ronald rosati , provost david starrett , dean willie redmond, faculty fellow
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Cross-Institutional Collaboration in Course Design and Delivery: Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri. Ronald Rosati , Provost David Starrett , Dean Willie Redmond, Faculty Fellow. Missouri. 67 Institutions of higher education Thirteen 4-year public institutions - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Southeast Missouri State University30-Jul-11
Cross-Institutional Collaboration in Course Design and Delivery:
Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri
Ronald Rosati, Provost
David Starrett, Dean
Willie Redmond, Faculty Fellow
Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri
230-Jul-11
Missouri
•67 Institutions of higher education
•Thirteen 4-year public institutions
•Pressures•Higher education funding cuts• Shifts in demographics• Providing access to higher education• Changing state of higher education•New technologies• Student expectations
Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri
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Solutions
•State-wide collaborations• State-wide Course Redesign• NCAT Course Redesign to develop courses useable by all institutions
•Blended Learning• AASCU-University of Central Florida-Next Generation Learning Challenges grant to develop blended courses and materials available to all institutions in the collaboration and the state
• Collaborative Curriculum • Collaboration to deliver courses to students at multiple campuses to provide access to course and degree programs that are facing enrollment/resource challenges
Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri
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Course Redesign
•National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT)•www.theNCAT.org
•Course Redesign:•Redesign courses to create efficiencies• Emphasize active learning•Use technology to improve student learning outcomes•Rely on readily available interactive software•Automate course components e.g., homework, quizzes, exams•Replace single mode instruction with differentiated personnel strategies
Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri
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State-wide Course Redesign
•Each of the 13 public 4-year institutions is developing one redesigned course as part of the state-wide initiative
•Courses will be housed on centralized site accessible to all 13 institutions
•Most courses will follow the replacement model (blended)
Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri
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State-wide Course Redesign
•Funding:•Governor’s office•Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) grant• Contribution from each of the 13 campuses
•Campuses providing additional internal support for the Course Redesign initiative
Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri
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Process
•Each campus proposed one or more courses.
•NCAT reviewed courses and is providing feedback to the 13 CAOs
•CAOs will select one course from each campus to go through the NCAT redesign program
•Courses represent high enrollment undergraduate courses, in many cases general education courses
Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri
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Administration
•University of Missouri System manages the initiative
•NCAT established web site for the program:
http://www.thencat.org/States/MO.html
•Campuses communicate and share thru email, physical meetings and conference call/webinars
Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri
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Timeline
•Project initiated in August 2010 in response to challenge from Governor
•State-wide meeting in October 2010 kicked off the process
•Series of meetings in early 2011 facilitated by NCAT began the course proposal process
•Courses will be developed fall 2010 with pilot implementation in spring 2012 and full implementation Fall 2012
Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri
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Outcomes
•Thirteen courses will be redesigned following the NCAT model
•Courses will be made available to other campuses in the collaboration to be used
• Institutions don’t need to develop their own versions; shared courses reduce the redundancy across campuses in redesigning courses
•Campuses are seeing Course Redesign occurring outside the formalized process yielding efficiencies and increased student learning outcomes
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Blended Learning
•Courses with face-to-face and online components and class meetings
•Provides advantages of F2F and online learning in single course
•Provides greater access and flexibility in scheduling for students
•Takes advantage of online resources including textbook publisher course sites and materials, open courseware, courses packs and learning object repositories
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Next Generation Learning Challenges http://nextgenlearning.org
•Wave I Challenge:•Building Blocks for College Completion• Open Core Courseware• Blended Learning• Deeper Learning• Learner Analytics
•Partnership, focused on blended learning:•ASSCU•University of Central Florida• 20 institutions (6 in Missouri)
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Missouri
•Now a seven institution collaboration
•Blended English Composition course
•Target = low income, under age 26 (NGLC target)
•The seven institutions will develop a common online course or course components
•Each campus will teach a redesigned composition course utilizing the common online materials blended with face-to-face meetings
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Process
•UCF is providing training and support •Blended Learning toolkits http ://groupspaces . com/Blended• Training courses:• General blended learning• English Composition• College Algebra
•English Composition faculty from each of the seven campuses are currently attending the online composition and general blended training courses
Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri
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Process
•Campuses meeting with each other via email, conference call and physical meetings
•Online component will utilize materials from toolkits, existing online textbook publisher materials and other online resources
•Campuses will develop a course specific to their campus utilizing materials from the common online component mixed with face-to-face meeting learning activities
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Timeline
•Grant received in spring 2011
•Set up occurring over summer 2011• Identifying instructors• IRB requirements
•Faculty training occurring summer/early fall 2011
•Course development fall 2011
•Course pilot spring 2011
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Outcomes
•Single common online component of English Composition course developed
•Blended composition course provides advantages of flexibility and learning through two modes•Staff and faculty on each campus gain expertese in blended learning which can apply to other courses•Consistent content of composition courses across campuses in the collaboration
“Collaborative Curriculum” or “Distributed Department”
