3035 Center Green Drive, Suite 200
Boulder, CO 80301-2204
NANSLO LEADERSHIP TEAM
Rhonda Epper Colorado Community College System, Dan BrananColorado Community College System, Paul Bennett Colorado Community College System, Pat Shea WICHE, Sue Schmidt WICHE, David Porter BCcampus, Mary Burgess BCcampus, Lisa Domae North Island College,
Albert Balbon North Island College, Kevin Walters North Island College
NANSLO Leadership Team Meeting Notes
April 10, 2013, 1 pm – 2 pm MDT
Participants: Dan Branan, PJ Bennett, Carrianna Cordileone, Rhonda Epper, Kevin Walters, Albert Balbon, Maria Fieth,
Mary Burgess, Heather McKay (Rutgers), Sue Schmidt
Additions/Changes to April 10 notes? None
NANSLO Lab/CCCS
Dan discussed the continuing lab activities for CCC Online
Lab is continuing activities for CCConline – there are two experiments scheduled for this week – experiments are going well
Experiments are scheduled throughout semester rather than just at a certain point in the semester – microscopy experiment may create a bottleneck in future as that one experiment typically occurs at the first of the semester
NANSLO is continuing its efforts to modularize the programs in LabView so experiments are as portable as possible
PJ and Dan went to programming class
Montana site will be moving along soon – lab staff not hired yet but should be in place soon
Dan is meeting with consultants to set up new IT infrastructure at new location at Red Rocks and is securing quotes for hardware, software and assistance
NANSLO Denver is losing all lab technicians and in process of hiring new ones for summer
Dan has started ordering equipment for new grant without additional approvals or IT
Rhonda is working on MOU to set up lab at Red Rocks.
NANSLO lab is targeting summer to fall for move to Red Rocks
North Island Update:
North Island College
Albert and Kevin reported the visit from Tony Bates was very successful. He is coming out with another paper in addition to blog – will send to them first – got a nice note from him
Found out biology dept would like to use microscopes for summer and fall classes at different campuses – faculty will be using the RWSL remotely to show students how to use the equipment before going into the lab at their campus to complete lab experiments. This allows faculty to show groups of students without having them try to see it around a microscope in the lab.
Mary from BCcampus visited North Island in April to see lab
Albert noted that they are waiting for the CHEO contract to be signed before ordering equipment and creating code for robotics – Maria noted they are finalizing but having conversation around tax issues
Albert is working on another lab for BCcampus in the physics area – labs are for Tak and Ron experimenting in quantum mechanics – problem getting right siloscope
BCcampus
Mary had a good look at lab and chatted with Tony – saw things in action and talked strategy with North Island.
The open text A&P will be ready sometime this month – might want to look at it and also have a biology and physics open textbooks – Open Stack developed these open textbooks funded through Rice – plan on developing 20 – mostly in the STEM area. Cost is $500,000 per text – high quality resources.
These textbooks will be used in the BCcampus project. BCcampus has asked faculty to review by end of summer.
Conferences and workshops
WCET presentation – panel discussion with Dan, Kate and Tak at WCET later this year
Sue to send out information on STEMtech conference – NANSLO may want to send in a proposal to present at this conference – proposal due at end of May
Sue requested that conference information be sent to her so it can be posted on the NANSLO website
CHEO
Sue is finalizing the preliminary agenda for the June 13-14 workshop – plan to send out to eight CHEO project leads by May 1
Speakers all lined up and ready to present:
Rhonda Epper and Pat Shea
Susan Mircovich
Richie Boyd
Paul Stacy
Heather McKay
NANSLO faculty experts will facilitate breakout sessions
Dan Branan and Albert Balbon
Farah Bennani, Hilton Chan, Farnosh Family and Kate Lormand, Susan Mircovich and Ritchie Boyd (Facilitators for breakout sessions)
There is a block of 24 rooms available until May 15. Still working through logistics with hotel on any potential rooms for Friday for those needing to stay an extra day.
Sue reported that she has only received 5 out of the 8 surveys sent to the schools. Pueblo, Otero and Red Rock have not responded
Maria mentioned they they are hesitant to send in information due to the fact that they are still in the process of hiring new faculty
Rhonda asked that contacts for the three who have not responded be sent to her for follow up
NANSLO and CHEO one-pagers – Sue mentioned that if any errors are found to please let her know so that she can fix them.
Conferences
STEMtech conference in Atlanta, GA
October 27-30 – League of Innovations
May 4 deadline for proposals – Sue will send into out to group
Heather McKay - Rutgers
Heather will begin working soon on data collection
Heather will work closely with Maria and Jeremy on data needs Maria and Jeremy
Iimportant pieces are qualitative pieces – work being done, building labs, benefits –
Heather at first will be participating in calls
In future, she will do more in depth interviews on CHEO activities and will do a presentation on what CHEO participants can expect over next couple of years
Heather suggested anyone having questions give her a call or contact her via email
Her work is not an evaluation that is punitive but a process evaluation so that others can learn from what CHEO is doing
Heather suggested she send out to the group the goals for evaluation
Rhonda asked if Heather could use NANSLO NGLC evaluation from Inverness research so could build on that work.
Rhonda suggested that there be a conversation about what might be a good plan for using this process? Should we schedule another call and review prior materials?
Rhonda suggested that a two or three page memo be put together on what has been done and where we want to go.
Discuss this further on a call toward the end of May.
After call, would summarize thoughts and send out for suggestions.
Closing
There were no questions poised at end of meeting.
If you have any updates or agenda items for the May 8 meeting, please send to Sue.
Action Items
Send the notes from the April 10th call – Completed 4/24 and asked for verification of receipt
Send Game Changers article to Maria Fieth and Heather McKay – Completed 4/24
Send NANSLO website, NANSLO Wiki site and Meeting Requests to Heather McKay – Completed 4/24 – also sent info to Maria Fieth
Add Heather McKay and Maria Fieth to Leadership List. – Completed 4/24
Send contacts and survey documents to Rhonda Epper for her follow up with PCC, Red Rocks and Otero – Completed 4/24
Mary Burgess to send links to open textbooks – Completed on 4/24Here are the links to the open textbooks I mentioned: Biology: http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/biology/get Physics: http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics (Takashi Seto, who you met in Vancouver, will be using this text in his course in September) A&P: http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/anatomy-and-physiology/get (this one is not yet complete, but I understand it will be ready sometime in April or May).
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