FIRST 5 ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA

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FIRST 5 ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA

• Technical Assistance Committee Meeting
• with
• Lois Phillips, Facilitator

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AGENDA

• Review the options in Distance Learning
• Review the training and development needs based
  on survey (staff and administrators)
• Agree on criteria for success (review the list
  proposed for discussion purposes)
• What's the worst thing that could happen using
  distance learning? The best?
• Whom would we include in our Talent Bank?
  (Professional trainers, practitioners,
  award-winning existing programs, etc.)
•  What are our priority-goals? What are the
  obstacles?
• Recommendations and next steps? Brainstorming
•  

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DISTANCE LEARNING OPTIONS

• Teleconferencing (sound only televised small
  groups)
•          Televised lecture with on-site
•          Facilitators    
•          Online training (streaming media
  bulletin boards etc.)

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FEES

• Vary from campus to campus
• CCCOC can provide discounts if you link with ECE
  Degree Programs
• Depend on the complexity of what you want and
  range of services required
• Least expensive is to
• Identify speaker (or taped program) and audience,
  design curriculum, provide PowerPoint materials
  and train facilitators in advance
• Identify need for distribution path (statewide?)
• Send query letter out to negotiate and contract
  for services

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Community College TechnologyMaking Meetings
Work Teleconferencing

• CCC Confer- hosted by CCC Confer Client Services
  - is an exciting new service designed to create
  an efficient time and money-saving method to hold
  meetings throughout the California Community
  colleges system.
• Combination Live Online Training provides a
  professional development training opportunity for
  faculty, staff and administrators from across the
  CCC system.
• CCC Confer Meetings are as simple as using a
  telephone and a computer. It's easy, it's free,
  and it works!
• You will be trained to use CCC Confer as a
  Participant and Presenter. Learn from your desk
  using your computer and a telephone as you are
  guided through an interactive training session
• Trainings Tuesdays Wednesday at
  900amThursdays at 100pm
• http//www.cccconfer.org/training/ComboTrainingIn
  dex.html

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Cal State University Benefits

• 1. The power of a coordinated, 23 campus system
  with true state-wide coverage. 
• Many of our campuses have off-campus "centers"
  with fibre backbones. 
• our Extended Education unit at CSU San
  Bernardino has an off-campus center in Palm
  Desert,
• our San Diego (SDSU) campus has an off-campus
  center in the Imperial Valley
• coverage for additional remote locations is also
  possible.  
• 2. The proven ability to design and/or adapt
  curricula and training opportunities for large
  and small audiences. 
• Extended Education units in the CSU have the
  ability to design certificate programs, credit
  and non-credit courses (including CEU activities)
  and credit degree programs. 
• 3.The ability to design and manage an
  efficient student records system. 
• Can design learning programs,
• Has excellent data retrieval capacities for
  managing CEU's for professional audiences.  
• 4. The proven ability to work with grants,
  contracts, and state and federal fund sources. 
• Extended Education units are regularly involved
  in co-administering RFP's and other
  fund-solicitations. 
• The campuses have proven to be good stewards of
  funding from grants and contracts.   

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CSU OPTIONS, Videostreaming and Internet
Accessible Materials

• An example of the videostreaming technology can
  be found http//rce.csuchico.edu/online/demo.asp
  
• Visiting the website will give you an idea of how
  the content can be organized
• Web developers can track who accesses the content
  and when

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CSU OPTIONS, Two-way Videoconferencing

• The CSU system can link
• all 23 campuses together for a single meeting
• a combination of CSUs and community colleges
• Scheduling is best on Friday afternoons or
  off-peak academic days
• CSU two-way video rooms usually rent for 150 per
  hour per site.
• A three hour videoconference with 23 sites would
  cost 10350 plus coordination and overhead costs.
  

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CSU OPTIONS, Satellite Teleconferencing

• Teleconferencing can be a very cost effective way
  to disseminate information to geographically
  dispersed audiences.
• Satellite signals can be sent to
• county school offices.
• Community colleges
• CSU campuses
• CSU, Chico over the past 20 years has uplinked
  over 100 specialty programs including in-service
  training for teachers, health-care providers and
  hazardous waste professionals.
• A satellite transmission could reach hundreds of
  sites in California.
• The program could be recorded and the videotapes
  distributed to appropriate agencies.

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CCCOC CSU RESOURCE PEOPLE Technical Experts
Executives

• CSU
• Edward McAleer, mcaleer_at_calstate.edu,
  Chancellors Office 562-951-4795
• Deborah Borger, Dean CSU Chico
• Jeff Layne, JLayne_at_csuchico.edu
• CCCOC
• LeBaron Woodyard, Dean Chancellors Office,
  Director of Technology [phone]
• Michele Taramsco, Continuing Education and Staff
  Development, Palomar College [phone]
• Ken Nather [phone]

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Distance Education Associations

• .
• California Community Colleges
• http//www.cccco.edu/divisions/esed/aa_ir/disted.h
  tm
• Western Cooperative for Educational
  Telecommunications
• http//www.wcet.info/
• The Sloan Consortium
• http//www.aln.org/
• California Health Network
• http//www.cccnext.net/nhn/NHN-Affiliate-Profile-R
  ev.htm

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RECOMMENDATIONS

• Decide what you want to do e.g.
• Best practices (raise the bar where needed to
  standardize)
• Showcase outstanding speaker(s) and First 5
  Leaders
• Communicate new policy or mandate
• Other?
• Decide how to best provide training and
  education
• Link to ECE Departments statewide to get best
  fees
• Utilize existing 4cnet digital technology
  partnership between CCCOC, CSU, UC
• Develop a map for ongoing or occasional, ad hoc
  training
• Have Association identify / hire Point Person to
  plan and coordinate Training and Education
• Name it e.g. Children and Families Practitioner
  University
• Reward people e.g., award CEUs, certificates,
  or credits

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EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH 10,000

• FEEDBACK ON FED VOC TECH PLAN
• Needed public input in public arena
• Sacramento City College Dean took content
• Client provided panel of experts and did PR
• Phone bank for incoming calls from sites
• Live community members in audience
• Computers for receiving questions via a unique
  e-mail address