open education, moocs, & student access

Senator(retd.) Dean Florez, 20 Million Minds Foundation

Dr. Barbara Illowsky, De Anza College Dr. Michelle Pilati, Rio Hondo College

April 30, 2013

Open Education, MOOCs, & Student Access

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Your hosts:– Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director at Open

Courseware Consortium– James Glapa-Grossklag, President of CCCOER Advisory

Board; Dean, College of Canyons

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Agenda

• Community Colleges and Open Ed• Rebooting Higher Ed in California• OER and MOOCs• Academic Senate & OER council• Choosing our next webinar• Q & A

CCCOER Mission

• Promote adoption of OER to enhance teaching and learning

– Expand access to education– Support professional development– Advance community college mission

Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

200+ Community & Technical College

Why Now

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How to Get Involved?

Join the CCCOER advisory listParticipate in our community of interestAttend our free monthly webinarsVisit our website to find resources Invite us to conduct faculty trainingBecome a member of the OCWC

oerconsortium.org james.glapa-grossklag@canyons.edu

unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org

Rebooting CA Higher Education

Dean FlorezCEO, Twenty Million Minds Foundation

Former CA State Senate Majority Leader

Open Education in Classroom

Dr. Barbara IllowskyMath Instructor and open textbook co-author

Chancellor’s Office 2012-13

California Community College System

Me! • Teach online, hybrid, f2f• OER textbook: Collaborative Statistics• CVC 2002 top online course award• OCW Consortium 2013 Educator Award

(international)• Teaching MOOC “Intro to Descriptive Statistics”,

4-week, not-for-credit in January 2014

Open Educational Resources (OER)

“Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or repurposing by others.”

U.S Department of Education

OER: Saves $$$

Amazon $171.25 hardcopy Web - $0POD - $26.20 + SH

Wiley & Sons Connexions

De Anza College student savings…

for just one course:

> $1,000,000

OER: Free to Choose

• provides faculty with more choices for their courses

• allows for permission-free editing and adaptation

• promotes customization• eliminates forced publisher revisions

OER: Adoption Concerns

• Faculty awareness of OER is low• Difficulty of finding materials• Standards for quality vary• Lack of ancillaries

Exploring MOOCs

• Massive: > 1000 students

• Online: videos lectures, automated quizzes, discussions

• Open: open enrollment but NOT OER• Course: learning experience

MOOC Concerns

• Poor instruction quality• Low Completion rates: 5-15% is typical

• Learner support is minimal• Assessment for credit: costs $; in early

stages• Sustainability is unknown

Community College MOOCs for non-

credit??• Thousands of students taking basic skills &

pre-transfer level English, reading, writing, ESL and mathematics courses

• Huge subset of above population, at one time, had learned the content using taxpayer $$

• Many just need to review before taking an assessment test for placement

What if …• community college faculty develop and teach

pre-transfer level MOOCs • a large subset of the “huge subset” take

MOOCs to review content?• a VERY small subset of the “large subset of the

huge subset” complete 1 MOOC and place into 1 higher level course in just 1discipline?

Need to Review

Take MOOC

Pass MOOC

Population - pre-transfer level

placementstudents

Very small subset of the large subset of the huge

subset…• will save at least one semester to degree

completion• will save taxpayers $$• may be encouraged to take more ownership in

their education• may take more than 1 MOOC and multiply

their time savings and taxpayer savings

In other words …

• if 100,000 students take at least 1 MOOC

• if just 6% of MOOC folks complete their course

• if this 6% of MOOC folks place into 1 course higher

• then, 94% of MOOC students are FAILURES!!!

BUT …

… 6000 students have succeeded!!!!!

… and maybe will have a …

shorter time to completion?

Academic Senate

Dr. Michelle PilatiPsychology Instructor

Academic Senate President 2011-13

California Community College System

CALIFORNIA’S AGENDA FOR OPEN EDUCATION, MOOCS, AND STUDENT ACCESS

Thoughts on the implementation of SB 1052/1053

Access issues? MOOCs and the California Community Colleges

SB 1052 AND SB 1053

Establish an intersegmental OER library and a council to facilitate populating the library and ensuring its use

Members “appointed” to the California Open Education Resources Council (COERC)

Next steps Challenges

ACCESS ISSUES

Since 2008 Funding declines (“workload reduction”) Increased demand

Today Proposition 30 Recovering economy Declining access issues

ADDRESSING “ACCESS” ISSUES

Increase success Online retention and success lags behind

that of onsite Increase online success >>> Increase

access Increase access to existing courses –

online and onsite Students want access to courses, not

pathways to unit accumulation

ONLINE AS THE ACCESS ANSWER?

Presumes equal access to technology Presumes equal success Differential outcomes exacerbated in

the online environment Online investment needs to focus on

quality as a means of increasing success

MOOCS AND THE CCC

Currently: A pathway to credit for MOOCs exists: “Credit by exam”

“Traditional” MOOCs are not a replacement for credit-bearing courses

MOOOs Massive Open Online Offerings

“Courses” result in a transcripted outcome, qualify for financial aid, and are taught by qualified faculty

COURSES IN THE CCCS

Require “regular effective contact” Regulatory requirement (Title 5)

Not “correspondence courses” Necessary to qualify for financial aid Able to document last date of attendance

MOOOS AND THE CCCS

Replacement No.

Offer an alternative Pre-assessment Possible supplement A means to increase “access”?

Perhaps – increase success >>> increase access

Perhaps – high-quality content and auto-graded assessments make a SLIGHTLY larger class size manageable

MOOOS BY THE NUMBERS

“SAGE ON THE STAGE”

FINAL THOUGHTS

CCC-developed MOOOs that capture how we teach.

MOOO as a collection of the highest quality online learning objects that the state invests in and is available for use by all. (A LOOC?)

Increase access by investing in success.

Increase/simplify access to existing course offerings.

Next WebinarJune 11, 10:00 am (Pacific)

Open Education and

Competency-based LearningImage: San Francisco State University

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Contact InformationUna Daly, unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org

James Glapa-Grossklag, James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu

Dean Florez, dean@20mmf.org

Barbara Illowsky, illowskybarbara@deanza.edu

Michelle Pilati, mpilati@riohondo.edu

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