Stanislaus COE Online Learning Survey for SCOE School Districts

The Stanislaus County Office of Education in partnership with CTAP Region 6 is establishing the Online Learning Network for the 2011-12 school year. This is in response to requests from districts to further all of our knowledge about online learning. Completing this Needs Assessment should take about 10-15 minutes and will help us to know how to best structure the Online Learning Network for the school year.

Please complete this online survey by *** Mon. Sept. 12, 2011 ***

**DEFINITIONS** For the purposes of this Needs Assessment, the following definitions are being used:

*ONLINE LEARNING*: is a course that is taught with content that is more than 75% online, where the teacher is delivering the majority of the curriculum to students from a distance, and students are completing most course work online.

*BLENDED LEARNING*: is a course that blends online and face-to-face delivery where a substantial proportion (30% to 79%) of the content is delivered online. Some coursework and teaching takes place in a face-to-face classroom and some coursework and teaching takes place online. (Allen & Seaman, 2007. Sloan Consortium)

Note: The definitions of Online learning or blended learning would not include a teacher who uses a website for a lesson, posts lesson plans on the web, keeps a blog, or emails with students and parents.

Name: 


  1. Name of District


  1. Title of Person Completing this Survey


  1. Contact Person Phone


  1. Contact Person Email


  1. Is your district (or any school in your district) operating any type of online or blended learning course or program right now? (see definitions above.)

    ** If you answer YES to this question, then skip to Question #9
    Yes
    No



  1. Does your district have any plans to develop any type of online learning courses or program in the future? (credit recovery, online courses, blended courses, advanced placement, online charter)?
    Yes, in the next year
    Yes, in the next 2-5 years
    No, we have no plans to develop online courses in the next 5 years


  1. Some of the reasons our district has not yet developed plans for online learning courses or program include (select all that apply):
    Lack of interest in our school community
    Lack of interest among teachers
    Lack of experience or knowledge to develop and implement an online learning program
    Union/teacher contract concerns
    Cost
    Other


  1. Any other information you'd like to share in response to questions 9 or 10 from your district?

    **Please skip to Question #21**



  1. How long has your district or school in your district been operating online learning courses or program?
    1 year or less
    2-3 years
    More than 3 years


  1. What types of students are targeted by your online learning courses or program?
    Any student
    Credit recovery students (students who have failed previous courses)
    Accelerated students (students taking courses to get ahead in credits)
    Advanced placement students
    Students at a certain grade level
    Other


  1. For which grade levels does your district offer online/blended courses? (select all that apply)
    K-6
    7-8
    9-12


  1. During the 2010-11 school year, please estimate how many students took an online course in your district (One student taking one course for one semester = 1. If 20 students took an online course in semester 1 and 33 students took an online course in semester 2, the total would be 53.)


  1. How many teachers in your district taught an online course during the 2010-11 school year?


  1. Please identify the course management system used (e.g. Moodle, Blackboard, Haiku, or Vendor name. For example, if you are using a system like Education 2020 or Plato, your answer would be the vendor name for this question.).


  1. Please identify where your course content comes from (e.g. self developed or vendor name or combination of sources).


  1. Who teaches your online courses?
    District teachers
    Teachers from the vendor we are using for our online courses
    Part time teachers
    District teachers facilitate the computer generated content from the vendor


  1. Our district has a long-term plan for online learning courses in our district (for at least the next 3 years)
    Yes
    No, but we are working on it
    No, and we could use some help in organizing one


  1. Our district has identified ongoing funding to sustain the online learning program for at least the next three years.
    Yes
    No


  1. If you answered Yes to the plan for funding, please identify the source(s) of funds for your online program? (e.g. grant, EETT grant, Title funds, general funds, or some combination, etc.) Note: If you have an administrator overseeing the program that has other jobs, consider the funds used for this salary in answering this question.


  1. Is the online learning program meeting the goals originally established when the online learning courses/program began? (select all that apply)
    Yes, it is meeting the needs of the students being served
    No, the program is not meeting the original goals established
    The online learning program is working for some students, but not others.
    We hope to expand the program in the future and meet the needs of more students.


  1. If you were to rate your district’s knowledge and experience with online or blended learning on a 10-point scale, what would be your self-rating?
     
      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  
    1 - Little Experience  10 - Very Experienced


  1. The type of support our district would appreciate regarding online/blended learning would be (select all that apply):
    Ongoing planning and support for a long-range funding and implementation plan
    Professional Development for Online Teachers or Training for online teachers
    Guidance in selection of course management system and online course content
    Development of county wide online program for use by all districts
    Other:


  1. Any other comments/suggestions/ideas regarding support for online/blended learning programs in Stanislaus County? (Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey! We will share the results at the first Online Learning Network meeting on October 20)