Transcript MCCVLC – Providing Educational Access, Anytime, Anywhere Appropriations Subcommittee Presentation March 11, 2013 St. Clair County Community College.

MCCVLC – Providing
Educational Access,
Anytime, Anywhere
Appropriations Subcommittee Presentation
March 11, 2013
St. Clair County Community College
The Michigan Community College Virtual Learning
Collaborative is a project which allows students
from anywhere in Michigan to take any one of the
over 2100 online courses from the on-line catalog;
courses which may be offered by one of the 26
“Provider” community colleges…
with the support of their “Home” college.
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MCCA Statewide Community College
Services Task Force (1996)
◦ 50% Area of State and 20% of Population
underserved
◦ Access – a financial, academic, and geographic
hallmark of community colleges
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Focus on the learner and student support
services required in a virtual environment
NOT a 29th community college
Low overhead/staffing
Increase options for learners
“To connect the teaching and student support
capacity of participating Michigan
community colleges so that learners and
clients can access affordable, high-quality
learning opportunities whenever and
wherever desired.”
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Instruction from provider college
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Students maintain strong association
with the home college
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Support services
Transcripts
Library
Test proctoring
Financial Aid
The
Model
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http://vcampus.mccvlc.org
Are You Ready?
◦ Are You Ready for Online Learning?
◦ Time Management
◦ Technology Requirements
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Course Catalog
Degrees
Help Center
Enroll in Courses
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MCCA Board of Directors - policy
North Central Association – Higher
Learning Commission - accreditation
MCCVLC Advisory Council –
operational advisement
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Memorandum of Understanding
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Articulation agreement
Financial Aid consortium agreement
Common tuition
Revenue sharing
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Professional Development
Resume Bank
Quality Course Assurance Program
Accessibility Resources – Project GOALS
Virtual Simulations
Online Teacher Certification Courses
Membership Surveys
State Authorization Project
MCCVLC – HLC Accreditation Project
Grants for Program Development/Student
Services
‘Test the Water’ Pilot Projects
Collaborative Purchases
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Issues with current model:
 Built around institutions and not the students
 Serves as a last option for getting a course
 Greater competition from outside of state
 Identifiable unmet need
 Low institutional incentive for new online
offerings
 The name, Michigan Community College Virtual
Learning Collaborative, is obscure - students
don’t know what it means.
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Outcomes – defined to provide value
for students and member colleges
 Quality – Student focused
 Collaboration – Better resource
management
 Market Share – Move to complete
degree/certificate programs, addressing
unmet need
Michigan Colleges
Online
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Course Aggregator –
◦ provides students with real time
course availability on the
MCCVLC website within their
home college online
registration
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Digital Credential Pathway –
◦ provides the student with
information on what courses to
take and when, based on what
courses already taken and what
credential is desired.
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Immediate Feedback –
◦ Data reporting to colleges on
specific courses/programs that
have the highest demand and/or
requests through MCCVLC.
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Michigan Colleges Online Repository –
◦ An open library of digital assets for
member institutions with short learning
activities, videos, assessments, open
textbooks or full courses.
◦ Faculty can adopt, revise as they wish.
◦ Uses digital assets developed by faculty
willing to share their work.
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Improved Student Support –
◦ Provide students with an early alert system to
support successful completion of the course.
◦ Create a collaborative student advisement portal
to support individual colleges.
◦ Streamline process for students needing financial
aid for virtual courses.
◦ Use student feedback to streamline student
support.
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Marketing –
◦ Focus marketing plan towards untapped clients
such as active-duty military and veterans, industry
credentialing, dual enrollment, and international
students.
◦ Re-branding to be more student oriented rather
than institution based.
Course Aggregator/Infrastructure
Hardware
Software Development (Aggregator for courses, digital credential pathway,
revised online registration system, analytics program,
integration costs)
$50,000
$550,000
Collaborative Repository
Hardware
$20,000
Software
$60,000
Content Development
$420,00
$1,100,000
St. Clair County Community College
PSY 220 – Life Span Developmental
Psychology
Ronda Edwards
Executive Director – MCCVLC
[email protected]
www.vcampus.mccvlc.org