Technology and Distance Education FPC Committee Meeting
Date: September 11, 2025
Present
Katy Chapman, Dean Glenn Good, Megan McMillan, Mary Kay Carodine, Tammy Huang, Domenic Durante, Jason Arnold
Announcements
- Announced Walter Balser as 2025-2026 Technology and Distance Education FPC Committee Chair
- Announced Katy Chapman as 2025-2026 Technology and Distance Education FPC Committee FPC Rep
Committee’s Established Goals from 2024-2025 Academic Year
Discussed Committee’s Established Goals from 2024-2025 academic year
Committee’s Carry Forward Recommendations from 2024-2025 Academic Year
Discussed Committee’s Carry Forward Recommendations from 2024-2025 academic year
Goals for the 2025-2026 Academic Year
Discussed and identified Goals for the 2025-2026 academic year. Those goals were as follows (items highlighted in yellow were identified as those which we might not want to take on for the 2025-2026 academic year):
Faculty and ETC Organized Workshops – Practical Applications of AI & Advanced Learning Technologies Within Courses
- Tara Mathien & Lori Dassa – AI within GoReact – October 2025
- Amber Moss – agent creation in her course – creation of a text-based agent – combine with medicine/ETC (Jason) – make an agent in Gemini and ChatGPT – & Chris Thomas – education law focus
- Jinnie Shin (sp?) – Engineering Course Development, using AI to partner students with future employers, goal to roll out to statewide – combine with education, school districts, and tech world – deeper use of LLMs
- Walter Balser – microcredential-like courses for educational entities, use of AI in work, decentralization of current education system and use of that to your benefit
Student Workshops
- Students teaching students or student-facing workshops – learn and takeaways – could be offered online for online students
Accessibility of Courses
- April 2026 requirement from DOJ, accessibility compliance of websites – everything must be accessible by a screen reader
- Faculty liaisons involved in this process
- Workshop where we highlight tools that faculty can use
- PDF reader or converter
- Captioning videos with accuracy – free tools
Simple Syllabi
- Interfaces with Canvas – help faculty adopt this system smoothly – workshop/meeting?
- Will be integrated into Canvas – rolling out full in Spring 2026
HyPerGator Tutor Agent
- Explore if that will be available on a pilot basis – use in AI days
- Currently text-based, but moving toward avatar/AI agent
- Is there a pilot available for that?
Course Mapping Workshop for New Faculty
- Tie into QM+UF certification – aligning to the standards as identified by the BOG with focus on accessibility