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Issue
Why can't we have learning at the center?
Convener
Rick Effland
Participants
Jerrilee Mosier
Roy Cohen
Bill Crawford
Margaret Hunt
Jetta Cous
Manny Griego
Bob Bendotti
Marilyn Wood
Gayla Preisser
Pat Honzay
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Discussion and Recommendations
- What keeps us from doing this?
- What does it mean to have student at center?
Department would work together/cross discipline;
Way courses are offered;
Schedules/compressing courses is it to the learner's benefit?
How much influence do faculty have on the system?
Support for non-traditional scheduling [i.e. weekend]. How can services be provided for students when they need them and want them at what cosf?
If we make learning top priority at the maximum cosf benefit or do we let cosf become the sole driving force FTSE;
FTSE may or may not impact what is altered at different levels;
What is good for learning it does not have an effect on hiring decisions;
FTSE's impact on student services look at advisors as salesmen;
Fundamental conflict between the present business centered model and the learner centered model;
Move from faculty/institution centered to student/learner centered;
Question as to why students are here/what do they want;
Want it when they want it/want the courses to transfer don't see a lot of students taking classes just to learn/want to get a degree/job;
Have a responsibility to give students an education/not to give them what they want if it decreases learning;
Implies that the person is interested in learning many customers/students are not interested in learning;
Student has a choice if they are not being served they can go other places. If we don't someone else will;
Non-traditional structures do not imply inferior learning but we don't know because we don't have the data;
Content plus skills that goes into being a learned person and those elements that are part of being a human being;
Learning takes place outside of the classroom;
Changing demographics of students older;
Michael Dolence 1/3 of student population here to learn;
Accommodation of older students and needs work hours, family demands;
Attentive delivery modes;
Assessment is critical;
Learners learning from other learners/building cohorts;
Engineering technical skills, important, but social skills and people skills mosf important;
We do all of this, meeting students needs, it is all to the degree to which it is offered offer a variety;
Access is important, but not the mosf critical;
Let's create the better learning environment and market it;
Do we know what technology is going to be used in coming years;
Continued learning by faculty to reach student cohorts;
Where is the systemic effort to help faculty remain connected particularly in the use of technology and the support for it's use;
Support is broad based not only applies to technology, but weekend, late evenings;
Issue of adjunct faculty and support;
Support staff/classified/work-study/students, etc.;
How much prescribed as opposed to self selected;
Give time and money to support learning efforts;
Tremendous money being spent on activities that have no relationship to learning;
Have fallen in to top down;
Purpose of open space grass roots level, however participation limited;
Disconnects exist a lot of talk but there doesn't seem to be a connect with the faculty who are directly interfacing with students;
What about faculty who don't use or know how to use structures systems to assist students/SIS;
Departments get disconnected within campus cultures;
Physical space is part of the chasm between departments separate buildings;
If someone wants to have a dialogue get up and walk somewhere How do we motivate others to do?
Do we have an environment that fosfers interdisciplinary relationships?
Where is the focus of learning within the district? Leadership to establish a culture/to nurture a culture;
Mission of district not learning, but FTSE;
Leadership needs to be moved from the top to more of the center of the organization;
Need to be at least interested in talking about it learning;
Accessibility of leadership is a problem.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Leadership needs to be moved from the top to more of the center of the organization - physical space as well as in other ways - need to be involved in the dialogue;
Need to engender a cultural atmosphere which supports and encourages learning;
Need to step forward if not us then who?
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