Objective

Action Plan / Pathways

Timeline & Responsibility

Assessment Methods

Facilitate an increase in GSU’s online course/program presence, increase faculty support and interest in online course development, and improve course quality to meet student demand and keep abreast of contemporary trends in Higher Education.

Work with Deans, Chairs and faculty to identify priorities and create more effective strategies for online course development

Work with Deans, Chairs and faculty to implement phased strategies to successfully expand online presence.

Work with faculty and chairs to develop better online assessment tools to provide quality feedback to students and codify and implement standards for faculty to assess course quality.

COTL Faculty with consultation and support from Division Chair and Vice Provost.   Ongoing with strategy document due Oct 2009

COTL Faculty responsible for coordination of support.  Ongoing based upon strategies/timelines agreed upon with colleges.

COTL to identify tools, introduce them to faculty and provide training in their use.  This will be an important criterion in evaluation whether to move to a new LMS.

Document meetings and their results.  Provide written report/strategy document.

As appropriate to strategies developed above.  Regular monitoring against specific goals.

Also evaluate online registrations.

Monitor & document the adoption of new assessment tools in courses and provide annual report on progress.

Improve infrastructure necessary to support higher levels of online enrollment with enriched media and a reliable, high quality online environment.

Assess the infrastructure needs including servers, Internet capacity, university network capacity and streaming media support needs. Set priorities and find incremental strategies that can maximize our capabilities despite inadequate budgets.

DLMD faculty/technical staff in collaboration with ITS and guided by Vice Provost.  Initial assessment by May 1, 2009.

Ongoing, with timelines TBD by outcomes of initial investigation

Review of each technology piece of the chain in accordance with projected needs.

Further evaluation by annual comparison of capacities and progress towards stated goals.

Continue to support and guide the development of GSU’s learning management systems and provide the training and support required by faculty, staff and students to use these systems more extensively and more effectively.

Articulate needs and how well/poorly our current system meets them.

Evaluate alternatives together with transition costs, direct & indirect.

Develop strategy and timelines for implementation.

Provide additional online training experiences for faculty in LMS and online teaching/course development.

COTL faculty with support from DLMD Director, Vice Provost in consultation with ITS and GSU faculty.  Evaluation of alternatives by August 2009

Decision and timelines by Oct 2009 

COTL to develop training as part of faculty development process described above.

Evaluation document agreed upon by participants.

Adoption of strategy developed through above process.

Part of evaluation of faculty development programs

Provide training necessary to increase use of technology by faculty and staff to deliver high quality services and improve efficiency.

Partner with ITS and others to implement more effective training, identify human barriers to increased use of technology, and devise appropriate solutions.

DLMD faculty and staff with advice of Vice Provost and others.

Sept 2009 – deadline for plan for AY 09 -10. Implementation begins Sept 09.

Build evaluation components into training programs to assess effectiveness.

Evaluate improved operational efficiencies.

Internal Process Improvement

Evaluate DLMD functions/processes

DLMD Director, Faculty, Staff

Document discussions/results