New Ideas for Ocotillo...

• Need to get more faculty involved in discussions
• Need to have external sources message/validate the need for educational refocus
• Look at the Strategic Conversation as a format for discussion & planning
• How do we move discussion to implementation & application
• Some project based groups bring more focus & involvement
• Need to find a way to involve & include PT Faculty in discussions
• Find way to link discussions to "products", $$, grants, to help implement ideas/approaches. This will increase participation. Helps to bring closure to discussion/ideas.
• STRUCTURE--more planned activities for us left-brainers
• Learning needs a balance between structure and unstructure
• Maybe some modules on how to use some technology like Internet
• Like very much the informal, underlying structure! Relaxed and thought provoking discussion. Variety of feedback ways.
• Disconnect between level/types of student comments and faculty comments
• Course competencis do not align from course-to-course. Requisite skills often missing.
• MCCCD still bound by credit hours = degree
• Need to move to integrated, interdisciplinary teams of faculty => look at elementary and middle school models
• We have taught students to view disciplines as isolated/unrelated. Cannot apply skills to actucal applications
• Assessment should be authentic to reflect skills that will be used in real context.
• Lecture vs. Group
• Sometimes group work is waste of time
• Some lectures (mixed with other pieces) can be effective
• Some subjects may lend themselves to group/co-op learning more than others (i.e. opinion-rich course, e.g. PoliSci, may be toughter to have effective groups than Process/Skill-rich courses e.g. Math, Physics, etc.)