Distance Challenges

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UAA - MatSu (Sheri)

• Bandwidth Issues
• Training fof students and faculty
• Getting info to new students taking online classes. Suggest organizing orientations

UAF - Chuckchi (Susan)

• Getting technology ready to go before classes start

UAF - Northwest (Joe)

• Support from all over UA is critical for successful classes

UAS - Juneau (Marsha)

• 55 courses have added Webmeeting (Elluminate). Faculty are learning how to use it and solving problems as they arise.

UAF (Bob)

• Taught a class with another instructor in Anchorage. Barriers between MAU permissons caused hiccups.
• Try to implement graduate certificates.
• Web-based pedagogy for engineering difficult

PWS (Doug)

• Service area 44,000sqmi - bandwidth is an issue
• Having difficulty engaging/generating interest among instructors to teach distance classes.

Kodiak (Margie)

• Bandwidth issue as well - groups getting bumped from connections
• Having each village faculty member representative adopt the responsibility to listening to interest for classes

Ketchikan (Cathy)

• Early adoter faculty looking for addition support for new things they want to try. New interest in teaching by distance and looking at distance delivered classes to improve numbers
• Providing resources to instructors to deliver quality distance courses

TVC (Steve)

• Some programs have the intention to be delivered online. The intention and reality are different, and are currently working on this step-by-step.
• The issue of sharing courses seems to be confusing

UAF - Cooperative Extension (Bill)

• Working with workshops and faculty are used to doing these by distance. Trying to get more interest in delivering by distance (there is a need for adopting distance technologies or getting some training for faculty).
• How can extention be the first point of contact for the public to the UA system?

UAA (Kate)

• Struggling with organizing distance education. New provost looking to tackle issues of distance ed in the coming months.
• Online instructors want a student evaluation form in an online format.
• Need for course information to feed into military CTAM system
• Campus not prepared yet to support student issues on Elive
• New position to coordinate training for faculty and staff filled - waiting to see how that goes

UAF - IAC (Holly)

• Six centers servicing a large area and experience connectivity issues. Getting student access to resources at other campuses an issue.
• Training staff on new technologies

UAS - Sitka (Susie)

• Student connectivity issues - controling academic traffic versus recreational traffic on the web
• Students not prepared with the equipment for distance (elive) classes and campus having difficulty filling the needs everyone has with the resources on campus.
• Educating and orienting online students
• Need to boost enrollments
• Limited instructional design resources

UAF - Kuskokwim - (Heidi)

• Bandwidth issues
• Finding places for students to take Elive courses
• Networking security
• Faculty support and motivation
• Need info from all over the UA system before classes start
• Need for more IT staffing and instructional design

UAF - Bristol Bay (Victor)

• Getting faculty to switch from audio to more applicable tools
• Student training in basic technology skills
• Getting info to students on where to get help
• What are the standards for student contact for distance courses?
• Support infrastructure for students and faculty