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Ocotillo Retreat 98
Flagstaff, AZ
May 19-20, 1998
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The agenda retreat was developed by the Ocotillo faculty chairs through a process much like Open Space Forums.

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The agenda for the 1998 Ocotillo Retreat was developed by the faculty chairs, one from each college Ocotillo roundtable. The format for the retreat discussion is modeled somehat after the Open Spaces Technologies developed by Harrison Owen, and widely used this past year with the learning@maricopa.edu project.

At the February Ocotillo Chairs meeting, it was decided to select 5 issues that could be addressed at the retreat, and the chairs brainstormed a list of 19 potential issues.

Each of the chairs took this list back to their college roundtables and decided from their perspective, which were the most critical issues.

The responses were tallied at the March Chairs meeting, and the top five issues that emerged were:

  1. Assessment and evaluation [9]
  2. Access (remote, student, faculty) [8]
  3. Faculty development [6]
  4. Distance learning [5]
  5. Technology staffing (hiring, keeping) [5]
We then agreed to refine these issues before the retreat by having each chair go back to their college roundtable, and answer the following 5 questions for each issue:
  1. What is __________ ? [your definition]
  2. What are the issues with __________ ?
  3. What are your experiences with addressing __________ ? [what did you learn?]
  4. What is the status of __________ now?
  5. What kinds of data can we collect about __________ on an ongoing basis?
Pre-Retreat Responses:
These would then become the discussion topics for the first day of the retreat, and with notes taken on laptop computers, we could compile the results and have them printed for the next days activities. After the retreat, all summaries will be posted from this web site.

Forums 1 & 2 Summaries:
After the retreat, the faculty chairs met and agreed to develop a set of recommendations for followup actions:
Reccomendations for post-retreat action: (from ocotillo chairs)
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