I selected this session because elearning is planning on working with Central's Instructional Assessment Committee to train faculty on Quality Matters as a way to help faculty understand outcomes well enough to assess their achievement accurately for assessment purposes.
This was a great session, I'm glad I came. Here are my notes from the session:
El Paso Community College
10 month program, one session per month for 4 hours. Attendance required, a time to focus on themselves. Attendance required because they know that otherwise faculty workload would take over. Good food. Deans support and it is a competitive process. Haven't dropped people very often, but they have done it.
Mix of internal and external speakers (external speakers compensated). Small logo gift (computer bag) for other presenters.
Goal - to enhance teaching skills of faculty and to concentrate on teaching strategies. Focus on tools that they can implement the very next day.
Also includes an action research project. They present findings in a poster session at the end of the session.
Encouraged to utilize technology, have a technology series of topics
Informal expectation that these faculty mentor others.
Graduation session at the end, held in a fancy hotel, graduates get medallion to wear at college graduation and plaque.
Committee runs the institute, all volunteer. Launching a phase two for graduates of phase 1. Continue to work on action research and write a scholarly journal article and make a virtual conference presentation. Also get certified in their LMS. All speakers in second phase were external.
Lots of resources including
monthly newsletters, based on content of sessions,
website,
library collection
Achieving the Dream bet practice for 2011.
Kaskaskia College
New to this, modeled on the El Paso program
Tied in with several existing activities
Internal leadership academy to grow faculty, taught by the college president
How to teach online
Title 3 summer institute
5 annual in service days
Had a more individualized pathway, since it was harder for faculty to get to main campus. Lots of sessions and the faculty got to decide which things they attended. These things would give them credit towards Teachership.
Sessions
Blackboard training
Brown bag webinars
Professional development videos through Starlink
Attend conference, read book, etc and write a reflective paper
Some sessions required
Poster session ( were trained by a poster session about poster sessions)
Research paper abstract
In service days (required sessions)
Did not limit membership to faculty, some staff involved, offered for credit.
El Paso was really very helpful to them and Kaskaskia is also happy to help and share.
Neither program offers stipends, but Kaskaskia offers horizontal movement on the pay scale. Both have bursting requests, with good balance between full and part time. Most motivated by desire for personal enrichment.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Role of community college in the age of MOOCs
Hmmm, this session isn't what I thought it was. It is about developmental education being community colleges "defense" against MOOCs, since developmental Ed is place based and people centered, something that the presenters believe can't be addressed in MOOCs. I'm not generally one to leave a session early, but I don't think this one is a good use of my time.
using OER with assessments to improve student completion
Lightening Round - using OER with assessments to create completion
Excelsior avoids having remedial classes, but instead builds remediation into each class. Credit by exam is a really affordable way for people to get to a degree. Had their faculty look at the good free stuff out there and move toward being ready for an exam. Average student takes less than 12 credits with them, lower cost per credit for partners
Favorite source - Harrisburg community college. While no one has time to vet them all, this becomes an affordable way to get folks to completion.
Note to self - talk to advising - which classes are the biggest obstacles to completion.
Bridging to Excellence: reimagining Distance Learning in Baccalaureate Completion
Bridging to Excellence: Reimagining Distance Learning in Baccalaureate Completion
Panel with reps from Univ of MD University College, Western Governors, Walden University, National American University and Excelcisor College
Students often have anxiety around transferring after more intimate com coll experience, who will know their story and help them through? Look for universities that have relationships with the community colleges (as opposed to the ones who market primarily to the student), who develop relationships with students before they transfer.
Makes sense for students to focus on online universities for completion, since they are often working and placebound.
Realizing that online isn't for everyone, All of the fully online colleges have a class that the student don't pay for, but they must complete prior to starting the program. This helps them know ahead of time whether they will be successful. After students complete, advisors are there to help them complete.
UMDC also has a free course on researching online.
Studies show that the number one barrier to CC completion is lack of transferribility of credit. It is really important to start mapping students as early as possible so students are taking the right classes to transfer. They also look at prior learning, competency, CLEP, etc.
Oddly raised the issue of MOOCs. I see this as more evidence of conflating MOOCs with online learning. All of the colleges will give credit for CLEP exams, etc that students can take after taking a MOOC to demonstrate their learning.
Flipped admission process - this is a new idea for me! Colleges mining the MOOC for students who show promise and inviting them to apply to the college, giving them financial aid, etc.
AACC will have a series of 5 seminars
Panel with reps from Univ of MD University College, Western Governors, Walden University, National American University and Excelcisor College
Students often have anxiety around transferring after more intimate com coll experience, who will know their story and help them through? Look for universities that have relationships with the community colleges (as opposed to the ones who market primarily to the student), who develop relationships with students before they transfer.
Makes sense for students to focus on online universities for completion, since they are often working and placebound.
Realizing that online isn't for everyone, All of the fully online colleges have a class that the student don't pay for, but they must complete prior to starting the program. This helps them know ahead of time whether they will be successful. After students complete, advisors are there to help them complete.
UMDC also has a free course on researching online.
Studies show that the number one barrier to CC completion is lack of transferribility of credit. It is really important to start mapping students as early as possible so students are taking the right classes to transfer. They also look at prior learning, competency, CLEP, etc.
Oddly raised the issue of MOOCs. I see this as more evidence of conflating MOOCs with online learning. All of the colleges will give credit for CLEP exams, etc that students can take after taking a MOOC to demonstrate their learning.
Flipped admission process - this is a new idea for me! Colleges mining the MOOC for students who show promise and inviting them to apply to the college, giving them financial aid, etc.
AACC will have a series of 5 seminars
Solutions through Partnership: the Evolution of an Online Science Course
Solutions through Partnership: the Evolution of an Online Science Course
This was, unfortunately, a pretty bad presentation. The presenter didn't lay any foundation, so I had no idea until midway through the presentation that the presenter was not from a college, but an educational organization (Dallas Telelearning). I guess had I realized that this was essentially a sales demo, I would have selected a different session.
Here are my basic notes:
Dallas telelearning science for non- science majors
Using eScience labs, integrating Evernote for student note taking - cool
EScience labs customized the labs for the college, pulling from existing products and customizing products
McGraw hill also involved, filling in areas of the Cost, Time, Quality
Each of the partners contributed money to the effort as well.
Assessment - how is it done? Varies by instructor, some take pictures, some have students upload video of the entire lab
EScience labs notes that there is a level where the kit can't do the trick. But it does work well for college level, introductory science courses.
This was, unfortunately, a pretty bad presentation. The presenter didn't lay any foundation, so I had no idea until midway through the presentation that the presenter was not from a college, but an educational organization (Dallas Telelearning). I guess had I realized that this was essentially a sales demo, I would have selected a different session.
Here are my basic notes:
Dallas telelearning science for non- science majors
Using eScience labs, integrating Evernote for student note taking - cool
EScience labs customized the labs for the college, pulling from existing products and customizing products
McGraw hill also involved, filling in areas of the Cost, Time, Quality
Each of the partners contributed money to the effort as well.
Assessment - how is it done? Varies by instructor, some take pictures, some have students upload video of the entire lab
EScience labs notes that there is a level where the kit can't do the trick. But it does work well for college level, introductory science courses.
AACC Conference
I'm in San Francisco at the American Association of Community Colleges conference, at the invitation of my college president, Dr. Kilpatrick. I normally go to teaching or eLearning related conferences, so this is something different for me.
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