August 12 2009 Planning Meeting

Goals for 2009-10:

Include elements of professional development for consortium participants (readings...)
Broaden reach of TDLC within Tufts: reach out to faculty and staff who might want to learn more about distance learning
Create resources for Tufts community engaged or planning to engaged in distance learning (how-to guides, use cases, webcasts)
Engage in dialogue with peer institutions

Ideas:

Better web presence at Tufts and beyond
Meeting frequency: 2 meetings / semester.
Meeting location: Have Boston (Nutrition) and Medford (AT) as physical meeting place. Offer choice to access via Connect
March: Participate in a webcast with RAK students to talk about their experience (Record webcast via Adobe Connect)
Integrate a Distance Learning session in a faculty development event? (coordinate with Rebecca Sholes?)
Dialogue with peer institutions: Boston Ed Tech had a distance learning event. Might want to follow up. (Nercomp?)
Use Cases: University Seminar One Health, Dental School, Nutrition School
1. answer: who, what, why, how, when. How much?
How-to get started guide
1. implementation (ex.: ramp up progressively, or implement full vision all at once)
2. pros/cons of certain approaches in certain contexts (ex: recorded lectures)
3. distance learning on a budget (BB, Spark, Google Docs, Skype...)
4. different funding models
5. discuss topic from different perspectives: technology, instructional design, DL implementation, DL faculty development, faculty support
Rename TDLC? Concern: To a new comer, "Distance Learning" might sound like it is exclusively for "100% online learning". We want to convey that our group explores hybrid models as well. Ideas:
1. = Consortium / Group / Initiative?
2. Tufts Distance Learning and Collaboration ,
3. Tufts Remote Learning, Collaboration and Research ?

Next steps:

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