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
October 4, 2012

2:30 P.M. in the LRC Conference Room

Members Present
Bret Black, Teresa Bonham – Chair, Ishita Edwards, Karen Gorback, Chris Mainzer, Krista Mendelsohn, Rick Shaw – Guest

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

Review of the Minutes 
The minutes from September 6, 2012 were reviewed and approved as is.

Action Item Follow-Up
•	D2L Tutors – Teresa announced that there are trained tutors in the library to help with D2L.
•	High-T Schedule – The High-T schedule was emailed to the committee by Teresa. She will also share it with Academic Senate.
•	Faculty D2L training – Marc Prado will hold a weekly drop-in hour from 11am to 12pm every Monday starting on October 15 to help faculty with eLumen, CurricUNET, etc.
•	Update on DE appendix for Curriculum – It is now available on SharePoint.
Agenda Items
Action Items
1.	Review DE Appendices:  (some were in CurricUNET and some were attached)
SOC R105 – Replace “Desire2Learn” with “district-approved CMS.” First three lines need more detail. Add methods to show how students are interacting online. Check “other” box. Approved pending revision.
SOC R108 – Should Banner title be abbreviated? Teresa will check. “The students can submit questions…” Replace “Desire2Learn” with “district-approved CMS.” Other box: Teresa will ask Marie what the intent is. Approved pending revision.
ENGL R102 – Replace “Skype” with “online video conferencing.” Approved pending revision.
MATH R001 – Change this to match the wording used in the MATH R002 DL appendix. Approved pending revision.
MATH R002 – Committee likes wording of this better than MATH R001 and R003. Approved pending revision.
MATH R003 – Change this to match the wording used in the MATH R002 DL appendix. Approved pending revision.
ANTH R105 – Needs to be redone. Are these examples supposed to be in Typical Outside Assignments? Teresa will review this with Linda. Not approved.
ANTH R111 – Boxes are checked, but no text in the methods. Not approved.
ART R101 – What is “discussion-based instructor feedback”? Add “district-approved CMS.” Approved pending revision.
ASL R103 – Add “district-approved CMS.” Specify what a v-log is; video-log, video blog? There needs to be some form of two-way interaction, i.e. Skype; needs to have instructor interaction. Not approved.
PLS R101-R108 – Using instructor’s personal website, or district-approved CMS? Needs to check boxes. Approved pending revision.
2.	New DE proposals
a.	Discuss any new proposal/qualification forms – Lucy Hg, Robert Cabral – Tabled until next meeting.
Discussion Items
3.	CurricUNET approval process – Bola – Tabled until Bola can be present.
4.	Distance Ed plan – Open discussion – Tabled until next meeting.
5.	Other items/open forum – None
The meeting was adjourned at 3:37pm.	

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