Agenda
1. Describe general concept. What is it? Why do it?
2. Explain how it works.
3. Review examples of successful implementation.
4. Describe methods for successful involvement.
5. Provided an opportunity to initiate involvement
What Do We Mean by Collaboration
“Distributed Department” Multiple institutions… Contributing courses… To offer common components of a unique degree
How it works, in summary: A course is offered by one university, via distance education, to all
the partners Students enroll only at their home University No tuition or credits are exchanged among institutions Reciprocity is expected among partners
What We are Not Discussing
Articulation Agreements
2+2 Agreements
Transfer Agreements
Forming a New Collaboration
Why form a collaboration?:1. Improve student learning, academic quality
Use the most expert faculty in the collaboration
2. Expand breadth of offerings Teach low-enrolled courses economically Expand disciplines offered at each university Offer more topics within disciplines
Issues to Consider
Tuition income share - course originator share options: None or state appropriation component
Utilization of technology Webinar, on-line, blended, video networks
Equal contribution from, and benefit to, all partners
Transcripts, financial aid, etc. Access to LMS Calendar
Issues to Consider
Disciplinary areas of interest Low demand but high importance Lab vs. lecture courses Area of local expertise
Assignment of courses to specific institutions
Syllabi details, content of courses
Accreditation issues
Models to Consider
Learn from existing, successful models
If possible, consider joining existing consortia
Texas Electronic Coalition for Physics
Characteristics: Published schedule No tuition share Extensive documentation:
MOU, course equivalencies, teaching workload agreement, Bylaws explaining all details of coalition.
Regular coalition meetings 10 years of successful operation
Physics: http://physics.tamuk.edu/tecp/
Texas Family and Consumer Sciences Alliance
Characteristics: Sending institution receives state appropriation, receiving institution
keeps local tuition Primary mode of delivery: Trans-Texas Video Network
http://www.fcsalliance.org/
Tennessee Board of Regents
The Regents Online Campus Collaborative 6 universities, 13 community colleges and 27 technology centers
38,000 students attended classes in 2010
Closely administered through strong centralized system
http://www.rodp.org/
Excellent training materials: http://www.rodp.org/faculty/additional-faculty-resources
Other Examples:
Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance A multi-state alliance offering fully online programs in human sciences (primarily)
and agriculture Extensive documentation http://hsidea.org/
Cooperative Educational Leadership Program Collaboration to offer an UMC degree with support from multiple institutions:
UMC, UCM, MSU, NWMS, SEMO http://edd.missouri.edu/
The Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP) Send students to other institutions for degrees not offered at the home institution:
http://www.mhec.org/MidwestStudentExchangeProgram
The Missouri Example
Internal and external motivators
Survey to identify priorities
Pilot course offered Spring 2011
Seven courses offered Fall 2011
Initiative website: http://cstl.semo.edu/mace/
Survey results
Foreign languages -- Chinese 87.5% 7 Economics 62.5% 5 Physics 62.5% 5 Foreign languages -- Arabic 50.0% 4 Foreign languages -- French 50.0% 4 Foreign languages -- German 37.5% 3 History 25.0% 2 Philosophy 25.0% 2 Special-education 12.5% 1 Computer science 12.5% 1 Foreign languages -- Spanish 0.0% 0
“Please indicate which disciplines would most likely be offered collaboratively between your institution and another institution in Missouri:”
Core principles for the development of Collaborative Programs
Students pay tuition only at their home institutions.
Students register at their home institution. No credit transfer.
Provider institutions provide easy access to their technology infrastructure.
Instructors deliver grades to instructor-of-record at home institutions.
Courses follow the calendar of the provider institution.
A committee of faculty representatives determine course details, quality control and course ownership.
Schedule of course offerings
Program Member Universities Courses Scheduled (tentative) Statewide ContactCourse Name Source
EconomicsUniversity of Central Missouri (UCM)
Northwest Missouri State University (NW)Southeast Missouri State University (SE)
Sports Economics (F-2011) UCM
Willie [email protected]
Labor Economics (F-2011) NWInternational Economics
(F-2011) SE
Econometrics (S-2012) UCMMoney, Credit & Banking
(S-2012) NW
Comparative Economics (S-2012) SE
Foreign Languages
University of Central MissouriMissouri Western State University (MW)
Missouri State University (MSU)Southeast Missouri State University
Methods for Foreign Language Teachers (S-2011) UCM
Mike [email protected]
Intermediate French Composition (F-2011) MW
German – Special Topics: Media (F-2011) UCM
Physics
Missouri Science & Technology Univ. (MST) Truman State University
Southeast Missouri State University Missouri Southern University
Missouri State University
Nanostructures: Intro. (F-2011) MST Bernard Feldman
[email protected] Pfeifer
[email protected] (S-2012)Dave Probst SE
Logistics to operationalize collaboration
Develop & sign MOU
Develop and publish operating principles
Develop collaboration website
Transfer ownership to departmental committees
Keep it alive!
Next Steps at Today’s Conference
Join with like-minded partners
Select collaboration model
Complete collaboration form to identify: courses, timelines, contact information, group leader
Report back to larger group
Follow-up after returning home
Develop your action plan
Questions, logistics….