association keynote (march, 2009)

Strategic Technology PlanRethinking Technology, Digital

Knowledge, and Turf in Challenging Budget Times

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Dr. Cable GreeneLearning Director

Is Globalization Real? seamless connection

of people, resources & knowledge

digitization of content mobile, personal global platform for

collaboration outsourcing Anyone notice our

global economy?

"According to an IBM study, by 2010, the amount of digital information in the world will double every 11 hours."

http://elearning101.org

And we can makeall of our “digital stuff”available toall people…and most of itwill get used...by someone.

http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart

We All Get to Participate

My Point?

A Digital, Networked World Changes the Rules

of the Game

Technology TransformationTask Force

Creating a roadmap for how our system needs to leverage 21st century technologies to support student achievement.

Conversation went something like this: Video

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Good news… we have a plan.

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http://techplan.sbctc.edu

Strategy I: Teaching and Learning

Strategy II: Online Student Services

Strategy III: Professional Development and Change Management

Strategy IV: Business Intelligence & Administrative Systems

Strategy V: Treat information technology as a centrally funded, baseline service in the system budget.

Five strategies for transformation

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Recommendations / Big Ideas Access for all students and all colleges Cost Savings

licenses, hosting, help desk, professional development transaction costs: integration, RFPs, vendor relationships

Value Proposition Don’t focus local resources (people, money, time) on commodity

technology services Use best solutions wherever they may be

Video: (48 hours ago…Duke followed suit)

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IT into “The Cloud”

Rule of 1: do it once Rule of 0: don’t do it

Don’t build software, don’t host servers Retain local branding and admin control

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Recommendations / Big Ideas Have a P-20 conversation

New IT Governance “CIS” moved to SBCTC Align decision making, policy and funding

Open Educational Resources Use others’ and share our digital content Move toward open textbooks

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Work Completed: System Solutions Elluminate

1,361 faculty & staff accounts 954 rooms online 990 meetings have taken place unlimited license, hosting, training

WashingtonOnline “Angel” LOR, sharing courses, ePortfolio

24/7 virtual library reference

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Work Completed

Significantly Reduced

WashingtonOnline Technology Fee

Old WAOL Technology Fee: $8 / credit / student / course

New WAOL Technology Fee: $4 / user / quarter Unlimited use: one or more ANGEL courses, ePortfolios

and/or collaboration spaces Old: Three 5-credit courses in WAOL was $120 New: Three (or more) 5-credit courses in WAOL is $4

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Ongoing Online Learning Growth

Over 83,000 students learn online each year

eLearning enrollments up more than 23% (Fall 07 – Fall 08)

Growth projections: by 2019, 51% or 78,344 of system FTE will be enrolled in online or hybrid courses

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Ongoing Online Learning Growth

45% of all CTC graduates earn 15 or more credits online or hybrid

23 colleges offer 86 different degrees and certificates online

16 colleges offer an AA degree online Community and Technical Colleges

teach over 80+% of all online FTE in WA higher education

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Growth in Online CoursesAnnualized FTE: 1998-2011

1998-2008 growth = 1,818%

Growth in Online CoursesAnnualized Headcount: 1998-2011

1998-2008 growth = 1,136%

Why do these growth curves

matter?

Educate More Citizens

HECB Master Plan I. Raise educational attainment to

create prosperity, opportunity Policy Goal: Increase the total number of

degrees and certificates produced annually to achieve Global Challenge State benchmarks.

By 2018, raise mid-level degrees and certificates to 36,200 annually, an increase of 9,400 degrees annually.

2008 Online + Hybrid LearningGas / Carbon Savings

1.9M round trips avoided = reduced traffic

congestion

2.1M gallons of gas saved

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Presidents Understandthe Need to Change

Presidents voted unanimously to support the Strategic Technology Plan

 WACTC Technology Committee track implementation of the Strategic

Technology Plan: “Score Card” communicate system solutions

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Funding System Solutions is the Greatest Challenge

Leverage the buying power of entire system Cost effective to use common systems and

support services Large travel and per diem offsets using

technology 1 ½ day “in-person” System Meeting

= $10K (give or take $3K)

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What is Next for WashingtonOnline? Colleges looking at ANGEL (lower tech fee)

new capability to share content system-wide Use existing Pooled Enrollment (see Connie)

In bad budget times – colleges close programs. How will you deliver your students the courses they need? How do we serve WA students – not just your district’s students?

Enrolling College – keeps all FTE & Tuition Teaching College – gets $50/credit hour/student Student gets the course she needs! WashingtonOnline facilitates – takes no $

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Definition of OER

Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.

Open Educational Resources

Open Textbooks Open Courses Open Licensing Consider One high enrollment Course:

English Composition I 37,226 enrollments / year X $100 textbook = $3.7 Million + (cost to students)

What if we looked at 200 courses?

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Why do we Need Open Textbooks?

