Present: Breitenberger, Harder, Tuovinen, Cole, Somers, Horn
i. Has funds for redesigning lower-level courses
ii. Includes defining course objectives, thinking about different modes of delivering (including technology)
iii. Goal is to save instructional costs to free money for other departmental initiatives
i. Students take a learning styles survey and choose the method of learning that best fits them
ii. Institution had to have a team from the University in order to be accepted
iii. As a result of the changes, retention has dramatically improved and achievement has increased, repeating students have dropped by ½
i. OSU = founding member
ii. Randy on the national board
iii. Dennis Pearl is a redesign scholar (talks to people at other institutions about how to go through process)
iv. Seed funds available through OAA to redesign approximately 3 courses
v. Priority to be given to STEM fields
vi. Proposals should go through College office
vii. Randy will send the CFAT web info so members can look at all of the proposals and reports