Elizabeth Wallace

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

Hi Penny:

Thanks for using this forum to reach UCIPD members. I'll be talking about use of SCoPE for UCIPD on the 21st. so this is a good example of how it might benefit the group.

As far as I know, Nancy Randall, Nancy Sly and Janice Johnson have been holding UCIPD together ever since government funding disappeared, so they can answer your questions better than I. But based on the membership list in SCoPE, which duplicates the email membership list, there are about 85 individuals with membership. These represent most of the post-secondary institutions in BC, and include staff of centres, as well as a few interested people. Paul Stacey from BCcampus is on this SCoPE list, for example.

No, there are no formal terms of reference, and it has come up from time to time. It may be part of our discussion at TRU. I has been pointed out that without a formal structure and an elected executive and all the other structures of a not-for-profit group, it is difficult to apply for funding or to gain other recognition. In the few years I've been involved, meetings have settled into a regular rhythm of twice a year gatherings, with a volunteer institution hosting for a day.

I hope others will reply to your question. Recommended that you click on the "see this post in context" link at the bottom of the email message generated. You will be prompted for an ID and password, which was originally set up as the first part of your email unless you changed it (e.g.ewallace, ewallace).

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

Thanks for this information, Paul, and for posting it in the UCIPD forum in SCoPE.  For members who are wondering, because of the way SCoPE Is set up, the message will be received in the Inbox of UCIPD members' regular mail client, but actually is a post in SCoPE.

Paul, I'm sending this reply from Edmonton where I'm attending the STLHE Conference (Societyfor Teaching and Learning in Higher Education). Many UCIPD members are here, and so I'll start a conversation in person about the possibilities of working together on a proposal. For those members who are not in Edmonton, please reply to this message so we can begin to collaborate.

Hint: you will be prompted for your ID and password if you want to reply (reading doesn't need a p'wprd). We set that up as the first part of your email address originally, so mine would have been ID:ewallace, P'word ewallace. Of course I changed it after that, and you may have too, but it's worth a try. Send me a regular email at ewallace@sfu.ca if you need help.

Cheers,

Liz