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 such as leadership, programs, services, strategic planning, etc.

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Continuous Improvement

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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.

CATEGORIES

• 0.0 Institution, Department, or Program Overview• 1.0 Leadership• 2.0 Purposes and Plans• 3.0 Beneficiaries and Constituencies• 4.0 Programs and Services• 5.0 Faculty, Staff, and Workplace• 6.0 Assessment and Information Use• 7.0 Outcomes and Achievements

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• 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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