financial aid, correspondence, authentication…should we go on?
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Hot Topics and Accreditation Issues in Distance Education. Financial Aid, Correspondence, Authentication…Should We Go On?. Dennis Bailey-Fournier , Cabrillo College Dolores Davison, Foothill College Patricia James Hanz , Mt. San Jacinto College Danny Martino, Santiago Canyon College. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Hot Topics and Accreditation Issues in Distance Education
Financial Aid, Correspondence, Authentication…Should We Go On?
Dennis Bailey-Fournier , Cabrillo CollegeDolores Davison, Foothill College
Patricia James Hanz, Mt. San Jacinto CollegeDanny Martino, Santiago Canyon College
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In CCCs, distance learning continues to grow:•2005-06: 12.48% of total headcount (unduplicated)•2009-10: 23.54% of total headcount (unduplicated)In US, over 6 million students took at least one online class last year.•Institutions indicating ‘‘Online education is critical to the long-term strategy of my institution’’ reached its highest level in 2011 (65.5%).
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Concerns about Distance Education Federal and National Concerns◦ A few cases of significant institutional growth and transformation
triggered Congressional concerns with exploitation of institutions, students
◦ Growing amount of federal student aid funds, proportion going to private institutions and for profit institutions offering DE
◦ Financial aid fraud for which Distance Education may be particularly suited
◦ Growing number of degree mills that operate as “distance only” institutions leading to problems for transfer institutions, employers
ACCJC Web Seminar Spring 2012
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Some of the Hot Topics:
I. Recently accelerated external regulatory demands
A. Student authentication B. Last date of attendance / Title IV
II. Lack of clarity and consensus
A. Categorizing distance educationB. DE or CE? C. Whose responsibility is it?
III. Some Consequences and Questions
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Student Authentication
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Academic Integrity and Authentication
HEOA requires accreditors to require institutions “to have processes through which the institution establishes that the student who registers in a distance education course or program is the same student who participates in and completes the program and receives the academic credit.”
(emphasis added)
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Examples of Processes and Practices
1) College LMS2) Proctored assessment3) LMS log-in statement
Through the entry of my username and password I affirm that I am the student who enrolled in this course. Furthermore, I affirm that I understand and agree to follow the regulations regarding academic integrity and the use of student data as described in the Student Conduct Code that governs student rights and responsibilities. Failure to abide by the regulations may result in disciplinary action up to expulsion from the college.
4) Academic integrity in DE training5) Plagiarism detection software
Why is it important to us???
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What those looking in are looking for:
Institutions must use:a) secure log-in and password, OR proctored examinations, ORb) and/or new or other technologies c) and/or practices that are developed and effective in verifying each student’s identification
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By Knterox
Last date of attendance (LDA) & Title IV
Must document LDA and verify “regular and substantive interaction” between faculty and student
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Who is attending class?
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Make it clear to online teaching faculty that LMS statistics are not enough.
Regular Effective Contact is defined and enforced LDA policy is created and enforced that includes academic
engagement (activity). Instructors save work of the student dropped and document
when the activity stopped. Institutional definition
of Excessive Absences
Pre-emptive Solutions?
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DE or CE?
Regular Substantive (Effective)
Instructor to Student Contact
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State Definition• “Distance education means instruction in
which the instructor and student are separated by distance and interact through the assistance of communication technology.”
• Same course-quality standards• Regular, effective contact• Separate curricular review• Federal definition not much different
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Correspondence Education
• Instructional material provided by mail or electronic transmission (including examinations) to students who are separated from the instructor
• Limited interaction between student and instructor and primarily initiated by students
• A course that is typically self-paced34 C.F.R. § 602.3 (Definitions)
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So, DE and CE are Different…
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So What?
“We concluded the College was not eligible to participate in [federal financial aid] because 50% or more of its students were enrolled in correspondence courses… We recommend… require the college to return to the U.S. Department of Education the $42,362,291 in Title IV funds disbursed…”
Final Title IV Audit Report, Executive Summary
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Main Resources
• DE Coordinator• @ONE• Online Teaching Conference• Distance Education Captioning and
Transcription grant• DE webinars• ACCJC DE webinar
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http://tinyurl.com/accjcDE
For more information---
ACCJC Web Seminar: DE on the Front Burner: New Regulations, New Challenges and Accreditation
Spring 2012
http://www.onefortraining.org/coordinatorsDE Coordinators’ Web Seminar Meetings