University Senate IIT committee
05 february 2008 - GMCS 418

0. Meet Lisa Heiser, our newly appointed Staff Representative

1. When to have regular meeting for Spring 2008? [? 1st Tues 11am ? ]

2. Policy for Blended Learning Courses [James Frazee 24Jan08 email to Stewart]

3. Updates on campus network incidents [Felecia Vlahos, IT Security Office, 04feb08 NAC security meeting]

4. CSU Policy [Felecia Vlahos, IT Security Office email to Stewart]

5. fyi - AAUP Policy Documents www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/policydocs/

The entire table of contents of the AAUP's Policy Documents and Reports (the "Redbook") appears below. A selection of documents is available online by arrangement with Johns Hopkins University Press, which publishes the Redbook. Documents not available online may be requested from Nanette Crisologo.
( www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/policydocs/contents/default.htm)

text from james frazee - emaili 24Jan08 attachment 
[2007Mpv14_1stDraft_Senate_BL_policy.doc]:

DATE:    November 14, 2007

TO:      Kris Stewart, Chair
         University Senate Instructional & Information Technology Committee

FROM:    James P. Frazee, Director
        Instructional Technology Services

SUBJECT:        Blended / Hybrid Learning Course Designation

Instructional Technology Services is seeing growing interest in blended
learning at the department, college and institutional level here at SDSU.
Essentially, a blended or hybrid class is a course offering that relies on
both computer mediated and face-to-face contact as significant components of
communication between student and instructor, student and content, and among
students. In particular, a percentage of the student/faculty and
student/student contact time uses academic technology to structure remote
activities. The remaining communication is face-to-face, similar to a
traditional class. The increasing use of blended learning and hybrid courses
has prompted me to request that the University Senate consider creating a
policy for hybrid courses that requires faculty pursuing blended learning to:

"        Notify and receive approval from their Department Chair when pursuing
blended learning.
"        Designate a course for which more than 20% of contact time is accomplished
through computer-mediated instruction as "hybrid" in the class schedule.
"        Notify students of any unusual hardware or software requirements not
available to students on campus via the Student Computing Center.
"        Ensure that the course syllabus contains clear student learning outcome
statements tied to course grading / assessment.

Please let me know if we can add this to the agenda for our next meeting. 

Thank you.