Report by David Jordan to Yolanda Ramil - for Accrediation Standard 8, Physical Resources
3/08/00
Principles of Distance Education (taken from report of President of Irvine Community College on Online Education) their website is located at http://www.ivc.cc.ca.us/

1. Distance Education is appropriate means to achieve learning
status: At Mission College we currently have 12 classes offered in Distant Education (http://lamission.org/online2000.htm) Astronomy and Business Law 1 scheduled for Summer 2000, and probably the same number or more distant ed classes to be offered in the Fall of 2000.

2. Standards of funding, processes for development and approval, outcome evaluation should be comparable to other methods of achieving learning
status: Eloise Cantrell, through a specially funded project, has established 4 - 6 classes in Distant Education in colloboration with ecollege (http://lamission.org/ecollege.htme). The College has funded the remainder of the distant education classes now being offered.

3. Interaction between student and facutly is essential and is accomplished through various communication tools, such as email, "hypernews" discussions, IRC (relay chat), interactive quizzes (Quizmaker), and interactive webpages
status: Each of the onlne classes uses different means of communication with its students, almost all of the clases use email communication, few courses however, use the full range of "communication tools".

4. The ability of the instructor to structure the learning environmen is essential and should be addressed.
status: currently a sub-committee of the Academic Senate, called the Technology Mediated Instruction Committee was established, and David Jones, English Dept. was elected as its chair. their webpage is located at : http://www.lamission.org/online/

5. Distant Ed classes should be able to qualify for transfer to Univ. of Calif, and the Calif. State University system.
status: To get a distant ed class approved, an instructor must first either update the current course. This is accomplished by updating the course on the revised PNCR (10/14/99) "Proposed New Course Request" see http://lamission.org/pncr101499.doc, and attach the one page, form entitled " add here" see attached document. If it is a new course, then all of the currently adopted procedures for approval of a new course must be followed, and the new course submitted to the curriculum committee for review and approval.

6. The college should fund the expansion of distance education and technology mediated instruction.
status: need to consult with administration on their plans, budgets, etc. on funding and expansion of distance education. we need a technology plan in order to implement some of these goals and objectives. Tom Oliver did a tech plan, on 2/16/98, located at http://www.vcsun.org/~djordan/techplan.htm. It was submitted to a joint meeting of Faculty in February of 1998, and four different commitees were establised. Each committee meet a few times, and then nothing else has been done to my knowledge.

7. All courses offered by Distant Education should be funded at comparable levels as class room courses.
status: check with Academic Affairs, and President,

8. Incentives and support should be provided for faculty training and development of distant education classes.
status: A webpage workshop was offered to faculty on 1/4/99 with the assistance of the CSUN Webproject, and their Learning Resource Center, see materials for the workshop at http://www.vcsun.org/~djordan/staffdev/csunshop.htm, and another web page workshop, again assisted by CSUN, was offered on 7/12/99, see workshop materials at http://www.vcsun.org/~djordan/resourceswpw.htm. Also in July of 1999, a modest incentive program was established by Staff Development, entitled the " L.A. Mission College Web Project" (materials are located at http://www.vcsun.org/~djordan/staffdev/webproject.htm) which provided the following modest incentives for faculty to create class webpages:
Summary of Awards

$125 - to develop and implement a new web page
$ 100 - for advanced web page development
$ 75 - to develop/implement the following tools, or comparable technology
hypernews "threaded discussion" forums on your webpage, or comparable
technology of "threaded discussions", or "asynchronous communication".
quizmaker on your webpage, or comparable technology of "online testing or
assessment.
IRC chat or Javachat on your webpage, or comparable technology of "synchronous
communication" or "chat forums".
Using Excel to Post Grades to your webpage, or comparable technology
Web Utilities, such as listbot, a webaddressbook, a calendar, or other comparable
web utility tools, or technology.

To date, a number of instructors have worked on creating webpages with the assistance of Staff Development: including Richard Yamauchi (http://www.vcsun.org/~yamauchi), and others.

A special note of thanks: The Web Project at CSUN, and John Hartzog, Director of the Learning Resource Center have provided, for "free", all of their "communication tools" - including "hypernews", IRC, JavaIRC, and Quizmaker to L.A. Mission College, along with space on their server at http://www.vcsun.org. As a result, Mission now has more than 45 of its faculty using vcsun.org webpages in their classrooms (some instructors more, and some less). In addition, L.A. Mission Faculty have attended various "free" workshops offered by CSUN to assist in learning web teaching, and the "communication tools". The most recent workshops are "Sundays in Cyberspace", which three (3) of our college faculty attended.

