University of Alaska
Distance Education

Steering Board Documents

Steering Board Meetings | Steering Board Reports | Organizing Memos | Background Documents and Studies

Steering Board Meetings

• Agenda for March 28-29 2005 Meeting (DOC)
• Session Report from March 28-29 Meeting (PDF)
• Agenda for November 2 Meeting (DOC)
• Session Report from November 2 meeting

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Steering Board Reports

• The First 45 Days (DOC)
• Recommendations for Increasing Statewide Services for the University of Alaska
  The report was prepared by PACDE members and Sally Johnstone of WCET. It studies how three universities moved from an informal to a more mature distance education organizational structure. This research serves as the background for a proposal by Sally Johnstone for a course of action for the University of Alaska.
  30 June 2004
• Unmet Student Services for Distance Students
  The report was prepared by Marjorie-Payton Hewlett. It helps identify areas of students services fordistance students that need improvement.
  August 2004
• Report to President Hamilton and SAC about PACDE activities
  The report describes PACDE projects and activities for the spring of 2004.
• March 2005 Summit: Communications Plan Group (900KB pdf)
• March 2005 Summit: Course Scheduling and Sequencing Group (1.1MB pdf)
• March 2005 Summit: Course Quality Assurance Group (1.6MB pdf)

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Organizing Memos

• Distance Education Directive from President Hamilton, plus Attachment
• President Hamilton's Letter Forming the President's Ad Hoc Committee on Distance Education
  Following the report by the SAC-appointed SWAT(StateWide Academic Team) team on distance education, President Hamilton asked SWAT members to continue their work as PACDE (President's Ad Hoc Committee on Distance Education). This letter forms the committee and outlines some of its major goals.
  24 November 2003
• Report: SWAT Team's Recommmendations for Distance Education
  SWAT (StateWide Academic Team) was formed by the SAC to assess the Distance Education White Paper and recommend future courses of action for distance education at UA. This report was in response to that request.
  23 October 2003

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Background Documents and Studies

• Spporting Students at a Distance
  Draft proposal for student service issues related to distance education. Written in 2004.
• CDE Rubric (PDF)
• Standards/Guidelines for distance education, as approved by several committees at UAA.
• Western Illinois Education Consortium Student Services Agreement (PDF)
• Western Illinois Education Consortium Essential Student Support Services Agreement (PDF)
• Hello, Out There: A Look at Distance Education in Alaska (PDF)
• Standardizing Policy & Practice in the UA Distance Learning System (PDF)
• Evaluation Committee Report on Distance Education at UAS (PDF)
• Distance Education Recommendations (Jan 2000) to the President (PDF)
• Allocation of Tuition/Fees for Inter-MAU Instruction (PDF)
• SAC's Vision and Mission Statement for UA's Virtual Campus
  13 November 2002
• SAC's list of "Questions for Distance Education Developers"
  The SAC developed criteria for funding distance education efforts in the form of a series of questions.
  13 November 2002
• The Annotated Distance Education White Paper
  The Distance Education White Paper was originally developed by Elaine Sunde in 1998 (?) and has served as the basis for much of SAC's discussion about distance education at UA since. The "annotated" version includes comments about the status of goals and projects found in the paper.
  3 November 2002
• Case Study of Distance Education at UAS by Lynne Schrum and Jason Ohler (PDF version)
  Through a President's Professor endowment, Dr. Lynne Schrum was hired to work jointly with Jason Ohler (UAS) to conduct a study of attitudes toward distance education at UAS of staff, students and faculty. The full report and executive summary are available (PDF version).
  2002-2003
• Report: Results of the UNAC Labor-Management Committee on Distance Education
  As per the negotiated faculty contract in 2000, a group was formed to study a number of issues of importance to both faculty and administration related to distance education. This is their final report.
  18 April 2002
• UAS Strategic Plan, Initiative 8: "Be a center of excellence for distance-delivered certificate and degree programs"
  UAS, under the direction of the Board of Regents, was required to develop a strategic plan to guide its developoment during 2000-2010. Eight initiatives were developed, one of which addressed the role of distance education in UAS's future. (Download Initiative 8 only)
  2000
• Six Pillars of Distance Education
  The purpose of the framework was to provide a dynamic and entrepreneurial contextand environment that valued, encouraged, supported distance education within the College of Rural Alaska and the University of Alaska System. The overarching vision was to establish an entity (within the College of Rural Alaska and in partnership with the CRA/UAF Center for Distance Education) and location that would facilitate and enrich all activities related to distance education.
  1999
• ADETC Annual Report 2004 (PDF)

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