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Using the Sakai CLE to Conduct a Departmental Self Study
Dr. Reba-Anna Lee, Asst. Director of Academic technology and eLearningMarist CollegeJune 15,2010
Session Overview
• About Marist College• What is accreditation/self-study?• Why and How we used Sakai CLE• Q & A
211th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010
About Marist College
• Comprehensive liberal arts college
• Located in Poughkeepsie, New York
• 5700 FTE students, 200 full-time faculty, 500 part-time faculty
• Reputation as technology innovator
• Strategic plan calls for growth in distance learning
What is a Self Study?
• An internal review/reflection on how your organization handles criteria in various areas including but not limited to the following:
• Institution, Department, or Program Overview• Leadership• Purposes and Plans• Beneficiaries and Constituencies• Programs and Services• Faculty, Staff, and Workplace• Assessment and Information Use• Outcomes and Achievements
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The challenge for us is to extend our assessment models to include a greater emphasis on performance, results, outcomes, and impact…
… and to link assessment activities to planning and improvement.
• How were we going to do this self assessment?
• 75+ employees• 14 divisions within• All employees needed to participate• Volumes of information to share and reflect
upon
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IT Department Structure
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Using Sakai
• Group education• Educating staff on the technology• Educating staff on the Baldrige framework and
EHE standards• Structure of the self study
• Week for questions• Weekly due dates• Timely Feedback
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Using Sakai
• What tools to use?• Online – Sakai Collaborative Learning
Environment(CLE)• Wiki• Resources• Announcements• Messages• Blogger • Podcasts
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Face to face tools
• Weekly meeting presentations• Meeting notes (Blogger tool)• Focus groups
• Transcription of focus groups• Feedback generated by focus groups
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Wiki
• Benchmarks were put into place in order to keep the project on track• Questions due weekly in Wiki
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Announcements and Messages
Announcements Messages
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Resources
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Blogger
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(Lessons Learned)
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Lessons Learned
• Patience – the entire process is continuous and time intensive
• Be prepared to review and repeat material/information as needed.
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Hybrid Heaven: Using the Sakai CLE to Conduct a Detailed Self Study
Tuesday 3:25-4:30 PMGrand Mesa A
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