Mark Pracher has recently obtained a federal grant under Title III for implementation of support to college faculty in adding supplemental materials "online" for their students. This grant will work with the existing college structure, including Staff Development, and the Technology Mediated Instruction Committee to implement the use of "online" supplemental materials, including quizzes, and the like for use by students and instructors.

Starting the Fall 1999 semester, the Staff Development Committee hired a "professional expert", Peter Marcoux to assist faculty with the creation of their webpages, and implementation of technology to assist online education. Peter Marcoux is teaching faculty at both El Camino College, and Mission Pace Program, and Mission English Department. He is currently teaching English 28 online at http://www.vcsun.org/~marcoux/spring2000/0102/index.htm

Peter Marcoux has completed the following projects in the Fall 99/Spring 2000 Semester:

1. created a template which instructors can use for their initial webpages:
http://www.lamission.org/tempage.html

2. helped a number of faculty with their webpages, including Joe Meyer, Political Science with his online Poli Science webpage at http://www.vcsun.org/~jmeyer

3. researched links for copyright issues facing online instructors located at
http://www.vcsun.org/~djatty/workip/copyrights.htm

4. worked with Mark Pursley, Director of PACE, and updated their program webpage
http://www.vcsun.org/~mpursley/pace/

5. worked with Suanne Ritcheson, Gwen Walker, and the other counselors, and establshed a webpage for counseling at http://www.lamission.cc.ca.us/counseling/ which includes a list of FAQ's and email addresses of all of the counselors so students can consult with the counselors through email.

The Technology Mediated Instruction Commitee has worked on the following matters to support online distant education: ( see mintues of 2/01/00 meeting at http://lamission.org/online/tmimins20100.htm and minutes of 2/25/00 meeting located at:http://lamission.org/online/agenda229.htm
1. Agreed to forward to the Senate the recommendation that:
The T1 line to C4NET that provides Internet access for the academic network be routed directly to the LC/Library without connection to Cisco Pix Firewall. This will ensure a more reliable internet connection and availability for online students, and technology mediated instruction
2: Has worked on a proposed mailing of packets to potential online students
3: Need agreements with Academic Affairs and Student Services for this Committee to proof the
Schedule format for online courses
4: Need to simplify online registration and telephone registration
5: is working on updating the home webpage at Mission College to make it more student user centered and friendly.
6: Will discuss value of Committee mission statement
7: Will discuss planning a technology plan for the college
8: Agreed to forward to the Senate the recommendation that both Web-based and telephonic
enrollment remain open until classes are full, minus five.

9. Nontransferable credit and non-credit courses should be developed for distant education classes.
status: uncertain of this goal and objective. consult with academic affairs.

10. The college should develop a plan to encourage cooperation and eliminate duplication of resources in both is class room courses and courses offered online.
status: technology plan (see above)

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documents:

1. List of Disant Ed Classes
http://lamission.org/online2000.htm

2. List of Distant Ed Classes through ecollege
http://lamission.org/ecollege.htm

3. lamission.org home webpage
http://lamission.org/

4. index of materials on lamission.org
http://lamission.org/siteindex.htm

5. Technology Mediated Iinstruction Commitee home page
http://www.lamission.org/online/

6. Proposed New Course Request (PNCR - revised 10/14/99)
http://lamission.org/pncr101499.doc

7. Distant Ed form - 1 page

8. Technology Plan proposed by Tom Oliver on 2/16/98
http://www.vcsun.org/~djordan/techplan.htm

9. Web page workshop 1/4/99
http://www.vcsun.org/~djordan/staffdev/csunshop.htm

10. Web page workshop 7/12/99
http://www.vcsun.org/~djordan/resourceswpw.htm

11. Mission College Web Project (incentive plan)
http://www.vcsun.org/~djordan/staffdev/webproject.htm.

12. Faculty Webpages at Vcsun.org
http://www.vcsun.org/~djordan/staffdev/vcsunpages.htm

13. Technology Mediated Instruction Committee Minutes/Agenda
Meeting of 2/01/00 Meeting of 2/25/00

updated: 3/08/00