oer and competency-based education

OER and Competency-based Education

Tom Caswell, Learning ObjectsKiri Johnson, Lord Fairfax Community College, VA

Mark Jenkins, Washington State Board Community & Technical Colleges

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Agenda

• Introductions• CCCOER Overview• Competency-based Education (CBE):

Delivering Improved Learning Outcomes• Knowledge to Work Project, LFCC• OER + CBE Business Degree, SBCTC• Q & A

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Tom CaswellDirector of Learning

EngineeringLearning Objects

Moderator: Lisa YoungFaculty Director Teaching & Learning Center, Scottsdale

CollegeCCCOER VP, Professional Development

Mark JenkinsDirector eLearning & Open Education

Washing State BoardCommunity & Technical

Colleges

Kiri JohnsonDigital OER Librarian

Lord Fairfax Community CollegeVirginia

• Expand access to high- quality open materials• Support faculty choice and development• Improve student success

Community College Consortiumfor OER (CCCOER)

http://oerconsortium.org

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250+ Colleges in 21 States & Provinces

Competency-based Education: Delivering Better Learning Outcomes

Tom CaswellDirector of Learning Engineering

Personal Introduction

What is CBE?

Competency-Based Education (CBE) reorients the educational process toward demonstrated mastery and the application of knowledge and skills in the real world.

Key CBE Features

Traditional

1. Focused more on academic knowledge and theory, rather than application

2. Learning objectives may be present on syllabus/course outline but are rarely referenced in the course

3. Assessments often compare student with each other (norm-referenced)

Competency-Based

1. Focused on the application of knowledge and skill to complex situations

2. Competency statements are mapped to each course activity and assessment item

3. Assessments measure students performance against competencies (criterion-referenced)

The Golden Triangle

Competency Mapping Example

Who Is Doing CBE?

WGU: Student Satisfaction

• Rating of entire educational experience – 16% higher than average

• Acquisition of job-related knowledge and skills – 13% higher than average

National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is a national survey that measures student engagement. In 2014, NSSE polled more than 350,000 students from more than 600 institutions.

% WGU Student Sat/VSat

WGU: Employer Satisfaction

From a 2014 Survey of 300 Employers by Harris Poll:

• 99% said that WGU graduates meet or exceed expectations; 92% said WGU graduates exceed expectations.

• 94% rated WGU graduates’ job performance as good as or better than the job performance of other graduates; 53% rated WGU graduates better than other graduates.

• 96% said that their WGU graduates were prepared for their jobs; 89% said WGU graduates were very well or extremely well prepared.

Thank you

Tom Caswellcaswell.tom@gmail.com

http://tomcaswell.com/consulting

Knowledge to Work

knowledgetowork.com

Kiri JohnsonDigital Librarian

Kiri JohnsonDigital LibrarianKnowledge to Work (K2W)Lord Fairfax Community Collegewww.knowledgetowork.com

Direct assessment competency-based education (CBE) with prior learning assessment (PLA)

Health Information Management• Associate of Applied Science in Health Information Management• Career Studies Certificate in Hospital Facility Coding

Information Systems Technology• Associate of Applied Science in Information Systems Technology• Career Studies Certificate in Cyber Security• Career Studies Certificate in Networking Specialist

Administrative Support Technology• Career Studies Certificate in Information Processing Technician• Certificate in Office Systems Assistant

Stephanie Bob Zonker Dot

Food Services Manager who damaged her shoulder through years of heavy lifting and can no longer keep up with the physical demands of her job. She wants to switch careers and work in retail management, but doesn’t have the experience that employers are looking for on her résumé. Stephanie is confident that she has the skills; she just needs to show prospective employers her abilities as a manager.

Wounded warrior and veteran who doesn’t feel very comfortable around college-aged students in a traditional classroom. He wants to prove what he already knows from his military career, not jump through hoops and spend money he doesn’t have just to get a piece of paper. He enjoys online learning, but knows he needs lots of support because he’s never taken college courses and it’s been years since he was in high school.

