Durham College COED 2009 Update

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This is not the "official" Durham update--just my take on it...

Durham's Innovation Centre has been a shared service with UOIT, but plans are underway for the "disentanglement" of the shared services here as the college and uni become more independent entities. We are unsure as yet of the impact of these changes, but are doing our best to assess the priority needs of our clients and ensure continuation of support for these.

We continue to have great demand for WebCT support, especially during grade submission times, but increasingly our inquiries are about how to better use the tool to support learning.

Karen Hodgins has retired as our Curriculum Specialist, and has been replaced by a secondee from the Health area, Sandy Odrowski. Our WebCT Support person, June McDonald-Jenkins, has moved on to head up our new Applied Research office, but we have not yet replaced her. Our office now includes Durham's Director of Program Development and Quality Initiatives, Susan Barclay-Pereira, a good fit for our shared work.

Ruth Rodgers, Teaching & learning Specialist, Durham College


"Official" Durham College update by Chris Hinton, Director Innovation Centre


Sucesses

  • Hosted the EDC conference this past winter – first time at a college
  • Did “On Course” training for 50 faculty in spring, program has great promise for student success through active learning. http://oncourseworkshop.com/On%20Course%20Principles.htm
  • New web site(s) http://innovation.durhamcollege.ca/ and http://innovation.uoit.ca/
  • So far this year we delivered 111 training courses to 629 attendees (DC and UOIT)
  • To date 1479 hours of one on one consulting
  • Launched a new curriculum quality assurance process called Annual Curriculum Renewal
  • Our learning objects on mental health for first responders developed in collaboration with UOIT, Ontario Shores Mental Health, and Durham Regional Police is a mandatory training element for police officers.
  • New Academic Plan


Challenges

  • Students divided attention in the classrooms – variously blamed on the technology, on faculty not engaging their students, classroom management, the digital divide, and so on. Faculty are peeved and students want choice.
  • Our relationship with UOIT is changing in the new fiscal year.
  • Developing metrics for quality in the use of hybrid learning.
  • Supporting the curriculum demands for new program development.
  • Supporting the professional development of a growing part-time faculty work force.


Plans

  • To begin development of a web-based course outline tool for the management and development of course outlines that will include program outcome linkages and automatic program mapping.
  • Define and implement minimum usage levels of WebCT.
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