Agenda Development and Minutes Space
AGENDA
Agenda Parking Lot
- Provide better definition of the roles and responsibilities of Accordiacs. See https://confab.mit.edu/confluence/display/ACCORD/Powers and Responsibilities.
- Provide better definition of the roles and responsibilities of ACCORD.
- Measure and assess the value of educational technology services at MIT
- define "core" services
- develop "dashboard" of monthly metrics? see attachment MIT OCW dashboard example
- develop strategies for more faculty engagement
- Identify and evaluate opportunities for new services
- Check-in on Video project. See https://confab.mit.edu/confluence/display/video/Home.
- Set agenda for June Accordiacs meeting
- Prep/planning for new academic year, e.g., website update/review, brochure reprinting/revision/distribution
- Solaris sunset and other Athena cluster updates planned for this summer
- debAthena (Athena 10) issues and opportunities
- Student printing discussion
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- Debrief from last week's Accordiac meeting
- "Value system" for core services criteria
- Budget for FY 2010
- Orientation planning for new academic year
July 6, 2009
- Update on Video project and feedback
- Budget for FY 2010
- Calendar confirmation for upcoming year
- Value system for core services criteria
MINUTES
April 27, 2009 - Minutes
Present: Babi, Cec, Steve, and Vijay
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- Criteria for Core Services
- We reviewed and attempted to refine Oliver's draft spreadsheet that arrayed core services against criteria. It's available for viewing as an attachment off the criteria for core services wiki page. We discussed what the right grading system to use, but did not come to a decision at this time.
- Agenda for Upcoming Accordiacs Meeting
- We discussed the possible topics - Stellar, CSS reorg, update on criteria for core services - and agreed that Steve would send out a preliminary note asking for feedback on additional topics to consider.
June 23, 2009 - Minutes
Present: Babi, Cec, Oliver, Steve, and Vijay
- We discussed the previous week's Accordiac meeting and agreed that it was successful, generating good questions and useful feedback. There was agreement that the agenda topics were useful and well received. Frequency and timing of Accordiac meetings for the new academic year was discussed and we agreed to try and two meetings during each semester and one during IAP.
- It was also suggested we try and schedule a meeting in early August to share orientation related plans. Steve agreed to identify dates and share them for comment with the rest of the group. Babi also agreed to talk to Doug Pfeiffer in the Provost's Office re new faculty orientation opportunities for ACCORD.
- We had a brief discussion re the ACCORD budget for next year. Babi agreed to provide details on our expenditures from this past year asap.