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Overview of Open SUNY
January 2014
Why Open SUNY?
What is Open SUNY?
What was the path to design Open SUNY?
How can Open SUNY support faculty?
What is the path ahead?
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Just in New York, there are millions of
individuals who need access to highquality higher education
Potential target student populations in New York State
Underserved
adults
Currently
enrolled
students
High school
students
At least a high school education,
but no college degree
6.9 M
Associate’s or bachelor’s degree
4.2 M
Current SUNY students
0.46 M
Other NYS college students
0.86 M
Juniors and seniors in NYS
0.39 M
Millions more potential students in other states and around the world
SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, Current Population Survey
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Access to and completion of higher
education shapes the lives of individuals,
economies, and societies
~2 X
Unemployment rate of individuals without any
college experience versus those with a
bachelor’s degree
~300%
Poverty rate for high school graduates relative
to poverty rate for bachelor’s degree recipients
24%
Percent difference in those reporting they
“understand quite a bit about the political
issues facing our country” between bachelor’s
degree recipients and high school graduates
Source: CollegeBoard Advocacy & Policy Center report Education Pays 2010: The Benefits of Higher Education
for Individuals and Society; National Center for Education Statistics, Current Population Survey
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Students face real challenges that impact access,
completion, and success… challenges that better onlineenabled education from SUNY institutions can solve
SUCCESS
COMPLETION
I wish all my professors had been as effective at
teaching online as the best of them – I feel like I
would have learned more…
I need some extra help to make online
work for me.
COMPLETION
COMPLETION
I need to take courses from another SUNY
school at a distance…
It will be tough for me to finish
my degree because of the costs
(e.g., textbooks)
ACCESS
ACCESS
SUCCESS
The degree I want isn’t offered
online by any SUNY institution
I want to combine the flexibility of
online and hands-on learning
opportunities
SOURCE: Student focus groups and surveys; Regional Engagement Sessions; interviews with campus staff
I’m not sure what online
degrees SUNY offers / it
is hard to find the right
program for me
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At the same time, online education is rapidly and
substantially changing the higher education landscape
~20%
Yearly growth rate of students enrolled in at
least one online course over the last decade
>30%
Percent of students enrolled in higher education
in the U.S. also enrolled in at least one online
course2
69%
~$7,000
Chief academic leaders that say that online
learning is critical to their long-term strategy3
Cost of the new online M.S. in Computer Science
from Georgia Tech1
Babson Survey Research Group and the College Board, “Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
Babson Survey Research Group and the College Board, “Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
3 Babson Survey Research Group and the College Board, “Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
4 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/14/georgia-tech-and-udacity-roll-out-massive-new-low-cost-degree-program
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SUNY must respond by working together to raise
the bar on our online-enabled education efforts.
Open SUNY is our common response
Open SUNY Vision
Open SUNY aims to provide students
with the nation’s leading online
learning experience. Open SUNY
aims to draw on the Power of SUNY
and support campuses and faculty to:
▪
Dramatically expand access to
higher education
▪
▪
Raise completion rates
Prepare students for success in
their lives and careers, and
contribute to the economic success
of New York State and beyond
Source: 2013 State of the University Address: College Is Worth It, January 15, 2013; Interim Report of the Chancellor’s
Online Education Advisory Team, December 2012; SUNY Board Outlines Implementation of Open SUNY, March 19, 2013
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Why Open SUNY?
What is Open SUNY?
What was the path to design Open SUNY?
How can Open SUNY support faculty?
What is the path ahead?
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What is Open SUNY?
A cross-system collaboration to create initiatives and services
that support campuses and faculty in enhancing online-enabled
education to improve student access, completion and success
Open SUNY WILL…
Open SUNY WILL NOT…
▪
Be a set of initiatives and services
▪
▪
Be a new campus or serve as a degreegranting entity
Enhance our joint capabilities and
offerings in online-enabled education
▪
Change the authorities of Presidents or
other campus leaders
Acknowledge and build upon successes
and ongoing efforts of your campuses
▪
Provide attractive opportunities for
campuses while respecting their
autonomy
Alter, undermine, circumvent or
otherwise change existing governance
processes or models
▪
Establish a set of mandates for
campuses or faculty to conduct online
education
▪
▪
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Myths about Open SUNY
There are a number of myths about Open SUNY
1. “Open SUNY will try to remove faculty control of the curriculum and modify academic
standards.”
2. “Open SUNY and online education is a smokescreen for job cuts.”
3. “Open SUNY will force our faculty to accept credits…from other SUNY institutions…from
MOOCs…from PLAs that we do not think provide the level of learning / rigor we demand.”
