Oxnard College Mission Statement

Oxnard College promotes high quality teaching and learning that meet the needs of a diverse student population. As a multicultural, comprehensive institution of higher learning, Oxnard College works to empower and inspire students to succeed in their personal and educational goals and aspirations.

As a unique and accessible community resource, our mission is to provide and promote student learning:

● Transfer, occupational, and general education, second language acquisition, and basic skills development;
● Student services and programs;
● Educational partnerships and economic development; and 
●Opportunities for lifelong learning.

Oxnard College intends to lead its community to fulfill its highest potential.

AUTHORITY
The Committee is recommended by staff and approved by the President. The Committee is appointed by and is advisory to the Executive Vice President of Student Learning of Oxnard College. 

PURPOSE
The Distance Education Committee exists to meet the instructional, communication, computing and research needs of the students, and faculty of Oxnard College. The mission of the Committee is to focus on the delivery of distance education and its environment be it Web or TV enhanced courses to fully online, and to take a proactive leadership role on educational, technological and professional development issues surrounding distance education.

GOALS
● To provide a collaborative venue for shared leadership determining the distance education needs of the College to sustain teaching and information management. 
 ● To plan for the incorporation of various technologies in the teaching and learning activities at the College. 
●  To advise the College and individuals about technological matters pertaining to teaching and learning and information management specific for distance education courses. 
● To help in establishing policies and procedures that can sustain and manage the existing distance education infrastructure and delivery. 
● To author, revise, and oversee the College’s Distance Education Master Plan as this committee goes forward in its establishment (not yet developed at the beginning of the committees existence in Fall 2009) 
● To review, advise, and approve all distance education appendix forms for the Curriculum Committee. 
● To advise the Curriculum Committee and other shared governance committees on all distance education issues. 

OXNARD COLLEGE 
DISTANCE ED COMMITTEE  

MINUTES
FOR THE 
MEETING OF THE DISTANCE ED COMMITTEE
November 1, 2012

2:30 P.M. in the President’s Conference Room

Members Present
Bret Black, Hank Bouma, Teresa Bonham (Chair), Elissa Caruth, Diane Eberhardy, Ishita Edwards, Karen Gorback, Bola King-Rushing, Chris Mainzer, Krista Mendelsohn, Rick Shaw, Evangeline Wilkes

Members Absent
Emma Waits

Welcome/Announcements
Teresa called the meeting to order at 2:32 pm.

Review of the Minutes 
The minutes from October 4, 2012 were reviewed and approved as is.

Action Item Follow-Up
•	High-T Schedule – Oct. 11 event: there was one customer and one drop-in. The topic was different from what Elissa Caruth and Marc Prado planned due to the needs of the customers. The next event is Nov. 8 on designing homepages in D2L by Elissa in the FRC in the Library. The following event is on Dec. 6 with Bola speaking on intelligent agents & Karen speaking on early alerts.
•	Faculty D2L training – Marc Prado hosts a weekly drop-in time on Mondays 10-11am. Marc trained one student to help other students. Discussion ensued about how to help students in D2L.
•	Update on DE appendix for Curriculum – Teresa has requested that old forms be used instead of CurricUNET to simplify review process.
Agenda Items
Action Items
General discussion took place about “district approved CMS”, when there is no such policy from the district. The committee has agreed to use “district provided CMS.”

A question was raised about regular effective contact, and Teresa reminded the group that the DE Committee defined this last year and posted it on the CC website.
1.	Review DE Appendices:  (some were in CurricUNET and some were attached)
ENGL R096 –Approved.
ANTH R101 – Change “District approved CMS would be used” to “District provided CMS may be used.” Approved pending revision.
ANTH R102 – Same comments as ANTH R101.
ANTH R103 – Same comments as ANTH R101. Typo “ype” at end.
ANTH R105 – Same comments as ANTH R101.
ANTH R107 – Same comments as ANTH R101.
ANTH R111 – Same comments as ANTH R101.
ANTH R115 – Same comments as ANTH R101.
CAOT R009 –Clarity on why only one box is checked on Information Transfer? Is it only Delayed Interaction? Approved.
CIS R100 – Remove “an.” Change “Skype” to “video conferencing.” Pluralize “feature” and “student.” Approved pending revision.
CNIT R101 – Missing information in CurricUNET. Make sure Methods of Instruction is in prose, not a list. Need to submit updated appendix. Request revision, not approved.
CNIT R120 – Missing information in CurricUNET. Make sure Methods of Instruction is in prose, not a list. Need to submit updated appendix. Request revision, not approved.
CNIT R121 – Missing information in CurricUNET. Make sure Methods of Instruction is in prose, not a list. Need to submit updated appendix. Request revision, not approved.
DA R009 – Same comments as CAOT R009. Approved.
GEOG R102 – Change to “District provided CMS…” Approved pending revision.
HIST R104 – Expand to include what tools would be used in the CMS. Add more detail. Approved pending revision.
2.	New DE proposals
a.	Discuss any new proposal/qualification forms – Lucy Solomon, Robert Cabral
o	 Lucy is endorsed by the committee. The committee feels that Robert needs more training, or a mentorship. The committee would like significant revision of Robert’s form to incorporate training from Bola.
Discussion Items
•	CurricUNET approval process – Bola – still needs to be worked out, so we are staying with the paper appendix.
•	Distance Ed plan – Open discussion – We have not had time to discuss this yet.
•	Other items/open forum – 
o	Karen G. – Announced a webinar on Dec. 10, 9am to noon, providing a full overview of Distance Education.
o	Chris M. – Upgraded Version 10 D2L is coming. Bola has no new information on this. Our shells in Version 9 will be available Nov. 5. On Dec. 20, everything will be migrated to Version 10.
o	Bola – Should faculty be asked to periodically re-apply for committee’s endorsement? Committee wants to wait to see what happens with faculty contract negotiations and DE financial review.
o	Teresa – Called for nominations for a new committee chair. Elissa Caruth was nominated to be the committee chair beginning in spring. Elissa conditionally declined but is considering it.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:34 pm.	

EXPECTED OUTCOMES

● A venue for the College community to discuss planning and resources related to issues involving distance education delivery, enhancement, and student success in the distance education environment. 
● A completed Distance Education Plan. 
● Appropriate policies and procedures regarding the acquisition, use, and maintenance of educational technology and information management systems in regarding to distance education delivery. 
● A source of information for faculty, staff and management about available and appropriate educational technologies and information management systems in regard to distance education. 
● A source of information to the college campus for professional development training for faculty teaching distance education, and for programs and projects that support students’ development and success in distance education. 

Meeting Schedule

9/6
10/4
11/1
12/6
2/7
3/7
4/4
5/2