Elizabeth Wallace

Thompson Rivers University hosted a gathering of about twenty representatives of the UCIPD member insititutions on Friday, Sept. 21st. Many thanks to Penny Heaslip and our other TRU hosts for making everyone welcome.

The agenda is attached and resources from the meeting (e.g. Norm Friesen's PowerPoint slides) are being uploaded to this SCoPE site in the next few days.

This is an invitation to the members who made the journey to Kamloops to post their institutional updates in this SCoPE forum, to provide links which will connect us with information, and to attach any relevant documents. This is also an opportunity to continue the discussion of issues raised at the gathering, and to build the capacity of UCIPD to play a leadership role in educational development in BC.

A reminder that this Special Interest Group (SIG) is private at the moment, If you agree with that, or if you believe it should be publicly available (we have 1300 registered SCoPE members and hundreds more surfers) please indicate your preferece in the poll at: http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/course/view.php?id=22 

In order to keep the info and resources from the meeting all in one place, I suggest you reply to this message so that we have it all in one thread. If you prefer to start a new thread, use the "Add a New Topic" link. My usual reminder that you will be prompted for a password if you click on the links below to reply or see the posting in context. Unless you changed it, your ID and password are taken from the first part of your email address (e.g. ewallace, ewallace).

As some of you know, I had some car problems and had to leave the meeting early, so for selfish reasons, I'm really, really looking forward to reading your postings :-)

Liz

Nancy Randall has just sent out an invitation to be involved in a great proposal she is developing for BCcampus.

I'd like to follow up with another invitation for Expressions of Interest in a project that SFU is developing with regard to this SCoPE site.

We are proposing to create a compilation (yet to be named) of online Professional Development being offered by BC insitutions, and perhaps beyond. If we are able to secure BCcampus funding, we would like to invite all BC Educational Institutions to make information available about their online PD offerings. That information would be included in a compilation of online PD to be housed on the SCoPE community platform, for wide dissemination.

At present, I am trying to guage interest in this project by asking anyone who is delivering online PD, and who would like to be included in the compiled listing, to please contact me privately.This expression of interest does not imply a commitment. If funding is obtained, you will be contacted to discuss whether you wish to provide information for SCoPE.

I'll raise this again at the UCIPD meeting on Feb 21st, for those who are in Kamloops, but please email me at ewallace@sfu.ca or reply to this posting in SCoPE.

Thanks,

Liz

You are being sent this message from SCoPE because you are a member of the UCIPD Network.  At the bottom are links so you can see this message in context or reply. If you want to do either, you will be prompted to log in using your email address as an ID and the first part of your email as a password (unless you have changed it).

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Greetings everyone. This UCIPD discussion forum has been "resting" over the past few months while everyone has been at the beach. I hope you are all continuing to enjoy the summer. 

Thank you to everyone who has completed the two polls on re-naming UCIPD and indicating whether our forum should be password-protected. The poll will remain open until after Labour Day so please indicate your preferences at: http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/course/view.php?id=22

And now to address the topic in my subject line above. At the STLHE Conference in June, I heard some very interesting information about a new pan-Canadian quality and accountability framework.

The Ministerial Statement on Qaulify Assurance of Degree Education in
Canada can be found at: http://www.cmec.ca/postsec/qa/QA-Statement-2007.en.pdf

Standards are being set, including for example, Standard 7.4 which states:

7.4 Program Delivery – The delivery methods should allow students to
achieve the proposed learning outcomes at the degree-level standard. This should
normally be measured by looking at whether the delivery methods are
appropriate to the course content, the students involved, and the proposed
learning outcomes; the effectiveness of the expertise and resources, both
human and material, that support the program and its students; and the
processes for students’ feedback.

As you will read, the provincial ministries, including BC, are supporting the Ministerial Statement: http://www.cmec.ca/postsec/qa/QA-report-2007.en.pdf

Informing this initiative is the US National Survey of Student Engagement.
http://nsse.iub.edu/index.cfm

All this is already being rolled out in Ontario, where the Ont Council of Academic VPs (OCAV) has published this:
http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/handbook/general/OCAV_Guidelines_2005.pdf

As an example of the work being done in Ontario, York University has set up a blog so that institutions can share information:
http://degree-expectations.apps01.yorku.ca/wordpress/

The presenter at STLHE cheerfully announced that this would all roll out across Canada once our Ontario friends had considered it.  Is this something that any of UCIPD members have started to look into? If so, let's talk about it here.

Regards,

Liz

This forum invites participants in the 2007 ISSOTL conference in Sydney, Australia, to engage in a conversation about the concept of Knowledges Exchange. In the presentation on July 2, Liz Wallace suggested that exchanges in SCoPE contributed to the development of scholarship in teaching and learning. Details of the presentation will be included in this forum, and as the conference proceeds, and comments are welcome

http://www.ualberta.ca/~uts/STLHE/