The mission of Technology Mediated Instruction (TMI) is to encourage the appropriate use of educational technology by faculty, both within the classroom and in DE modalities, to promote student success and enhance access in accordance with the college�s mission and values.
TMI supports all the District�s instructional programs in the use of the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). This includes enhancing traditional courses with online resources, as well as DE through online courses. TMI is a vital component in the student learning process in its efforts to increase the number and quality of DE offerings and the use of technology in and beyond the classroom. TMI provides comprehensive faculty training the use of the LMS and corresponding Supplemental Tools. TMI also encourages peer mentoring among faculty, and holds monthly and annual campus events focused on the sharing of best practices in the use of educational technologies. TMI offers support to faculty and administration, and specifically the Distance Education Committee (DEC) and Academic Technology Committee (ATC), in helping to promote best practices for achieving student success. TMI implements its program through giving dozens of workshops each semester, geared toward helping participants not only understand the use of the LMS, but also guide them in choosing the appropriate tool for each task being undertaken. In addition, TMI staff meet and hold consultations with individual faculty to ensure that the use of the LMS meet Butte College, State and Federal standards (e.g FERPA, ADA Sec. 508, etc.).
TMI conducts an annual unit plan which serves as its Program Review.
Strategy 1 - Continue to provide LMS training for faculty
Provide traditional and online faculty training sessions, in order to respond to the asynchronous & synchronous needs of instructors use of the District's Learning Management System (LMS), including:
Effectivley trained faculty can best use the school's LMS to ensure course content delivery that encourages student success.
Strategy 2 - Support the use of online course design rubric and standards
Continue to collaborate with the Distance Learning Committee in encouraging the District's online course design rubric and standards (used to review online and hybrid courses) as faculty/designers are now responsible for showing evidence that each criterion has been satisfied.
Documentation of online course reviews will align with the "culture of evidence" mandated by accrediting standards and will encourage faculty/designers to become more actively involved in the review process from start to finish.
Strategy 3 - Continual evaluation of new educational technologies
TMI will continue to facilitate reviews of new educational technologies related to the LMS, by collaborating with the Senate's Academic Technology Committee, and other groups, to set up campus demonstrations and initiate campus-wide discussions.
This strategy helps implement decision-making regarding the review, consideration, and adoption of new technologies for the LMS, and helps ensure a consistent, campus-wide response involving all relevant stakeholders; ultimately students benefit.
Strategy 4 - Professional development opportunities
TMI staff will continue to pursue opportunities for professional development, including conference attendance and memberships in professional organizations, in the area of educational technology.
TMI staff need to stay abreast of changing industry trends in the area of the LMS, online collaboration, video conferencing, and other educational technologies.
Strategy 5 - Support the district's goals for Distance Education
Priority 1.E.4 for the District's Strategic Direction is "Offering more coherent and robust distance education"
TMI staff and the Distance Education Coordinator will coordinate with the DE Dean and VPI to help meet the district goals for DE courses.
New DE courses must pass the review process prior to being scheduled. This process helps ensure quality courses at Butte. The review team coordinates with the DE Committee and administration to ensure that the review process meets the needs of the district.
CVC-OEI Grant, CCCCO Online Course Development Grant
| Original Priority | Program, Unit, Area | Resource Type | Account Number | Object Code | One Time Augment | Ongoing Augment |
| Description | Supporting Rationale | Potential Alternative Funding Sources | Prioritization Criteria | |||
| 1 | TMI / Distance Education | Operating Expenses | $0.00 | $31,800.00 | ||
| Software Subscriptions (Canvas Integrations) | Essential software licenses that are critical components of the institution's commitment to provide both equitable and quality instruction/student services for all course modalities, while supporting health and safety. Critical for maintaining strategic growth in the competitive DE market. Some items are renewals in multi-year contracts. 1. Canvas Studio: Video Management & Captioning ($9,500) NOT NEEDED FOR 2022-23, funded by CCCCO 2. Unicheck: Plagiarism detection for Canvas ($12,000) 3. CourseEval HQ: SFF's via Canvas ($1,200) 4. Adjust-All HQ: Date utility for Canvas ($3,500) 5. Camtasia/Snagit: Video tools ($3,500) 6. ProHelp: Integrated Canvas support ($1,600) 7. WordPress Integrations ($500) |
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| 2 | TMI / Distance Education | Personnel | $0.00 | $20,000.00 | ||
| Increase reasign time for DE Coordinator from 25% to 50% | The responsibilities of the DE Coordinator as listed in the contract require over 20 hours per week. This includes course reviews; meeting with faculty and chairs; development of trainings; attending and presenting at statewide webinars and conferences; implementing plans for improving Distance Education at Butte, and attending meetings with TMI, the DEC, the ATC, the Tech Council, CVC-OEI, DECO, and others. Additionally this role is tasked with ensuring compliance with state and federal codes which require both careful scrutiny of our courses as well as attending trainings to ensure I have the necessary information. And, the district needs to develop a local Peer Online Course Review Process. This additional task will require a large input of time and energy. |
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| 3 | TMI, DE | Operating Expenses | $35,000.00 | $20,000.00 | ||
| Online Course Alignment to meet CCC system standards | California Community college must establish a Local Peer Online Course Review (POCR) process in order to continue receive CVC-OEI Consortium benefits at reduced charge. Without this state-wide support, the cost to the district will be $125,000. Funding will be used to develop the process as well as to implement training and compensation for reviewers and instructors. The cost estimate is based on a pilot of 30 course approvals. This will help us meet our goal for aligning 20% of our online courses (another requirement of the support). In addition to meeting the requirements for Consortium membership, the POCR process is an exceptional professional development opportunity for faculty. And state-wide data shows that classes that have gone through the POCR process have increased success and retention. Individual departments that are interested in being part of our pilot local POCR process have put this augmentation in their individual unit plans as well. |
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