Zonker has been in school for eight years. He has a lot of credits, but his father is cutting him off and he needs to get a job. He wants to package up all that he’s done to show employers that he has what it takes to get and keep a day job that pays well.

Spends a lot of time playing video games and texting. Her parents don’t believe it, but she has her own game company. Dot thinks college is an obsolete concept not geared to her pace and lifestyle. She taught herself programming, but doesn’t have anything traditional on her résumé to show her skills to employers and needs a credential quickly in order to get the type of job she wants and move out on her own.

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Why OER?

Kiri Johnson, K2W Digital Librariankjohnson2@lfcc.edu(540) 868-9746

John Milam, K2W Executive Directorjmilam@lfcc.edu(540) 868-7249

OER + CBEBusiness Transfer Degree

Mark JenkinsDirector of eLearning & Open Education

Washington’sOER + CBE Degree

ProgramMark Jenkins, Director

eLearning & Open Education, SBCTC

Who We Are

• 34 colleges • Operate as a

system• 160,000+ student

FTEs annually

• Business transfer degree shared system-wide• OER content sourced and supported by Lumen Learning• Students must demonstrate mastery of explicit competencies to

receive credit• Students receive constant support based on their individual

learning needs• Learning, not time, is the determining factor

CBE Program Concept

Focusing Event: SBCTC Legislative Presentation, Jan. 2014https://app.leg.wa.gov/CMD/Handler.ashx?MethodName=getdocumentcontent&documentId=EDi-X3rydFI&att=false

Target PopulationDemographic

Shifts• Fewer 15-19 year-

olds coming up• Growth in 20-44

year-olds

Needs & Opportunities

• Nearly 1 million Washingtonians with some college, no degree

• Columbia Basin (lead)• Bellevue• Centralia• Everett• Olympic• Pierce College Ft. Steilacoom• Pierce College Puyallup• Tacoma

Pilot Colleges

Why Build as a System?Build on Existing

Assets• Strong transfer

agreements• Shared course system

(WAOL)• Shared LMS (Canvas)• Common eLearning tools• Commitment to OER• Western eTutoring

Consortium• AskWA

Optimize Shared Resources

• Share initial development costs

• Share staffing to support self-paced students

• Centralize hiring, staffing for pilot program

• Students “belong” to college where they enroll

• Developing the right staffing model to support student success in a self-paced program;

• Funding development as a system;• Keeping the cost attractive to students;• Updating and validating the curriculum.

Challenges

• Student Profile: Some college or work experience;• Advisors: “Intrusive” advisors at each college;• Completion coaches: Encourage progress; remove

barriers;• Teaching faculty: Instructors within discipline who

teach and assess.

Right People / Right Roles

Funding• SBCTC, CBC & Eight Pilot Colleges form

a consortium for start-up investment;Shared system assets for courses & technology:• WAOL shared programming; • Common learning management system• Common direct transfer agreements.

Funding & Sustainability

• Six-month terms, no ceiling on achievement;• Exclusive use of open educational resources

(OER).

Managing Student Cost

• Open courses using open educational resources and emerging mastery technology;

• Curated by teaching faculty with technical assistance from Lumen & SBCTC;

• Openly published using CC BY licensing• Commitment to continuous, evidence-based

improvement.

Open Educational Content

• Create and Refine Program level rules and policy based on pilot experience;

• Continuous improvement of alignment between OER content and assessment;

• Develop evidentiary models to represent student progress and success to system governance;

• Recruit & market internally to bring new ‘investor colleges’ to the table;

• Coordinate and disseminate shared marketing resources and best practices;

• Develop & extend workforce relationships• Scale, scale, scale

Next Steps & New Challenges

Mark Jenkins, Director, eLearning | Open EducationWashington State Board for Community & Technical Collegesmjenkins@sbctc.edu

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Contact Info:

Lisa Young: lisa.young@scottsdalecc.eduTom Caswell: caswell.tom@gmail.comKiri D. Johnson: KJohnson2@lfcc.edu

Mark Jenkins: mjenkins@sbctc.edu

Questions?