At
the Institute meeting on Tuesday, December 10, we provided an update on recent
strategic planning efforts regarding online/multimedia-enhanced education at
Rose-Hulman. We’ve formed a Rose-Hulman
Online strategy team of faculty members, administrators, and technical staff to
build a strong support infrastructure for teaching online courses (seminars,
workshops, etc.), hybrid or “flipped” classes, and creating/using multimedia
learning tools in face-to-face classes.
We’ve also identified a set of goals to be achieved by the end of June,
2014. We’ve created a visual dashboard
of our progress on these goals, which we’ll update periodically and post
publicly via this blog. The dashboard is
viewable/downloadable here:
At
the Institute meeting we didn’t have time to go into details about all of the
issues that the strategy team is working on, but we’re basing our work largely
on the outline suggested in “Infrastructure and Administrative Support for
Online Programs,” by John Mayer and Amanda Barefield, Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 13(3), Fall
2010. We’ve added a few things to the
issues listed by these authors (examples include policies/practices regarding
cyberbullying, teaching students in countries where internet access is
controlled, merging good practices with our academic calendar). However, we haven’t taken anything identified
by these authors off of our list of ‘things to consider!’
If
you’d like to learn more about the issues we are tackling, the original article
we’re working from is available in pdf form, downloadable at:
The
article is also viewable in a web browser at:
