Oregon Online Leaders Meeting

February 27, 2004

Present: Camille Cole, Dave Moore, Jim Rose, Duane Jager, Tryna Luton, Jennifer Arns, Jim Saffeels, Marty Karlin (retired), Tina Mondale, Carla Wade, Tom Luba, Stella Brown, Susan Waddell, Mark Finch

I. Vision

	Key attributes were brainstormed and listed as follows:
	K-12
	Web based
	Accessible for all students
	Student centered – driven by student need
	Address Oregon Content Standards
	Increase opportunities
	Flexibility in scheduling
	Flexibility in completion time
	High quality content
	Research based
	Continuous improvement
	Accountable
	Programs meet accreditation standards
	Transferable credit
	Publicly funded; free to student, FAPE
	Designed to increase student success
	Designed to decrease dropout rate

Suggested vision statement Vision for Online:

	Web-based
	Accessible for all students
	Asynchronous
	Student centered/driven by their needs
	Addresses OR content standards
	Increases opportunities
	Flexibility built in terms of scheduling, start and stop dates,
	Affective, superb, pre-eminent pedagogy
	Research based
	Research for continuous improvement
	Accountability
	Widely accepted vision – K-20, all districts, especially toward credit, accreditation
	Seamless articulation agreements, part of the standard curriculum
	Transferable credit
	Tuition free- publicly funded as part of regular cost to kid
	Sustainability both in funding and infrastructure including accommodations and modifications for certain populations
	An integral component of a “Free appropriate public education”
	504 and IDEA compliant
	Designed to increase student success rates, academic achievement and reduce early leavers and decrease drop out rates.

OR vision for online learning is to make accessible free and appropriate high quality courses from accredited programs and learning opportunities to students throughout OR. To accomplish this, a statewide framework to make standards based coursework, software, online resources, student information, infrastructure, support systems and staff development available to all schools and teachers so that students and schools throughout the state can grow and benefit.

Establish a standard for courses

Make courses that meet the standard available to all students in the state.

Need to build efficiencies into our work. IE bend coming to other online providers.

Multiple providers through Bend-Lapine look

Districts need to be able to build on work that has already been done.

II. OEA

Oregon Education Association seems to be gathering information on exactly what online learning entails and how teachers are compensated.

III. OLI

Willamette ESD is reserved for 6/15-6/18.

Needs:

	Catering
	Logistics
	Directions:

Three strands: New, administrators, and repeaters

IV. Common Portal

Three projects:

	Voice over IP
	Technical examination of video network
	Web portal

Jim Rose asked for brainstormed contributions from OOL participants for suggestions. He stated he had about $45,000 to put toward this. Here is a list of what the group provided:

Student training, teacher training, parent training and support, vision keeper, listing V-tel courses with openings, reusable learning objects, communication tools, calendaring, registration, job postings, legislative report, coming events. The general consensus was that the participants did not want a duplication of already existing items.

V. Oregon Economic Business Forum

OOL was requested to produce another generic presentation in a vendor booth.

Occurs on May 4 and 5 at the Portland Convention Center. URL <growbusiness.com>

VI. OETC

E-classroom has approached both ODE and OETC offering a management system

VII. Next meeting is scheduled for April 8^th from 9 to noon in Studio A

GOOD of the order.

Camille shared a booklet “Any time, Any Place, Any Path, Any Pace; taking the lead on e-learning policy published by NASBE.

Next Meeting

April 8th