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Cheryl Knight Senior Instructional Designer

Michael Wilkins Associate Professor, Mathematics

Can a MOOC Reduce Time in

Developmental Education? A MOOC Case Study on Increasing Developmental Education Student Success

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Cuyahoga Community College

www.tri-c.edu

Cleveland, OH

50,000 Students Annually

4 Separate Campuses

Approx: 90% DevEd Math

Approx: 75% DevEd English

What is a MOOC?

• Faculty

• Administration

• Students

• Corporate partners

Who initiates innovative

projects at your institution?

Funding

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/US-Program/College-Ready-Education

Timeline

2012 2013

September October December/

January

January and

February

March June

Submitted

grant

proposal

Grant

awarded

Brainstorm Curate and

build

First session

began

Last session

ended

Rapid Development

Gamified

Traditional MOOC• Student population highly

educated

• Functions like a traditional online course

• High use of instructional video

• Instructor or expert-focused

• Completion vs success

Tri-Cs Gamified MOOC

• Student population little or no college

• Use of existing OER

• Leveling up

• Low-risk failure environment

• Digital Badge Use

• Completion = success

Course Platform

FREE TO USE

OER in early 2013 was very different than current available resources

Think you have what it takes?It's a long walk through the jungle to base camp. In the quests below, earn fresh water and food to

prepare for the Challenge on Real Numbers.

Instructional Videos

Practice and Assessments

Leveling Up

Design and DevelopmentBadges and Certificate

Facilitation and Monitoring

• 4 x4 weeks terms

• Faculty had daily assignments to monitor question boards and rotated weekends.

• Face to face technology based session

• Time commitment

• Who has enrolled?

• How many started?

• How many completed the MOOC?

• Complete and place in a higher course?

What data is most important when

evaluating the effectiveness of the MOOC?

Highest Level of Educational Attainment

Level Count Percentage

Middle school 67 10%

High school 143 21%

Some college 261 39%

Associates degree 40 6%

Bachelors degree 68 10%

Masters degree 75 11%

PhD 17 3%

Currently Enrolled in Higher Education

Level Count Percentage

2 yr 222 27.4%

4 yr 25 3.1%

MA/MS 9 1.1%

PhD 5 0.6%

Completion Stats

Comparable Tri-C Course Data,

Spring 2013

Pass

With

A-B

Total Grades

Awarded,

Excluding Audits

% of

Total

Total # Enrolled in MATH 0910,

excluding Audits

425 1498 28.4%

Tri-C MOOC 147 809 18%

# receiving survey 1372

# responding 809

# responders who completed

course

147 (or 18.4%)

TRI-C COMPASS DATA

Same Placement,

Higher Test Score

or Comparable

Higher Test Score,

Placed Higher

Course

Placed out of Dev

Ed

3 7 3

23.1% 53.8% 23.1%

64 students identified as Tri-C students and provided S#

13 provided pre- and post-test results through COMPASS

Total of 76% (10 of 13) improved to a higher placement and/or

out of Developmental Math

Quality Matters Recognized

• First MOOC to receive this recognition

• Commitment to quality design

Award Winning

Institutional Now What?

Cons

• Unclear how to expand to all DevEd Math

• Difficult to track progress externally

• Faculty compensation model

Pro

• It works- increased success rates in those we could track

• Stand alone or supplemental tool

• Serves a model for other disciplines

Reflection

No release time for faculty to continue to build or monitor in current format

Design and development needs subject mater experts (faculty) to vet content

Commitment to concept, but not yet worked out in practice.

Who owns it? How is it going to move forward?

Questions????

Contact and MOOC info

Send an e-mail to

[email protected]•All of our contact information

• Information on how to access the full MOOC

*No animals, designers, or faculty were hurt in the process of MOOC developments






Thank You

MOOC graphics are creative commons licensed with credit to Carl E. Nestor

Non-presenting co-author Sasha Thackaberry




