Brainstorming+Sessions

Strategy I > Al > Claver > BEN > SCOTT > Tina > Sue > Kathy > Carol > Dante > Kyla > Sandi > Rick > Jerry L. > Jen > Andy > Jerry M. > Marc > SCOTT > Sara > Ed Sargent > Tina > Kyla > Sandi > Sue > Rick > Beth > Vicki > Andy > Marie > Stephanie > Carol > Dante > Tom Br > Claver > Sara > Sandi > Ann > Claver > Al > Marie > Beth > Jill > Jerry M. > Jen > Debby > Patricia > Carol > Dante > Sue > Kathy > Vicki > Ann > Andy > Jill
 * Action 1: eLearning. Assemble a system-wide suite of online teaching and learning tools, support services, and a central 24/7 help desk through WashingtonOnline to accommodate online, hybrid, and web-enhanced classes in all colleges.
 * **Action 2: Free Textbooks.** Wherever possible, eliminate published textbooks in favor of free, open, online materials.
 * **Action 3: Library Resources.** Create a rich, easily accessible online library system that includes both global and local learning resources, and tutorials on how to use them. Instead of having colleges buy individual licenses (online subscriptions), buy statewide licenses for online journals and library reference services. Provide a common, robust integrated library operating system through which students can find and check out books and other library resources from libraries across the state and the world. This library system will support seamless sharing of book collections, document delivery and information literacy instruction across the community and technical colleges and with the university system.
 * **Action 4: ePortfolio.** Provide a statewide platform that allows students to create lifetime online portfolios of their academic work, from first essays to PhD theses and professional work products. Students digital portfolios will show what they know and what they’ve built, and can be used as an online resume to help them get a job.
 * Action 5: Online Tutoring. Collaborate with other higher education institutions to support the Northwest eTutoring Consortium, a statewide system for online tutoring. (This project is now being piloted in math, economics, statistics and writing by twelve community and technical colleges and Washington State University.)
 * **Action 6: Technology Proficiency.** Create an assessment that measures students’ proficiency in using online technology, and easy-to-use tutorials and personal support to bring those unfamiliar with the online environment up to speed.
 * **Action 7: Access.** Investigate the feasibility of providing laptops to students who cannot afford them. Support Washington broadband initiatives to bring high-speed Internet access to every Washington student’s home.
 * **Action 8: Universal Design.** Ensure that all online, hybrid and enhanced courses and college web sites are fully accessible to students with disabilities. Provide faculty and staff professional development on universal design best practices.

Strategy III > Stephanie > BEN > Marc > Al > Tina > Sara > Ed Sargent > Tom Br > Kyla > Kathy > Jerry L. > Marie > Debby > Patricia > Debbie > Patricia > Rick > Vicki > Stephanie > BEN > Tom Br > Jerry L. > Ann > Jerry M. > SCOTT > Jen > Ed Sargent > Marc > Beth > Jill
 * **Action 1: Professional Development.** Strengthen and expand professional development programs and create the expectation that all faculty, staff and college leaders will continue to learn, collaborate, share knowledge and resources, and work together to make the best use of new technologies to improve student learning. Use new methods such as webinars, multi-disciplinary faculty learning communities, and social networking software to extend the reach of professional development.
 * **Action 2: Time to Learn.** Make learning to use new technologies an explicit part of job descriptions and duties, and organize time to include professional development and collaboration within regular work schedules.
 * **Action 3: Learning Opportunities.** Aggregate the colleges’ purchasing power for professional development. Create a statewide fund to support faculty participation in cutting edge conferences (both in person and online) and ask participants to share what they learn with their colleagues with social networking and webinar software. Buy a statewide membership in leading national professional development consortia, and extend benefits to all faculty and staff. Advertise these opportunities to faculty and staff throughout the system.
 * **Action 4: Course Redesign.** Develop faculty capacity to continually improve the quality of online courses through collaborative, iterative design. Develop a peer review methodology for evaluating and redesigning existing and new online courses.
 * **Action 5: IT Staff.** Create a statewide structure that provides consistent opportunities for IT staff in both colleges and at the State Board to learn, collaborate, and share best practices as they make the transition from software developers to integration experts who tie together best-of-breed applications. Create a process to support career advancement and leadership development.
 * **Action 6: Support Innovation.** Establish and fund system-wide innovation and testing projects to pilot emerging technologies. Create a rapid response team that can take innovative ideas and implement them promptly. Partner with corporations and other higher education institutions to seek new ways to make learning more accessible to all Washington residents.