Professional+Development

Lead - Stephanie Delaney - Cascadia College Participants - Andy Duckworth - Tacoma Community College, Marc Lentini - Highline Community College, Michael Shepard - Whatcom Community College, Scott Dennis - Lower Columbia College, Boyoung Chae - SBCTC, Rick McKinnon - South Puget Sound Community College
 * Priority 1 -** **Professional Development**
 * In collaboration with IC, determine faculty professional development needs
 * Re-visit faculty and student [|TTTF survey results]
 * Faculty focus groups
 * Requirements
 * Universal design
 * Shared system-wide

**Professional Development documents and information from the State Board** Here are documents that we have prepared for WAOL PD thus far. We are hoping that the ELC PD group will help us in a number of areas. ** These are: 1. Help with organizing college training submissions 2. Help with decisions about development (when, what, where, how, why) 3. Help with system-wide instructional designer resources 4. Help with conveying faculty communication back and forth 5. Organization and maintenance of the WAOLOR
 * an org chart [[file:WAOL Professional Development Org Chart FINAL.pptx]],
 * buckets of projects - what we are working on now sheet, [[file:PD Buckets - Organizing Ideas.doc]]
 * an excel spreadsheet with the current course and those under development, and [[file:SBCTC eLearning PD SChedule 2009-2010.xlsx]]
 * a draft WAOLOR organization chart are attached. [[file:WAOLOR Structure Draft.xlsx]]
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The professional development workgroup met on April 14. The group reviewed the Faculty and student TFF survey results to get a feel for what was needed. The group also reviewed the SBCTC professional development org chart, current projects and current items under development. The group observed that the field has changed significantly since this goal was developed last year. There is much more training being shared around the system. Formal and informal trainings over the last year have included
 * Notes from the Professional Development Workgroup Meeting **
 * ELC support of local college administrators in using Elluminate for meetings
 * ELC leadership on best practices for Elluminate meetings
 * sharing ideas, experiences and best practices for ANGEL in the ANGEL Administrator meetings

This raises the question of what more the ELC should do to help. We talked about Question for the broader ELC commission – **what do you see as the role of the ELC in training going forward**? Comments from the ELC
 * coordinating & disseminating the training
 * Encouraging faculty training
 * Giving feedback on ongoing efforts in system and by SBCTC
 * Possibly having a quarterly best practice online conference through Elluminate to enable faculty to share and learn best practices.
 * Focus on training on the new tools coming into the system
 * Adopt the BTC model with communities of practice
 * Fill in gap left by shrinking faculty training staff and assist with strategies for coordination between eLearning and Teaching & Learning Centers.
 * Provide shared resources for training (maybe use a LOR?)
 * Coordinate workshops to encourage inter campus participation
 * Use regional reps to build avenues of coordination
 *  Use Doodle for scheduling workshops