Course Offering Recommendations
More students are ready (in terms of basic online skills) in higher division courses. Should we recommend to the department to offer higher division online classes?
Which courses would be appropriate for 100% online vs. hybrid format?
What steps would need to be taken to provide more online offerings for these courses?
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Full Coll Retention/Success Stats
Carol Matson, (Academic Services Dean) who is heading up the D.E. Advisory Committee, was kind enough to locate and forward the stats on retention and success for our campus, which begin in 2001 (attached). Use the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet to toggle to D.E. courses.
She warned me that the numbers are not impressive (they aren’t), but perhaps they are a place to start. I’m not sure how effective they would be in providing our recommendations to the Department – I would love to see comparisons between hybrid and fully DE courses, or between morning vs evening/weekend DE offerings, but I’ll take whatever we can get!
Let me know what you can make out of these numbers – any insights?
Carol also mentioned that there is a new retention study being proposed and will provide more info when she has it.
Thanks!
Elli
Suggestions from the meeting
Just to repeat what was suggested at our last in-person meeting, we're leaning toward advocating this:
Hybrid courses should be offered evenings and weekends primarily. This is because the typical student who enrolls in hybrid classes is working during the day or still wants to come to campus (i.e., doesn't want a fully online class). Anecdotally, hybrid classes during the day don't fill up as quickly as evening/weekend classes.
Higher-division courses, particularly content-driven courses like literature, can be offered online. Our reasoning is that these more advanced students are more prepared to negotiate the online learning environment.