Objective 1.5.2 Strategies and Benchmarks
1.5.2 Working with the academic units, the DLC will coordinate all distance education planning, programming, scheduling, budgeting, specialized funding (grants) and related assessment.
In FY '07 efforts will include educating UMA faculty, deans and coordinators, and UC Center Directors about UMA distance learning plans and strategies. Schedule planning will be more inclusive with Center Directors more involved. The Dean of L&DL will meet with Deans and Center Directors to continue to refine processes to best meet UMA student needs at a distance. New cancellation strategies will be explored for the Centers UMA works most closely with. Deans and Coordinators will be more active in recruiting instructors for online courses and “back up” sections.
The benchmark for FY '07 is that deans and coordinators are more involved in the scheduling and delivery of courses to UMA students at a distance and that Center Directors have higher levels of input into the selection of courses for their regions. Ten more online sections of required and gen. ed. UMA courses will be offered beginning in the Spring of 2008.
During FY '08, schedule building for all courses at a distance will be included on one spreadsheet and Center Directors will be copied. All participants delivering courses to UMA students at a distance will be more aware of the overall plan of courses packaged and delivered at a distance. Also in the second year, UMA will offer greater numbers of online courses and sections to meet the growing demand. UMA must do a better job of retaining our own students in online courses rather than forfeiting them to other UMS schools because of their greater online course selection and/or capacity.
The benchmark for FY '08 is that all UMA courses offered a distance are on one spreadsheet which all participants can access, and that the flow of communication among Deans, Coordinators and Center Directors is problem free. And at least 200 more online registrations (600 credit hours) per semester are realized in each successive year beginning in FY '09. Further, that those 600 credit hours represent growth rather than offsetting lost registrations in ITV or distance on-site courses.