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Volume 3 Issue 8September 1999

TMAPP Projects: 1999-2000

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Digital Signature Feasibility Study

Recipient: San Joaquin Delta CCD
Request for Application Specifications
Application Identification Number: 98-0664
Program Unit: Educational Services and Economic Development
Funding Category: Student Support Services
Funding Period: June 29, 1999 through June 30, 2000
Maximum Funds Available: $50,000
Number of Awards: One

Purposes/Uses of the Funds
Digital Signatures will dramatically alter the way the world communicates. Essentially, this technology will allow us to conduct legally binding paperless communication. Almost any transaction that requires a signature can be replicated electronically with the inclusion of digital signature technology. Some California Community College Districts are already using Internet based applications. However, signatures are still being provided on paper. For example, an application may be signed by the applicant and mailed to the college to be matched with an electronic document.

This project seeks to fund a feasibility study to assess the different methods and technologies involved in digital signatures, current best practices, the costs and the pros and cons of the particular technologies. Once the appropriate technology is identified, recommendations need to be developed on how this could be offered for use systemwide.

The project should determine that the systemwide solution is applicable to a wide variety of office productivity applications. For example, it would be helpful to have a single solution that allowed the system or college to authenticate for access to secure web content, certify that a computer program was safe to run, digitally sign a document, sign e-mail messages, encrypt e-mail messages or enclosures, take exams for distance education courses, etc.

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Comprehensive Statewide Community College Distance Education Delivery Models Feasibility Study

Recipient: Santa Barbara CCD
Request for Application Specifications
Application Identification Number: 98-0665
Program Unit: Educational Services and Economic Development
Funding Category: Distance Education
Funding Period: June 29, 1999 through June 30, 2000
Maximum Funds Available: $200,000
Number of Awards: One

Purpose/Use of the Funds
This project would study various comprehensive distance education delivery models for the purpose of examining possible changes in post-secondary education that would make education more cost effective and learner-centered. This project will look into several policy areas that have been identified as having significant interaction with distance education. The areas of investigation will include quality, student and academic support services, decision-making structures, mission, program approval, infrastructure, and financial aid.

This project would expand and enhance the California Community Colleges participation with the California Virtual University, and facilitate the level and quality of participation by California Community Colleges in distance learning. This project will look into the use of the 4CNet, the statewide telecommunications and technology infrastructure created as a result of the Telecommunications and Technology Infrastructure Program (TTIP), for purposes of delivering a comprehensive series of distributed course delivery mechanisms and distributed educational and student support services.

The study would review existing federal and state statutes and regulations pertaining to the delivery of distance education and related services for the distance learner. The study would also evaluate the development of existing virtual/electronic colleges in the United States and other countries. The project will review previously funded TMAPP projects to determine if and how their outcomes may facilitate the development of an electronic community college and integrate best practices into its development. The final report would identify and recommend policies, procedures, and processes related to quality, student and academic support services, decision-making structures, mission, program approval, infrastructure, and financial aid.

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Statewide/Regional Delivery of Distance Education Demonstration Project

Recipient: Palomar CCD
Request for Application Specification
Application Identification Number: 98-0666
Program Unit: Educational Services and Economic Development
Funding Category: Distance Education
Funding Period: June 29, 1999 through June 30, 2000
Maximum Funds Available: $300,000
Number of Awards: One

Purpose/Use of the Funds
The project seeks to develop procedures for the identification of successful pre-existing or newly developed distance education programs that can be revised, edited, and improved for regional and statewide delivery. The project goal is to delivery distance education across district lines in a regional or statewide consortium. The project may acquire pricing agreements based on volume for the leasing/purchase of selected programs and courses.

The proposal will consider courses using one or more of these technologies: television, computer conferencing, audio/audio-graphic conferencing, video-conferencing, voice mail, and e-mail in synchronous and asynchronous mode.

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Library and Learning Resources Services for the Remote Learner Demonstration Project

Recipient: Grossmont-Cuyamaca CCD/Glendale CCD
Request for Application Specification
Application Identification Number: 98-0667
Program Unit: Educational Services and Economic Development
Funding Category: Feasibility Grant
Funding Period: June 29, 1999 through June 30, 2000
Maximum Funds Available: $150,000
Number of Awards: Two

Purpose/Use of the Funds
The purposes of this project are twofold: 1) to coordinate and support the planning and implementation of a program designed to increase remote student and faculty access to the same high quality library and learning resources programs as received by the on-campus community and 2) to increase usage of the system’s library and media information resources and services. The target audiences for this project are remote learners, disabled students, working students, faculty and staff.

The projects should further address providing these services 24 hours a day, be accessible from multiple sites, and be offered and in a format appropriate to the different learning styles of users.

The results of this demonstration project would be reviewed by the Library and Learning Resources Programs Advisory Committee for possible inclusion into the Telecommunications Technology Infrastructure Program and the Equity of Access to Quality Library and Learning Resources Programs long range planning process. The results could be considered as a model for providing library and learning resources programs to the students and faculty of the California Community Colleges and the nation.