Transcript MCCVLC Distance Learning Administrators Survey

MCCVLC Update
July 2008
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So what does this mean for us?
It means that we have been on the right track
since the MCCA Board of Directors approved
the Statewide Community College Services
Task Force Recommendations in March 1996
and the
MCCVLC project in July 1998.
MCCVLC Strategic Plan
Update
July 2008
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2008-2012 STRATEGIC GOALS
• Goal #1: Support Colleges Adopting Innovations in
Teaching & Learning
• Goal #2: Facilitate Program Sharing Among Colleges
• Goal #3: Facilitate The Sharing Of Scarce Resources
• Goal #4: Leverage Strategic Partnerships
• Goal #5: Increase Opportunities for Global Education
• Goal #6: Provide a More Efficient Interface for
Learners and College Staff
• Goal #7: Raise Awareness of the VLC in the Michigan
Education Community
Goal #1: Support Colleges Adopting
Innovations in Teaching & Learning
• Strategy #1: Identify and showcase promising
innovations.
– Over 34 webinars and workshops on technology innovations
• Strategy #2: Facilitate collaborative efforts to
implement innovations.
– Negotiated preferred pricing on software/services
– Developing virtual presence – MCCVLC Island in Second Life
– Developing a virtual Help Desk
Goal #1: Support Colleges Adopting
Innovations in Teaching & Learning
• Strategy #3: Develop a process to assess the
effectiveness and adoption potential of an innovation.
– Negotiated free trials of software/services for colleges to
utilized and investigate
• Strategy #4: Develop the VLC capacity for data
collection and analysis needed to evaluate
effectiveness of innovations.
– Redesigned VLC staff website – to collect data – cyberpolls
– MCCVLC Distance Learning Administrators Survey 2008 &
2010
Goal #2: Facilitate Program Sharing
Among Colleges
• Strategy #1: Develop business models that support
curriculum sharing.
– Developed site on VLC staff site for posting of online and
hybrid programs to be shared
– VLC Online/Hybrid Program Development Project
– Supported the new MRI Technician degree program
• Strategy #2: Develop processes for matching need
with capacity in credit and non-credit programming:
– Established the VLC Non-Credit Task Force
Goal #2: Facilitate Program Sharing
Among Colleges
• Strategy #3: Secure seed money funding to support
program sharing.
– Preliminary discussion with Gates Foundation
– Submitted two FIPSE grants (2010) to support the
development and sharing of occupational (hybrid)
programs and developmental education modules
• Strategy #4: Facilitate the collaborative design,
development and delivery of the curricular offerings.
– VLC Non-Credit Task Force
– VLC Online/Hybrid Program Development Project
Goal #2: Facilitate Program Sharing
Among Colleges
• Strategy #5: Develop the capacity to implement an
applied baccalaureate program.
– Researched and developed model online program for BSN.
Goal #3: Facilitate The Sharing Of
Scarce Resources
• Strategy #1: Create business models for the sharing
of resources.
– New VLC staff website
• Strategy #2: Create resource pools to support
innovation at member colleges
– Resume bank, employment listing
• Strategy #3: Identify and disseminate best practices.
– Delivered over 15 webinars and workshops
Goal #3: Facilitate The Sharing Of
Scarce Resources
• Strategy #4: Facilitate the offering of professional
development programs that colleges cannot offer
individually.
– Delivered over 12 webinars and workshops
– MCCVLC Course Quality Assurance Project
• Strategy #5: Advocate for policies that support the
sharing of resources and programs.
– Dialogue with Chief Academic Officers (CAO) and MODAC
groups – ongoing.
•
Goal #3: Facilitate The Sharing Of
Scarce Resources
• Strategy #6: Develop a mechanism to continually
monitor and update common standards that make
program and resource sharing feasible.
– Coordinated the 2008 & 2010 Distance Learning
Administrators Survey and provided report of findings.
Held meetings with VLC Advisory Council to review
findings and identify issues/goals.
Goal #4: Leverage Strategic
Partnerships
• Strategy #1: Identify desired strategic partnering
areas and desired outcomes
– Developed the MCCVLC Memorandum of Understanding
for Baccalaureate Partner Institutions.
– Partnership with MERIT, MiCTA, ITC & ETOM
• Strategy #2: Implement key partnerships that
capitalize on the infrastructure of the VLC and the
critical mass of successful online learners
– Secondary Education partnerships (dual enrollment)
– Baccalaureate completion partnerships
– Private sector partnerships
Goal #5: Support MCCA and College
Initiatives in Global Education
• Strategy #1: Identify opportunities for "virtual"
student exchange and provide support for traditional
student exchange programs.
• Strategy #2: Support initiatives involving curriculum
exchange.
– VLC staff website provides information on existing
programs – additional support can be designed as needed.
Goal #5: Support MCCA and College
Initiatives in Global Education
• Strategy #3: Provide opportunities for Michigan
community college students to study foreign
language and develop cultural competencies.
– Member institutions offering online foreign language on
the MCCVLC website.
• Strategy #4: Support community and business efforts
to expand into global markets.
– VLC Non-Credit Task Force
Goal #6: Provide a More Efficient
Interface For Learners & College Staff
• Strategy #1: Link the VLC system to the Michigan
Transfer Network.
• Strategy #2: Streamline the current registration system.
– Enhanced VLC website with analytic software for monitoring
and better results in searches.
– Enhancements to VLC Administrative Menu for the batch
loading of courses to VLC website – reducing time to load
courses up on the VLC website from 2 weeks to 30 minutes
per semester offerings.
