Oregon Online
Leaders

In attendance:  Mary Jean Sandall, Thor Prichard, JoAnn Rachor, Jim Rose, Dave Moore, Marty Karlin, Jennifer Arns, Kirk deFord, Bruce Russell, Steve Prull, Tina Mondale

 ·        Debrief the symposium

§         Disappointing turn out

§         Great discussion

§         Suggestion for a traveling road show to ITSC, NCCE, NECC

§         NSBA will recognize SKOnline

·        Mary Jean brought up the Guidance document for distance learning/VTel and the need to add online content to the ODE document

§         It was recommend that the discussion of today’s meeting would be the content to put in the document

§         Thor suggested to take the symposium questions and do an FAQ addressing the issues

§         Kirk shared the NETC web learning site

§         Final suggestion is to use it as a thinking point for today’s agenda

·        Review goals (set in December) and debrief the year

Ø      Create a student registration model for online instruction that will benefit the students in Oregon

·        OPEN's Portal takes you to the online school.  A target could be moving to the Site for registration via OPEN

·        We changed the goal from enrollment to student registration. A class you register in, a school you enroll in.

·        Continue for next year.

Ø      Provide training opportunities for all teachers to teach online or use online resources

·        Significant progress:

§         SOOS,  SKOnline, NWWebSchool are all doing training.

§         SOOS will be training state teachers next week.

·        Marty noted that OETC resource centers are positioned to provide training and support. Steve recommended putting a staff development piece on the OPEN Portal

·        Continue for next year.

Ø      Create a statewide dissemination model for training of site mentors and counselors and school support

·        Not much work has been done with this at this time

·        Bruce said this is a major goal he is working on

·        Continue for next year.

Ø      Create a joint marketing/PR plan for public school online learning

·        Dennis Dempsey and Mary Jean worked on this

·        The OPEN portal is a form of advertising

·        Not necessarily a need to continue with marketing the actual courses and teachers as the portal will do that. Market the concept of online education.

Ø      Create a central location for online content and resources available to all teachers; a central location for finished coursework; and a central student information system model

·        There are four or five really good content commercial vendors. Riverdeep, BoxerMath, BeyondBooks for OETC to look at. Thor suggested that emails of current pricing that online schools have and copies of contracts be sent to him.

·        Buying into a textbook system or creating our own?

·        For the future how are we going to handle this topic of content?

·        Not necessary to continue the central location for finished coursework.

·        SOOS is looking to make coursework available to Oregon teachers.

·        Continue for next year.

·        ODE is  working towards rolling out the student information system for the whole state

Ø      Create a cost infrastructure and delivery model that is common and consistent

·        Marty suggested considering a dollar amount for the tuition and fee structure as a goal for next year

Ø      Create a set of recommended policies and procedures for online learning

·        The design of the FAQ

·        The goal of gathering and pooling the policies to put somewhere and Kirk suggested NETC could possibly do this

·        The FAQs will be farmed out and sent to Kirk to synthesize the FAQ and the policies together on their website and written for ODE by the September board meeting:

o       The FAQs are operational from the online schools

o       The guiding questions used for the symposium

·        Continue for next year.

Ø      Create a set of guidelines (standards) for instruction, facilities, teachers, content

·        What standards are we talking about the standard for a course, the standards in a course tied to, so the word has been changed to guidelines and we will talk about this again at our next meeting. Reword this and continue for next year.

·        Report on current state of affairs of online schools

§         NWESD 300 students shooting for 1,000 this next year

§         SOOS has 28 courses and would open up slots in the fall training

§         OPEN wants to use the portal for staff development also

§         SKOnline served 1360 students.  Moving ahead in courses for other language learners. 60 classes in the fall, math, language arts and science.  Summer school starts July 1^st and costs $160. The serve other states and international.  They came in revenue neutral. Discovery Learning Charter School for 150 students.

§         OPEN is going to stress the portal, continuing with web based resources for students, and some of the services for the online schools

§         WESD is not a school, will not be…. But a Toolbox of resources and communicator both in region and out of region

§         Future of OOL and meetings 2002-03

Ø      August 20, 2002, 9:00am at WESD