Transcript OEI – Online education initiative

OEI – Online
education initiative
What are the implications for
Canada college and the district?
What is the OEI?
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The Online Education Initiative (OEI) is a statefunded collaborative effort among California
Community Colleges (CCCs) to increase student
success and completion by working together to
increase access to quality online courses and
support services for students.
What are the goals of the OEI?
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Ensure that more students can obtain certificates,
degrees, and transfer to four-year colleges in a timely
manner. Special attention is given to support services
that are tailored the diverse needs of community
college students.
What are the benefits of the OEI?
● Expand student access to quality online courses by providing
support for course improvements aligned with common quality
standards and by facilitating cross-college enrollment
● Increase student success and completion with support and
services such as tutoring, online learning readiness, and basic skills
support
● Encourage faculty and staff involvement with professional
development, instructional design support, networking, and content
resources
● Improved access to courses and services through an innovative
common online learning environment
● Leverage cost through systemwide licensing
Timeline?
Over the next two years, pilot colleges will begin offering online
courses within the selected common course management system.
All faculty and staff will have opportunities for collaboration and
professional development starting in Spring 2015.
Upon successful completion of the pilots, all California Community
Colleges will have access to online learning readiness modules and
tutoring solutions for free or at reduced cost.
By 2016, the common course management system will also be available
to all colleges for free or at reduced cost.
Where are they now?
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Course exchange – This is the final product of the OEI, but the one that is the
most complex.
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Courses selected for the pilot are part of ADTs and are courses that commonly
fill quickly.
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Courses selected for pilot
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Meant to enable students to take online classes from across the group of
participating colleges. None of the colleges in SMCCD are participating in the
pilot.
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Must develop business processes and standards to ensure consistent and
effective data transfer between colleges. Details still a work in progress.
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Launch with pilot colleges using new CMS is expected in Fall 2015.
Where are they now?
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eTutoring – 3/20/15
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OEI nettutor from Link Systems International (LSI)
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OEI has negotiated volume discounted pricing for online tutoring services.
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Also funded a systemwide license for LSI’s WorldWideWhiteboard online tutoring
platform. This platform can be used by any college wanting to hire its own tutors
to provide online tutoring.
Where are they now?
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Student Readiness modules, including Smarter Measure Assessment –
Pilot colleges began using these in Jan and modules are supposed to be
available at no cost by fall 2015.
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Module 1: Introduction to Online learning
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Module 2: Getting Tech Ready
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Module 3: Organizing for Online Success
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Module 4: Online Study Skills and Managing Time
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Module 5: Communication Skills for Online Learning
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Module 6: Online Reading Strategies
College can adopt any or all parts. Can be embedded into courses
Questions – tutoring and student
readiness
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What additional information about the tutoring and/or student readiness
products do you want/need to discuss adoption at Canada College?
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Who (at Canada) should participate in this discussion and decision?
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Should this be a College or District decision?
Where are they now?
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2/12/15 – Canvas chosen as the course management system for the OEI course
exchange.
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Contract information is not yet available, so we don’t know what it might cost
the district.
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Canvas - free trial available
Questions – Course management system
1)
What additional information about Canvas do you want/need to discuss
adoption at Canada College? Should we have a few faculty pilot use of
Canvas?
2)
Who (at Canada) should participate in this discussion and decision?
3)
Should this be a College or District decision?
Where are they now?
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Course rubric – meant to ensure quality of course design as well as overall
quality of courses in the Exchange.
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Could be used for course design or course evaluation
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OEI Rubric
On-going evaluation, particularly around regular and effective contact.
Needed for accreditation. Could use section of rubric on Interaction and
Collaboration to assess.
Questions – OEI Rubric
1)
How could the OEI rubric be used at Canada College?
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Who (at Canada) should participate in this discussion and decision about the
use you considered?
Where are they now?
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Professional development – Standards for faculty preparedness. OEI does not
currently have any requirement.
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There is currently interest at CSM in developing district-wide standards for
faculty preparedness for teaching online. What does Canada think?