– Enhanced VLC Student accounts to show course history as
requested by students.
Goal #6: Provide a More Efficient
Interface For Learners & College Staff
• Strategy #3: Revise existing VLC system to support
strategic partnerships.
– VLC student website has been updated to support 4 year
offerings – including registration.
• Strategy #4: Enhance VLC system to support Workforce
Development initiatives
– Non-Credit Task Force work – includes the development of
non-credit offerings listed on the VLC student website.
Goal #7: Raise Awareness of the VLC in
the Education Community
• Strategy #1: Provide Information about the VLC to
college staff and faculty
– Presentation for VLC representatives use on their campus.
– Presentations & meetings at colleges in support of
staff/faculty development.
• Strategy #2: Provide Information about the VLC to
education-related associations and organizations
– Michigan College Access Portal
• Strategy #3: Provide Information about the VLC to
Michigan public policy makers
– MCCA Board updates, and MCCA eConnection newsletter
MCCVLC 2010 Distance Learning
Administrators Survey Results
http://tinyurl.com/2e5hh29
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Who
• 24 submissions
• Based on 2008-2009 ASC grouping:
– Group 1:
– Group 2:
– Group 3:
– Group 4:
9 submissions (10 possible)
6 submissions (7 possible)
6 submissions (8 possible)
3 submissions (3 possible)
Organization Structure
• Reporting Line
– Group 1: 55% (5)report to Academic Administrator; 33%
(3)report to Non-academic Administrator; 12% (1)report to
President
– Group 2: 50% (3) report to Academic Administrator; 50%
(3) report to Non-academic Administrator
– Group 3: 83% (5)report to Academic Administrator; 17%
(1) report to Non-academic Administrator
– Group 4: 33% (1) report to Academic Administrator; 33%
(1) report to Non-academic Administrator; 33% (1) no
program
– ITC National Survey: 74% report to Academic
Administrator; 6% report directly to President
Organizational Structure
2010
A Mix
Centralized
Decentralized
In 2010: Centralized – 46%/Decentralized – 25%/Mix – 29%
In 2008: Centralized – 48%/Decentralized – 22%/ Mix – 30%
In 2006: Centralized – 48%/Decentralized – 26%/ Mix – 26%
Program
• Assessment of course prior to offering
– 67% have some assessment
– Up from 2006 when 57% did assessment prior to
offering
• Offering online degrees
– In 2010 – 33% said yes
– Nationally – 75% offer at least one online degree
Program
• How are decisions made regarding new courses and
programs?
– 33% - academic/discipline level decision
– Only one college uses a strategic plan to guide
program & course development decisions
• Average length to develop a course
– 3 – 6 months (54% of responses)
• Number of courses developed this year
– Average is 6.7
– Range from 2 to 20
Program
• Section enrollment caps for online
– In 2010, average is 23-24
– In 2006, average was 20
– Nationally – per ITC Survey
• 27 for Introduction to Math course
• 25 for Introduction to English Composition course
• 30 for Introduction to Political Science course
• Non-credit offerings:
– 46% responded Yes
– 66% offer non-credit online offerings – ITC Survey
Greatest Challenges
Challenge
Ranking 2010
Ranking 2008
ITC Ranking 2009
Support Staff needed for
training & technical
assistance
1
2
1
Measuring Quality
2
1
Operating/Equipment
Budget
3
4
4
Adequate Admin
Authority
4
2
5
Adequate Assessment
5
Adequate Student
Services
6
6
2
Faculty Acceptance
7
5
6
Organization Acceptance
8
7
8
Student Acceptance
9
8
10
3
Faculty
• Training prior to teaching online
– 63% said training was mandatory
– Nationally – 60% indicated training was
mandatory
• 70% require more than 8 hours of training
• 20 % require less than 8 hours of training
• 10% require exactly 8 hours of training
Students
• Challenges - from ITC survey
– Making sure students are prepared to take online
classes.
– Getting students to read information about
distance education classes and understanding
there is a basic knowledge of computer skills
needed to be successful.
Students
• Are students required to participate in an
orientation prior to enrolling in online courses?
– 63% responded No (15)
– 33% responded Yes (8)
• Retention
– Of those reporting – average retention rate is 67%
– Range from 50% to 79%
– National – 72%
Typical Online Program
Top Ten List
10. Struggles to obtain understanding,
acceptance and support from campus leaders,
who often lack direct experience with this
method of teaching and learning (sometimes
a generational disconnect).
Typical Online Program
Top Ten List
9. Often leads the institution in dealing with
issues of assessment, design, rigor, course
quality and learning.
Typical Online Program
Top Ten List
8. Has become a significant change-agent,
prompting increased faculty training and
professional development, rethinking how
we teach, and providing a catalyst for
integrating technology into instruction.
Typical Online Program
Top Ten List
7. Offers approximately 160 online classes/class
sections each semester.
Typical Online Program
Top Ten List
6. Is under-staffed, working in cramped
conditions, and has an inadequate budget.
Typical Online Program
Top Ten List
5. Reports to the academic side of the
institution (dean or above).
Typical Online Program
Top Ten List
4. Is attracting an increasing number of nontraditional (younger) students.
Typical Online Program
Top Ten List
3. Increases access to higher education.
Typical Online Program
Top Ten List
2. Does not offer enough classes to meet
student demand.
Typical Online Program
Top Ten List
1. Is the primary source of enrollment growth
for its institution!
From the 2009 ITC Survey – Trends in eLearning: Tracking the Impact of eLearning at Community Colleges
March 2010