Meeting Date: 
June 14, 2017
Date: 
06/14/2017 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: 
109 Gilkey Hall
Event Description: 

A PDF of the agenda can be found here.

A PDF of the minutes can be found here.

Agenda: 
  1. Survey Updates
  • Build complete and reviewed by JoAnne Bunnage from Faculty Senate Executive Committee
  • Testing in progress
  • Distribution in fall; timing? Best time in term? Day of week?
  • Distribution considerations: 
  • There is no inform list that is exclusively for teaching faculty and not for non-teaching faculty
  • Faculty Senate can send on behalf of OEC (we should state at the top that it is intended for teaching faculty)
  • A notice with a link can be included in OSU today, CLA today, etc.
  • OEC members can ask school or department heads to send out an email
  • Other ideas?

 

  1. Review Year End Report

 

  1. Goals/Ideas for Next Year
  • Survey distribution and analysis of results
  • P&T guidelines
  • Online peer review guidelines
  • Increasing opportunities for awards/recognition of online teachers/students
  • Other goals/ideas?

 

4.  Walk-on Agenda Items

 

Minutes: 

Voting members present: Cheridy Aduviri, Nancy Allen, Vipin Arora, Raven Chakerian, Jon Dorbolo, Stephen Redfield
Voting members absent: Marita Barth, Jason Sarkozi Farfinski

 

Survey updates:

  • Discussed state of survey.  The Qualtrics build is complete.  It has been reviewed, tested and approved by JoAnne Bunnage (Faculty Senate Executive Committee) and Cub Kahn (Center for Teaching and Learning)
  • Committee looked at the survey in its current Qualtrics format and identified typos, extra words not needed on conditional questions, inconsistencies with wording, and areas that need clarification.  (Raven will fix these as discussed)
  • Discussed whether more testing was needed and decided against it
  • Agreed to distribute during week three of fall term, probably on Tuesday (OEC committee will meet in week two)
  • Discussed early distribution at faculty retreats and other events our committee members may be participating in (link will be active and available for pre-distribution)
  • Discussed distribution considerations: 
    • there is no inform list that is exclusively for teaching faculty and not for non-teaching faculty
    • faculty senate can send on our behalf (we should state at the top that it is intended for teaching faculty)
    • we can include a notice with a link in OSU today, CLA today, etc.
    • we can ask school or department heads to send out an email
    • Jon brought up the idea of using Qualtrics to distribute the survey based on a list of teaching faculty from H.R.; discussed advantages and disadvantages
    • Jon also brought up mail merge in Word as an option
    • Discussed need to make sure adjuncts and TAs are reached as well
  • Next steps: Raven and Stephanie will complete final edits and provide link for early distribution

 

Review Year End Report:

  • The activity report through April was reviewed and discussed as a basis for the yearend report that will be compiled by the OEC chair.
  • Suggestion was made to highlight primary activities (survey, p&t, scope and standing rule changes, etc.)
  • Suggestion also made to focus on what results of our “extensive discussions” were
  • Discussed incorporating committees goals for next year into the year end report

Goals/ideas for next year:

  • Distribute survey and analyze results
    • Discussed limitations of our committee in terms of analysis of results
    • The idea of having an advanced statistics student or students take on the analysis of our survey results as a project was brought up
  • Finish development of P & T guidelines for online faculty
  • Finish development of online peer review guidelines
  • Find ways to increase opportunities for awards/recognition of online teachers/students