EdTech Minutes for Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2003

10:00-11:00AM  St.Ed’s 361

 

Attending: Mike Battig, David Boynton, Mark Lubkowitz, Joe McLaughlin

 ad officio members: Susan Breeyear, Joanne Schneider, Bill Anderson, and Sandy Karstens.

 

Agenda

1.  Appointment of minutes scribe / Approval of last minutes

Mark Lubkowitz was appointed scribe and the last minutes were unanimously approved.

 

2. Discussion of “results” of our “Call for Proposals”

The committee discussed where to go next in our distance learning experiment given that no new proposals were submitted.   The discussion was initiated by an e-mail generated by Joanne Schneider and several suggestions were synthesized during this discussion:

    1. Last year’s recipients should present their findings in a public forum highlighting lessons learned.   Mark Lubkowitz will contact the TRC to determine if a brown bag lunch can be scheduled as the venue. 
    2. Since no new proposals were submitted, the committee discussed alternative ways to facilitate technology adoption by faculty.  The committee discussed two possible ways to continue to enable faculty persons to advance their pedagogy through technology.  Specifically, the committee discussed funding either a) another laptop workshop or b)  broadening the scope of the proposals from distance learning to any proposal that required tech support (excluding software).  The committee decided to wait on making a final decision on our next step.

 

 

3.  Joint work with Curriculum Comm. & recommendations from the Provost

 

We discussed the Provost’s concerns of Ed Tech “approving” courses through our grants and the CEPC being out of the loop (i.e., we may need to determine what, if any, policy we wish to consider).  Sandy Karstens will bring it to the attention of the curriculum committee.  If necessary, Mike will attend a meeting of the CEPC to discuss.

 

 

4.  Other Business/Updates?                

Bill Anderson provided the committee with a copy of his report to the trustees and a brief synopsis of the meeting.

 

5. Next Meeting:

The committee will schedule its next meeting after communicating with the TRC.