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Volume 4 Issue 2March 2001

Palomar College Awarded e-Conferencing Grant

e-Conferencing Staff
Palomar College

E-Conferencing (audio/data collaboration) now allows us to integrate voice conferencing, data conferencing, and meeting management for real-time collaborative communications. It gives us the ability to talk and share the content on one’s computer with multiple people and sites, from whatever access point you choose, simultaneously and in real-time.

In a move to provide additional tools to further foster collaboration among faculty, staff, and students, the California Community College Chancellor’s office has selected Palomar College to implement the $11.5 million e-Conferencing grant. The grant proposal from Palomar College was selected in a competitive process by a panel of readers from the field.

One of the main objectives of the Technology I plan (1996–2000) was to interconnect all public community colleges for data, video, and digital satellite capabilities. It has become apparent that there is a need to provide additional tools to encourage collaboration among faculty, staff and students of the California Community Colleges (CCC) system. e-Conferencing will expand the collaboration services envisioned in Technology I by using the readily available technologies of the telephone and personal computer.

e-Conferencing will allow larger -numbers of faculty, staff, and student groups to easily connect, effectively exchange knowledge and information, and facilitate virtual collaboration in the areas of student services, shared governance, and other collaborative activities anywhere, anytime. using a toll-free telephone number for access, financial obstacles will be decreased.

e-Conferencing will enable faculty, students, and staff to:

• Schedule and attend meetings;
• Share, discuss and edit documents in real-time;
• Record and access meeting content for a later date;
• Provide access to automated questions and answers sessions;
• Enable notification and distribution of meeting materials via fax; and
• Provide security and control

e-Conferencing will enable a range of communications — far broader than just plain-vanilla staff meetings. Examples of e-Conferencing applications could include briefings, Web-based seminars and workshops, instruction, collaborative workgroup meetings; proposal development; document collaboration and editing ability; project meetings by team members and project updates to California Community College (CCC) systems.

The e-Conferencing Project is headed by Sherilyn Hargraves, the CCCSAT Project Director and Educational Television Manager.