During the 2023-2024 academic year, the Office of eLearning accomplished the following:
 

• Conducted nearly 500 individual consultations with members of the Del Mar College community.

• Delivered over 600 countable hours of professional development training to DMC personnel.

• Published monthly ‘Director’s Message’ on the eLearning SharePoint site.

• Maintained the electronic document, Distance Education Faculty Handbook, ensuring updates and modifications to the living document were applied, in accordance with the expectations established by federal, state, and accrediting agencies.

• Created numerous resources, including:

  • Revised Getting Started with Canvas, a self-paced course, inclusive of ‘how-to’ and video updates to reflect the changes in the learning management system.

  • Developed and published the online professional development course, Regular and Substantive Interaction for Distance Education.

  • Updated the Basics of Universal Design and Accessibility online professional development course to include WCAG 2.1 updates.

  • Updated the Canvas Course Shell Templates

  • Updated the Alternate Assessments document

  • Produced the Oso Creek Library Infographic for Respondus Lockdown Browser

  • Produced the Canvas Discussions Redesign infographic

• Published four quarterly eLearning newsletters, Going the Distance.

• Membership and involvement in various DMC standing committees and councils

  • eLearning Advisory Committee

  • eLearning Ad Hoc Committee

  • Faculty Council

• Official Membership

  • DigiTex- Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas

  • OLC- Online Learning Consortium

  • THECB Learning Technology Advisory Committee (Director, Janet Kamps, served as co-chair)

  • TxDLA- Texas Distance Learning Association

  • Texas Out-of-State Community of Practice

  • USDLA- United States Distance Learning Association

  • WICHE WCET-SAN (State Authorization Network)

• Synchronous facilitation of the faculty professional development course, Designing and Teaching Online.

• The Director of eLearning, Janet Kamps served as a co-presenter for the ‘Digital Accessibility’ Workshop delivered at the spring 2024 TxDLA Conference.

• Instructional Designer, Dr. Bridgette Hardin delivered a presentation at the Texas Digital Learning Association's 2024 Conference.

• Served on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Course Sharing Pilot project.

• Served as the primary Canvas training/consulting office for Continuing Education/Workforce Education personnel teaching online courses in Canvas.

• Ongoing oversight of the following asynchronous courses:

  • Basics of Universal Design and Accessibility (BUDA)

  • Getting Started with Canvas (GSWC)

  • Hybrid Course Design (HYBRID)

  • Making Sense of Copyright (COPY)

  • Regular and Substantive Interaction for Distance Education (RSI)

  • Student Engagement (SE)

  • Respondus Lockdown Browser + Monitor (RLB).