PROJECT EAGLE I, "online learning project"

TIMELINE/SEQUENCE OF ACTIVITIES

Year 1. During Year 1, the focus will be on bringing in the personnel, purchasing the equipment and "hitting the ground running" in terms of program development and program offerings both for workforce and upper division courses. As noted earlier, it is anticipated that the first group (up to 40) courses will have gone through the needs assessment, development and implementation cycle. Formative and summative evaluation will occur during Year 1, as in all years of the grant. Appropriate advisory committees and panels will be formed. Special focus in Year 1 will be on equipping the SP/G and CL Campuses and Centers to be ready to serve as a County network of "touch down" zones as new electronic offerings are created and offered. An ethics telecourse, identified as an institutional priority, will also be prepared in Year 1. Temporary space will be acquired until the College University Center can be constructed (with funds outside the FIPSE Grant).

Year 2. Program needs assessment and development will continue during Year 2 -- with at least another 40 courses completed. Evaluation will continue and the College will begin to disseminate results of project activities. A primary focus in Year 2 will be the purchase of equipment for the new College-University Center complex scheduled to open around July 1, 2001 and for the Health Education Center and Tarpon Springs sites. Equipment required to strengthen the distribution system and access to programs will be purchased for other College sites as well.

Year 3. SPC will be well into the implementation of new programs and system during Year 3. Evaluation exercises will have lead to program modifications and systems enhancements to more directly promote student success. The development of a complete integrated, web-based student support system will be completed by the end of Year 3. College officials will work with FIPSE and other national educational and technology organizations to share findings and solutions.

Year 4. During the final year of the grant, the last of the grant-supported courses and/or programs will be developed. Given the rapid pace of technological change (and identification of curriculum mix to match it), there is an expectation that new, perhaps currently unknown course programs will be in the mix for development the final year. These programs are liable to be "niche market" opportunities -- the A.A. on-line, business track, and the specialized certificates identified in earlier sections of this proposal having been completed in Years 1-3. A key focus in Year 4 will be the final evaluation dissemination reports, and plan for integrating continuing components of the model into the on-going College plans and operations.