year after course completion only for thepurpose of allowing students to complete a course for which thecontent was created and when the faculty member is no longeravailable to complete the course.

2. Copyright Ownershipa. Any material created outside of the faculty member's employment withthe District is the exclusive property of the faculty member.

b. Unless the faculty member and the District reach a specific alternativeagreement prior to the creation of the material, any material created bya faculty member using District resources or support remains theexclusive property of that faculty member.

Student Survey AnnouncementThe Online and Distance Education Committee of Saddleback College is currently conducting a survey of our online students so that we can improve our services and course offerings. It will only take about 5 minutes of your time and is completely confidential.

Using Internet Explorer or Firefox as your browser, please go to http://sc-scan-ext.saddleback.edu/classclimate/indexstud.php to complete the survey. Type in the password: education. If this link does not work, you can cut and past the URL directly into your browser.

The deadline for taking the survey is Friday, December 10. Thank you for your participation.