CBE Business DTA Pilot

--curriculum, faculty and completion coaches

October 22, 2014

Competency-Based Program

• Students must demonstrate mastery of

explicit competencies to receive credit

• Students receive constant support

based on their individual learning needs

• Learning, not time, is the determining

factor

(Adapted from Christensen Institute)

The Goal

• A Business Transfer Degree– Competency based

– Completely online

– Openly licensed (CC BY)

– Six-month term with multiple start dates

– Full time equivalent tuition ($2667 plus fees)

– Students work at their own pace, completing as

many credits as they are able during each term

– Available January 2015

Pilot Colleges

• Columbia Basin—lead

• Bellevue

• Centralia

• Everett

• Green River

• Olympic

• Pierce Colleges (2)

• Tacoma

The Elements

• Students with some college or work

experience

• “Intrusive” advisors at each college

• Completion coaches

– Hired by Columbia Basin for the pilot

consortium

• Disciplinary faculty who teach and assess

– Hired by Columbia Basin for the pilot

consortium

18 Courses

• System work group chose high-

enrollment courses that meet the

distribution requirements

• Courses will be transcribed as regular

credits and use open content

• Curriculum and competencies will be

mapped by system faculty

Business DTA

ENGL& 101 (English Composition I)

ENGL& 102 (Composition II)

MATH 147 (Finite Math)

MATH& 148 (Business Calculus)

CMST& 220 (Public Speaking)

ENGL& 244 (American Literature I)

ART&100 (Art Appreciation)

ECON& 201 (Micro Economics)

ECON& 202 (Macro Economics)

SOC& 101 (Intro to Sociology)

POLS& 202 (American

Government)

MATH& 146 (Introduction to Stats)

BIOL& 100 (Survey of Biology)

GEOL& 101 (Intro Physical

Geology)

ACCT& 201 (Principles of

Accounting I)

ACCTt&202 (Principles of

Accounting II)

ACCT& 203 (Principles of

Accounting III)

BUS& 201 (Business Law )

Lumen Learning

• Leaders in open educational resources

and in CBE

• Helping to build openly licensed courses

and adaptive assessments

• Student cost for course materials = $0

For adaptive assessments = $40 per

student per term

• http://lumenlearning.com

Curriculum Development

• System faculty will specify the

competencies for each course, with

process facilitation from Lumen

Learning

• The competencies will match the

expected content of the existing transfer

course, and the course will appear on

the student’s transcript as the regular

five-credit course

Curriculum Review

• Course competencies will undergo a

public review and comment period, after

which system faculty will address

comments and concerns in the

competency documents with process

facilitation from Lumen Learning

• http://cbewa.org

Curriculum Design

• System faculty will select and adapt the

open content to be used with each

competency, with process facilitation

from Lumen Learning

• System faculty will select and adapt the

assessments to be used in the

formative tests that underlie the

courses' adaptive features, with process

facilitation from Lumen Learning

Final Assessments

• The teaching faculty who are hired to

teach the courses will develop the final,

summative assessments for the

competencies and finalize the courses,

with process facilitation from Lumen

Learning

• The teaching faculty will administer the

final assessments and assign the grade

Final Assessments

• Include all competencies identified for

the course

• Are project- or performance-based

• Administered when student is ready

• Student grades = A (4.0) or B (3.0)

• Other grades per college policies

(Incomplete, Failure, etc.)

Teaching

• The teaching faculty will interact directly

with students using elearning tools

(Canvas, Collaborate, Panopto, etc.)

• The competency-based and adaptive

features of the courses will use an

elearning tool called Candela Mastery,

which will be integrated into Canvas

Student Completion

• Students will have a competency

dashboard for each course that shows

the required competencies and the

student’s progress toward each one

• The teaching faculty and completion

coaches will work together to assist

students and to keep them on track to

completion

License and Review

• All competencies and course content

will be openly licensed (Creative

Commons Attribution 4.0 or later)

• Regular updates and improvements will

be made to the curriculum based on a

range of empirical data

Faculty Job Announcements

• Columbia Basin is hiring four full-time

and six adjunct faculty for the pilot year

• January through December 2015

• Special faculty contracts

• First consideration closes November 12

• http://agency.governmentjobs.com/colu

mbiabasin/default.cfm

First Faculty Cohort

• Four full-time faculty

– English

– Math

– Accounting

– Economics and Business Law

First Faculty Cohort

• Six adjunct faculty

– Sociology

– Political Science

– Geology

– Biology

– Public Speaking

– Art

Faculty responsibilities

• Complete course development

• Interact with students

• Design, deliver and grade final

assessments

• Work with completion coach to help

students succeed

Resources on CBE

• Bloom, Benjamin (1984). “The 2 Sigma Problem: The

Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective

as One-to-One Tutoring.” Educational Researcher,

13:6 (4-16)

• CBEN http://www.cbenetwork.org/competency-

based-education/

• CAEL http://www.cael.org/what-we-do/competency-

based-education

• U of Wisconsin: http://flex.wisconsin.edu/

CBE Completion Coach

The next slides will show the student/CBE

Completion Coach relationship

Main responsibility Support the student

for course and degree completion

Columbia Basin College CBE Business Program: Student Process

Enrolled Student – Business Transfer Major

CBE Completion Coach - Responsibilities

Before Courses Begin

• Discuss SmarterMeasure results with

students

• Manage application to CBE & acceptance

letter to students

• Sign contract with each student to meet

weekly

• Orientation Course in Canvas (next slide)

Student Orientation Course

• Offered in Canvas

• Completely online

• Covers Student Handbook

• How to navigate Canvas, adaptive testing, and

other eLearning tools, e.g., Panopto,

Collaborate, etc.

• How to work with faculty and completion coach

CBE Completion Coach - Responsibilities

After Student Begins Courses

• Meets with student weekly

• Refers students to appropriate

resources

• Monitors activity in courses

• Confers with faculty members when

appropriate

• Pacing Chart Course Completion

Find Out More

• Blog: http://cbewa.org

• Listserv:

http://lists.ctc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbe

• Job announcements:

http://agency.governmentjobs.com/colu

mbiabasin/default.cfm

Questions?

Connie Broughton

cbroughton@sbctc.edu

Cathy Clary

cclary@columbiabasin.edu