4. “Open SUNY is all about seamless transfer.”
5. “Open SUNY and efforts to expand online-enabled learning risk my / my colleagues’ critical
intellectual property.”
6. “All faculty will be forced to teach online.”
7. “Open SUNY will turn teaching into a cookie-cutter process, forcing standardization.”
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Open SUNY: Our digital DNA
Emerging Open SUNY initiatives
Prior
Creditlearning
bearing
Course
Community supports
third-party assessment
of practice
content
Competency
= Not
operational
development
Competencyin Jan 2014
based
Faculty
Experiential
learning
professional
learning
Research
Lab for
development
Open SUNY
&
new models
in online
Learning
innovation
in teaching
education
Commons
and learning
24/7 service
hotline
Student
concierge
24/7 service
hotline
Online
academic
tutoring
Library
and open
educational
resources
Student
computer
program
Student
services
hotline
Educational
resources
ePortfolio
Open SUNY
Complete
SUNY
Universal
sign-on
OpenSUNY.edu
navigator
SUNY
Student
online
experience
Stakeholder
engagement
and communications
Potential
students
Online
Exploration
readiness
course
assessment
Funders
and
partners
NY State
Workforce
development
Open SUNY
Global
Campus and
system-wide
initiatives and
supports
Student
supports
General
education
Offerings
powered by
Open SUNY +
Academic
initiatives
Faculty
supports
Signature
SUNY
programs
High-needs
disciplines
Institutional
pathways &
readiness
Skill
remediation
Affordable
broadband
for NYS
IT enablers
Open SUNY
infrastructure
Identification
& verification
Monitoring
and
continuous
improvement
Revenue
and
cost
models
Policy
architecture
Credits
Legal and
and financial
compliance
aid across
policies
campuses
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Degrees powered by Open SUNY + will have a
series of distinctive elements
Degrees powered by Open SUNY +
Student supports
•
Highlighted on Open SUNY Navigator
•
Personal Concierge
•
24/7 Help Desk
•
Online Academic Tutoring
•
Experiential Learning
•
Industry-Leading Teaching Practices
SOURCE: McKinsey
Faculty supports
• 24/7 Help Desk
“Provided McKinsey team members of
extraordinary
• Preferredtalent.”
access to faculty center
“Give every ounce of energy for our success.
• Course development supports
Do you sleep?”
including:
• Instructional
“Powerful
that you have designer
the ability to work
•
Multimedia
specialist
from the Director to the junior analyst.”
• Librarians
“Invaluable coaches to our senior leaders and
team
members.”
• Expanded
tools for integration with the
Learning Management Systems
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The first wave of degrees powered by Open SUNY +
includes eight degrees from six campuses
▪
AAS in Clinical Laboratory Technologies
▪
AAS/AS in Tourism Management
▪
BS in Electrical Engineering
▪
BS in Business, Management, and Economics: Human
Resources Management
▪
BS in Science, Mathematics, and Technology: Information
Systems
▪
BS in Nursing
▪
▪
MBA
MBA in Health Services Administration
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Open SUNY benefits all campuses, with
degrees powered by Open SUNY +
receiving additional supports
Campus goals
All campuses receive some benefits
from Open SUNY…
…with Degrees powered by Open SUNY +
receiving additional supports
Highlighted
Attracting
students
Developing
programs and
institutional
capability
Supporting
faculty
Enhancing
student
experience and
completion
OpenSUNY.edu
navigator
Online
Engagement:
readiness
Potential
assessment
students
OpenSUNY.edu
navigator
Engagement:
Potential
students
Priority
Open SUNY Identification Institutional
infrastructure & verification pathways &
readiness
Competency Community
development of practice
Research
&
innovation
Open SUNY
Learning
Commons
Institutional
pathways &
readiness
24/7 service
desk
Course
supports
Focused
support
Experiential
learning
Experiential
learning
Student
concierge
24/7 service
desk
Online
academic
tutoring
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Why Open SUNY?
What is Open SUNY?
What was the path to design Open SUNY?
How can Open SUNY support faculty?
What is the path ahead?