2005 GAO report: College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the last two decades

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf

May, 2007: Dept of Ed.

http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf

Community College Consortiumfor Open Educational Resources

Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks

in community college courses

cccoer.wordpress.com

Community CollegeOpen Textbook Project Goal

Identify, organize, and support the production and use of high quality, accessible and culturally relevant Open

Textbooks for community college students

Reduce the cost of

textbooks!

Comparison of Statistics Textbooks

Publisher: Wiley Open: Connexions & QOOP

Downloadable version:

$77.50

Downloadable & online versions:

FREE

Printed bound version:

$141.95 new

$110.25 used

Printed bound version:

$31.98 new

Introductory Statistics by MannTable of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Organizing and Graphing Data Chapter 3 Numerical Descriptive Measures Chapter 4 Probability Chapter 5 Discrete Random Variables and Their Probability Distributions Chapter 6 Continuous Random Variables and the Normal Distribution Chapter 7 Sampling Distributions Chapter 8 Estimation of the Mean and Proportion Chapter 9 Hypothesis Tests About the Mean and Proportion Chapter 10 Estimation and Hypothesis Testing: Two Populations Chapter 11 Chi-Square Tests Chapter 12 Analysis of Variance Chapter 13 Simple Linear Regression Chapter 14 Multiple Regression Chapter 15 Nonparametric Methods1

© 2007, 720 pagesRequired textbook for Math 12 at Cabrillo College

Collaborative Statistics by Illowsky and Dean

Table of Contents

1. Sampling and Data 2. Descriptive Statistics 3. Probability Topics 4. Discrete Random Variables 5. Continuous Random Variables 6. The Normal Distribution 7. The Central Limit Theorem 8. Confidence Intervals 9. Hypothesis Testing: Single Mean and Single Proportion10. Hypothesis Testing: Two Means, Paired Data, Two Proportions11. The Chi-Square Distribution12. Linear Regression and Correlation13. F Distribution and ANOVA

© 2008, 600 pagesRequired textbook for Math 10 at De Anza College

Click the Green Check if your college teaches

“Introductory Statistics”

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General Physics

600 pages

New $179.00 

Used

$125.00  

Click the Green Check if your college teaches “Introductory Physics”

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Click the Green Check if your college teaches Elementary Algebra

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Do you want to go through the rest of your high enrollment courses?

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Challenges It’s Different

Limited availability of high quality and comprehensive learning materials in some disciplines

Inadequate access to high-speed Internet by some students

Challenges Compliance with accessibility requirements

Printing and computer lab demands on campus by students

Coordination with campus bookstores

Open Textbook Adoption

Locate open textbooks for consideration

Evaluate each textbook for selection

Customize, remix, and organize selected textbook

Disseminate in print and digital formats

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Locate Open Textbooksfor Consideration

MERLOT

Connexions

Wikibooks

OER Commons

Global Text Project

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Evaluate Each Textbook Quality Accessibility Cultural relevance Currency Authority of Source Reading level Depth and scope Quality and

Accuracy Articulation

Customize, Remix, and Organize

Disseminate Open Textbooks Digital formats

Printed format

Student (DIY) – printing?

Campus bookstore

Campus print-shop services

Proprietary services

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Faculty don’t have the time to do all of that!

We’ll have to collectively figure out how to make it as easy, for faculty, as commercial publishers’ salespeople do.

Bookstores Role with OER?

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Bookstores are perfectly positioned to be the College’s clearinghouse for printed open educational resources. print-on-demand open textbooks & OER course

packs? Students want printed options

Have location and are tightly networked into IT and fiscal campus operations.

Crazy Big Ideas…. Washington public P-20 education institutions

that receive state funding could share all instructional digital resources including: courses, textbooks and library resources with all other Washington public P-20 education institutions.

WA public P-20 education institutions could use common teaching & learning, student services, and administrative technologies and support services.

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We must get rid of our “not invented here” attitude regarding others’ content move to: "proudly borrowed from there"

Content is not a strategic advantage

Nor can we (or our students) afford it

Hey Higher Education!

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Higher Education’s Future Role?“I’ve been trying to gain a better sense of the role universities will play in society in the future. At one point, we thought content was the value point of universities. Wrong. MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative changed that. Ok, then the interaction with faculty is the value point. And wrong again. Open communication and collaboration in online environments with networks of peers and experts gave us control over our interactions. Fine. Then the value point is accreditation. Yes, for now. Our ability to rate, review, comment, and provide feedback has increased with the development of the read/write web. I’m not sure how long we can build education’s value on the concept of accreditation.”

57George Siemens: blog post: explaining leads to information

Cable’s Answer… I think

Our new role (at least for now) is to be synthesizers and leverage networked IT, networked knowledge, and networked expertise… and put together high quality, cost effective learning environments that help more students get to higher levels of education.

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Slides @ http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen

Dr. Cable GreeneLearning Directorcgreen@sbctc.edu

(360) 704-4334