Geek Report Spring 2012Using Technology to Help Students Succeed

Bob Bramucci and Jim Gaston

Overview

District IT Update Technology and Student Success

What we’ve done What we are doing What we hope to do

Discussion

District IT Update

Major Projects Student Account Task Force MySite Refresh MAP Refresh SharePoint Perceptive Enterprise Content

Management Mobile Apps Sherpa

Project List

SharePoint > Technology and Learning Services > Information Technology > IT Projects

IT Support Request

Mobile Apps

Over 8,700 downloads

Mobile Apps Usage

Student Success

How can technology help our students succeed?

Two Sides to the Coin

Remove Barriers

AddAssistance

Reduce Friction and Remove Barriers

Online Orientation and Advisement Online Application Class Schedule Class Shopping Cart MySite Registration Book Purchase Add Permit Code (APC) Personalized Campus Map Campus Wi-Fi Blackboard Integration Mobile Apps

Assistance

MAP – Where do you want to go? Personal academic goals

Sherpa – Let us help you get there Closed class search assistance Targeted messages Important Tasks Reminders MAP Integration

MySite Refresh – Focus on what is important News Feed Calendar To-Do List Mobile

Student Success Task Force

Technology

“Today’s students use laptops, smart phones and tablets not only to communicate with friends and professors, but also to make appointments, purchase goods and services, watch movies, and do research. This is where our students spend much of their time, and we must create smart applications that make it easier for them to pursue and reach their educational goals.”

Technology

“Scaling up the use of technology is one of the few viable approaches to reach substantially more students, many of whom prefer navigating their pathway through community college in an online environment.”

“…the CCC system needs to look towards the creation of centralized student support modules that offer high interactivity with local campus and district IT and administrative systems.”

Technology

“An additional benefit to the creation and maintenance of centralized technology utilities is that doing so will create huge economies of scale for the system.”

MySite?

“Community Colleges will develop and use centralized and integrated technology, which can be accessed through campus or district web portals, to better guide students in their educational process.”

Recommendation 2.3

MAP?

“The creation of online resources that would support advisement and allow many students to self-manage their academic pathways is essential.”

Sherpa?

“(data) can be aggregated in educational data warehouses, leveraged, and used to help advise students on effective pathways through college…An example of this would be the use of analysis of past student outcomes in various courses for students at various levels of basic skills to create an advisement matrix.”

“These technological applications will generate efficiencies, but more importantly they will increase and improve communications with students by using platforms they already rely on to manage their daily lives.”

Principles

Centralization Standardization Automation

Centralization

Stronger System Office Assessment Test Database Student Support Modules Data Warehouses (e.g., K-18 +

workforce longitudinal record system)

Standardization of Policies

Policies Mandatory participation in orientation

and remediation for the non-college-ready

Declared program of study by end of 3rd term

Incentivized Enrollment Priority BOG Incentives Basic Skills in First Year Common K-14 College & Career

Readiness Standards

Standardization of Systems

Common Assessment Tests

Data-driven, student-driven scheduling

College Trending Scorecards

Student Success Scorecards

Automation (at least in part)

Assessment tests Educational Plans Educational Pathways Data Warehouses Predictive Analytics

Proposed Online Services Common college

application Electronic

transcripts Online BOG waiver Education Planning

Module Electronic Library

Catalog Electronic

Resources

Job Placement Module

Textbook Purchasing Module

Transfer Advisement Module

Gartner’s Predictions

Hype Cycle/StratTech Map 2010

Questions?

rbramucci@socccd.edu jgaston@socccd.edu