open education, moocs, & student access
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Join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources and CCC Confer on April 30, 10:00 am Pacific for a panel discussion on rebooting California’s higher education system with Open Education, MOOCs, and an online Student Access Platform. image of speakers and webinar descriptionThe California legislature, responding to shrinking budgets and huge wait lists for gateway courses, has proposed: Open textbooks Credit for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) The California Online Student Access Platform Three leaders in the field share their thoughts on this revolution in higher education. What are the next steps for ensuring the success of our students? How do we continue the prominence of California’s institutions of higher education? Dean Florez, CEO of the Twenty Million Minds Foundation, and former majority leader of the California senate, has been a driving force behind the new legislation and instrumental in bringing stakeholders and MOOC thought leaders together to reboot higher education in California. Dr. Barbara Illowsky, Mathematics professor and open textbook faculty co-author at De Anza Community College. An early developer of open educational resources to make college affordable, Dr. Illowsky has continued to push for digital interactivity to improve student learning outcomes. In fall 2013, she plans to teach an introductory, descriptive, not-for-credit statistics MOOC. Dr. Michelle Pilati, Psychology professor at Rio Hondo College and current president of the CCC Academic Senate has been closely involved with the implementation strategy for the new legislation to set up an Open Educational Resources (OER) Council containing faculty representatives from the three public higher education systems.TRANSCRIPT
Senator(retd.) Dean Florez, 20 Million Minds Foundation
Dr. Barbara Illowsky, De Anza College Dr. Michelle Pilati, Rio Hondo College
April 30, 2013
Open Education, MOOCs, & Student Access
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Your hosts:– Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director at Open
Courseware Consortium– James Glapa-Grossklag, President of CCCOER Advisory
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Agenda
• Community Colleges and Open Ed• Rebooting Higher Ed in California• OER and MOOCs• Academic Senate & OER council• Choosing our next webinar• Q & A
CCCOER Mission
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance teaching and learning
– Expand access to education– Support professional development– Advance community college mission
Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
200+ Community & Technical College
Why Now
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How to Get Involved?
Join the CCCOER advisory listParticipate in our community of interestAttend our free monthly webinarsVisit our website to find resources Invite us to conduct faculty trainingBecome a member of the OCWC
oerconsortium.org [email protected]
Rebooting CA Higher Education
Dean FlorezCEO, Twenty Million Minds Foundation
Former CA State Senate Majority Leader
Open Education in Classroom
Dr. Barbara IllowskyMath Instructor and open textbook co-author
Chancellor’s Office 2012-13
California Community College System
Me! • Teach online, hybrid, f2f• OER textbook: Collaborative Statistics• CVC 2002 top online course award• OCW Consortium 2013 Educator Award
(international)• Teaching MOOC “Intro to Descriptive Statistics”,
4-week, not-for-credit in January 2014
Open Educational Resources (OER)
“Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or repurposing by others.”
U.S Department of Education
OER: Saves $$$
Amazon $171.25 hardcopy Web - $0POD - $26.20 + SH
Wiley & Sons Connexions
De Anza College student savings…
for just one course:
> $1,000,000
OER: Free to Choose
• provides faculty with more choices for their courses
• allows for permission-free editing and adaptation
• promotes customization• eliminates forced publisher revisions
OER: Adoption Concerns
• Faculty awareness of OER is low• Difficulty of finding materials• Standards for quality vary• Lack of ancillaries
Exploring MOOCs
• Massive: > 1000 students
• Online: videos lectures, automated quizzes, discussions
• Open: open enrollment but NOT OER• Course: learning experience
MOOC Concerns
• Poor instruction quality• Low Completion rates: 5-15% is typical
• Learner support is minimal• Assessment for credit: costs $; in early
stages• Sustainability is unknown
Community College MOOCs for non-
credit??• Thousands of students taking basic skills &
pre-transfer level English, reading, writing, ESL and mathematics courses
• Huge subset of above population, at one time, had learned the content using taxpayer $$
• Many just need to review before taking an assessment test for placement
What if …• community college faculty develop and teach
pre-transfer level MOOCs • a large subset of the “huge subset” take
MOOCs to review content?• a VERY small subset of the “large subset of the
huge subset” complete 1 MOOC and place into 1 higher level course in just 1discipline?
Need to Review
Take MOOC
Pass MOOC
Population - pre-transfer level
placementstudents
Very small subset of the large subset of the huge
subset…• will save at least one semester to degree
completion• will save taxpayers $$• may be encouraged to take more ownership in
their education• may take more than 1 MOOC and multiply
their time savings and taxpayer savings
In other words …
• if 100,000 students take at least 1 MOOC
• if just 6% of MOOC folks complete their course
• if this 6% of MOOC folks place into 1 course higher
• then, 94% of MOOC students are FAILURES!!!
BUT …
… 6000 students have succeeded!!!!!
… and maybe will have a …
shorter time to completion?
Academic Senate
Dr. Michelle PilatiPsychology Instructor
Academic Senate President 2011-13
California Community College System
CALIFORNIA’S AGENDA FOR OPEN EDUCATION, MOOCS, AND STUDENT ACCESS
Thoughts on the implementation of SB 1052/1053
Access issues? MOOCs and the California Community Colleges
SB 1052 AND SB 1053
Establish an intersegmental OER library and a council to facilitate populating the library and ensuring its use
Members “appointed” to the California Open Education Resources Council (COERC)
Next steps Challenges
ACCESS ISSUES
Since 2008 Funding declines (“workload reduction”) Increased demand
Today Proposition 30 Recovering economy Declining access issues
ADDRESSING “ACCESS” ISSUES
Increase success Online retention and success lags behind
that of onsite Increase online success >>> Increase
access Increase access to existing courses –
online and onsite Students want access to courses, not
pathways to unit accumulation
ONLINE AS THE ACCESS ANSWER?
Presumes equal access to technology Presumes equal success Differential outcomes exacerbated in
the online environment Online investment needs to focus on
quality as a means of increasing success
MOOCS AND THE CCC
Currently: A pathway to credit for MOOCs exists: “Credit by exam”
“Traditional” MOOCs are not a replacement for credit-bearing courses
MOOOs Massive Open Online Offerings
“Courses” result in a transcripted outcome, qualify for financial aid, and are taught by qualified faculty
COURSES IN THE CCCS
Require “regular effective contact” Regulatory requirement (Title 5)
Not “correspondence courses” Necessary to qualify for financial aid Able to document last date of attendance
MOOOS AND THE CCCS
Replacement No.
Offer an alternative Pre-assessment Possible supplement A means to increase “access”?
Perhaps – increase success >>> increase access
Perhaps – high-quality content and auto-graded assessments make a SLIGHTLY larger class size manageable
MOOOS BY THE NUMBERS
“SAGE ON THE STAGE”
FINAL THOUGHTS
CCC-developed MOOOs that capture how we teach.
MOOO as a collection of the highest quality online learning objects that the state invests in and is available for use by all. (A LOOC?)
Increase access by investing in success.
Increase/simplify access to existing course offerings.
Next WebinarJune 11, 10:00 am (Pacific)
Open Education and
Competency-based LearningImage: San Francisco State University
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Contact InformationUna Daly, [email protected]
James Glapa-Grossklag, [email protected]
Dean Florez, [email protected]
Barbara Illowsky, [email protected]
Michelle Pilati, [email protected]
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