What is our current state?
We are all over the board, with a lot of grass roots efforts, taking
care of local needs.
What needs are being addressed?
Student needs
Teacher needs
Community needs
What about the state involvement?
It could help to have a state vision of what distance education is
all about, bringing together CIM, CAM, and PASS in a distance education
curriculum.
(Isn't CIM, CAM and PASS already enough for ODE to handle?)
What is our biggest challenge
Getting content up and running!
Kirk deFord is a member of the K-20 Distance Education Work Group - This
is a group of community college, Oregon univeristy system and K-12 leaders
who are working to hash out these issues. Should be done in next 6 months --
should come out with a direction to follow (or none!).
What are our financial concerns?
* Economy of scale balanced with local support
* Better ways to cross school/district boundaries without impacting
financial concerns
* Systems and policies in place that address on-line students.
(Dare we say vouchers? Note that in Washington there is a system that
allows for schools to be paid based on student attendance.)
* Some sort of scheduling normalization for v-tel issues
What are our course creation concerns?
* Content/teacher structure. Who creates the content?
* "Open source curriculum", following the Linux model.
Note that MIT is putting ALL of their curriculum on-line,
emphasizing that the teacher is what is critical to their classes.
* Legal issues.
Who owns the content?
Contacts:
Kirk deFord,
kdeford@nwrel.org
-- K-20 Distance Education Work Group
Jim Saffeels,
saffeels_jim@salkeiz.k12.or.us
-- SKONLINE
Martha Chamberlin,
martha@peak.org
-- Curriculum structure grant (through OSU)