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Open SUNY builds on a 20-year track record of
introducing innovative ideas, testing and scaling them,
and making them mainstream
1994: Initiated system-wide
asynchronous learning
network with grants from
Sloan Foundation
2010: Power of
SUNY &
Innovative
Instruction
Transformation
Team
1995: Launched the first online
multi-institutional Learning
Management System that scaled
to support 40+ institutions
1996: Launched
systematic system-wide
online faculty
development and online
course design processes
2000: SUNY’s SLN became the
second-largest asynchronous
learning network in the country
2011: SUNY online students passed
the 85K mark. Chancellor’s Advisory
Committee on Online Education (part
of Getting Down to Business Initiative)
2012: Online faculty developed
through SLN surpassed 5,000
mark, along with thousands
more developed by campuses
2013: Open SUNY
launch challenge,
State of University
address
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Open SUNY is being shaped through a rich set of inputs
including extensive cross-system involvement
Cross-system teams
and extensive
engagement efforts
Student and
prospective
student
perspectives
and insights
Open SUNY
Rich history and
experience of SUNY
institutions in onlineenabled learning
Insights
from
employers
and the
higher
education
industry
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Representatives from across SUNY have been broadly
involved in designing and implementing Open SUNY
Translate Open SUNY
vision into detailed
design
Jul – Sept 2013
Prepare for January
2014 introduction of
Open SUNY
Oct 2013 – Jan 2014
Four groups, with over 20 representatives
from different roles and sectors in SUNY
▪ Provost Open SUNY Advisory Committee
▪ Student experience working group
▪ Integrated business case working group
▪ Academics and curricula working group
Prepare to launch
Open SUNY at scale
in September 2014
Feb – Sept 2014
Continue innovating
and improving on
Open SUNY
Oct 2014 and beyond
Over a dozen groups, with over 60 representatives from
different roles and sectors in SUNY
▪ Provost Open SUNY Advisory Committee
▪ Academics and curricula working group
▪ Student supports project management teams
▪ Student supports functional experts
▪ Faculty supports project management teams
▪ Faculty supports functional teams
▪ Faculty supports functional experts
▪ Open SUNY partnership functional team
▪ Delivery unit project management team
▪ Delivery unit functional teams
▪ Six campus teams
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Why Open SUNY?
What is Open SUNY?
What was the path to design Open SUNY?
How can Open SUNY support faculty?
What is the path ahead?
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FACULTY SUPPORTS
The Open SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence
will support Fellows with research, competency
development, course support, and community
Open SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence
Research &
A innovation
Research & innovation unit
within the center that
supports research and
experimentation in
teaching through:
▪ Guiding research
agenda
▪ Awarding funding
▪ Documenting and
publicizing findings
▪ Facilitating connections
and collaboration
Competency
B development
Comprehensive training
taught by faculty
experienced in online
education and delivered
through workshops,
webinars, and graduatelevel certified courses,
covering:
▪ Pedagogical
approaches
▪ LMS platforms
▪ Education technologies
C Course support
Support through course
development and delivery,
provided by a team of:
▪ Expert peers acting as
instructional design
coaches
▪ Content discovery
specialists to help
discover content
▪ Multi-media specialists
to help create content
Community of
D practice
A community of peers with
strong interconnections
enabled by:
▪ Online forums powered
by Learning Commons
▪ Regular calls, webinars,
and workshops hosted
by the center
▪ Annual conferences
hosted by research &
innovation and
competency
development
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FACULTY SUPPORTS
A Research and Innovation will be guided by an
Innovative Instruction Research Council composed
of members from across SUNY
A new Innovative Instruction Research Council, chaired by the SUNY Vice Chancellor and Provost, will help articulate a
SUNY-wide innovative instruction research focus and foster collaborative projects that benefit all campuses
Identification of pedagogical trends
and innovations
Facilitation of
campus-based
contributions
Identification
of barriers to
instructional
collaboration
Innovative
Instruction
Research
Council
Support for
scholarship and
communities of
practice
Dissemination of
findings and
identification
of scale-up
opportunities
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FACULTY SUPPORTS
B A comprehensive set of trainings designed around
faculty needs will provide competency development
opportunities
New development opportunities
Building on existing faculty development format and structure
Best-practice structures and
formats for core training sets, with
each set targeting a unique faculty /
course development model.
Training content packaged for
delivery by experts across SUNY.
Core online
competency
development
Opportunities provided to interested
faculty to gain accredited1 certification
in online teaching and / or instructional
design, with credits awarded for
previously received training
Online
pedagogy
certification
Fundamentals of
online teaching &
learning
Online-delivered fundamental
resources for faculty interested in
online education; examples include:
▪ Is online education right for me?
▪ How does online education differ
from traditional education?
1. Accreditation provided through a partner campus
Advanced
online
competency
development
Optional courses and workshops
available on advanced topics, such as
subject-specific pedagogies, taught
through workshops and credited
courses1
Online
teaching
certification
Instructional
design
certification
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FACULTY SUPPORTS
C Course development support is formalized through a
“course development team” that brings together the
required resources
Course development1
Course delivery
Campus director / dean of online
learning
Center course support service
2
coordinator
1
Continuous improvement
• Close collaboration between center and campus
staff and support teams
Course development team
3
Teaching
Faculty
5
Multimedia
specialist
20%
4 Expert
ID or
faculty
20%
6 Librarian
(content
discovery)
20%
7 24/7 help desk
• In addition to the faculty, the team includes:
• Expert instructional designer or faculty with
instructional design expertise
• Multi-media specialist
• Librarian with content discovery expertise
• 4-month effort to enhance or develop a course
• 24/7 help desk provided to help with technical issues
1. The model will apply in most cases excepting those where the Teaching Faculty is itself an Expert in instructional design
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FACULTY SUPPORTS
D The center fosters a community of practice
through explicit actions, as well as through
research, teaching, and support networks
Learning Commons
Communication
▪ An online community
enabled through SUNY
Learning Commons, where
members can create profiles,
connect, share documents,
ask questions, and get advice
on a wide range of issues
Conferences, webinars & workshops
▪ Regular research and
training events such as
conferences, webinars and
workshops designed around
the various roles and
member interests to
encourage development of
community
▪ COTE will keep members
▪
fully informed of its services
and future road-map, latest
events as well as relevant
internal and external news
Information will be delivered
through the website and
through the Commons portal
Inter-campus research and support networks
▪ Research collaborations
▪
between campuses will be
encouraged and prioritized
Course development support
will aim to foster intercampus connections1
within subject areas to
enhance system community
1 Inter-campus Instructional Designers will be assigned based on feasibility of resourcing and campus agreements
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FACULTY SUPPORTS
D
Faculty can aspire to roles in the community that
align with their interests and needs in online
education
“Innovator
and/or
researcher
“Exemplar,
coach, and
mentor”
“Interested in
online-enabled
education”
“Experienced
online
practitioner”
1 An instructional design role fulfilled by instructional designers and faculty with the right expertise
“Expert
instructional
designer1”
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FACULTY SUPPORTS
To learn more about the Open SUNY faculty center and
to stay informed about new developments regarding
Open SUNY faculty supports, please visit the website,
http://commons.suny.edu/facultycenter
1 Visit the site to learn more
about the center and stay
informed
2 Sign up to join the
community of practice–or
share with your faculty
colleagues
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Why Open SUNY?
What is Open SUNY?
What was the path to design Open SUNY?
How can Open SUNY support faculty?
What is the path ahead?
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Open SUNY was introduced in January, with
a launch at scale in September
Translate Open SUNY
vision into detailed
design
Jul – Sept 2013
Prepare for January
2014 introduction of
Open SUNY
Oct 2013 – Jan 2014
Prepare to launch
Open SUNY at scale
in September 2014
Feb – Sept 2014
Continue innovating
and improving on
Open SUNY
Oct 2014 and beyond
January 2014
Introduce Open SUNY to the world and showcase its core principles
In January, Open SUNY was introduced with…
▪ Limited release of high-needs Open SUNY-powered degrees, with dedicated student
concierges, guaranteed experiential learning, and dedicated course refresh teams
▪ Website and online degree / course navigator
▪ 24/7 customer service hotline and online tutoring
▪ Establishment of a formal SUNY-wide ecosystem for promoting excellence in online
teaching and learning
▪ Initial faculty and IDs designated to fill roles in faculty community
▪ An announcement in anticipation of formal launch in September
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The path ahead involves you…
How to get involved
Learn more about Open SUNY!
Engage in a dialogue and share
your input
Sign-up for the community of
practice
Nominate a degree to become
powered by Open SUNY +
Consider launching a new
online-enabled program
Apply for an Innovative
Instruction Technology Grant
Description
▪ Open SUNY main website: http://www.open.suny.edu
▪ Open SUNY informational site: http://commons.suny.edu/opensuny
▪ Open SUNY faculty center: http://commons.suny.edu/facultycenter
▪ Engage your organization in a dialogue about Open SUNY and
▪
how online-enabled education can support your mission and goals
Share your ideas and input at http://commons.suny.edu/opensuny
▪ Sign up, as a faculty member or instructional designer, to join the
community of practice at http://commons.suny.edu/facultycenter
▪ Nominate a program you work with to become powered by Open
SUNY + in an upcoming application round
▪ Think about bringing a new degree or certificate program online,
or creating an online-enabled version of any new program you launch
▪ Learn more about and apply for an innovative instruction
technology grant at http://commons.suny.edu/iitg
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