Campus Pack and Baldwin-Wallace College:

Encouraging student educational goal planning and facilitating life-long learning

Derek Hamner, Learning Objects, Inc.John DiGennaro, Baldwin-Wallace College

Be THAT: B-W Action Plans

• College 101 course teaches students how to plan, create, reflect, collaborate and share action plans.

• Advisors create an environment for students to manage their own learning, discuss and give feedback on progress.

• Students set goals and plan across their 4 years, presenting achievements.

• Supports student retention leading to graduation and Be THAT!

Marcos RiveraDirector Student Success Initiatives

“First year students are more than ever arriving to college with diverse learning styles and needs for effective learning. Coming out of high school, there are many ways a student can be overwhelmed by the plethora of opportunities college life offers. Time management and understanding the importance of prioritizing is critical to their success in the first term and beyond- particularly if a student is a first-generation college student.”

Results• Students at Baldwin-Wallace with Action Plans:

15% improvement in retention rates• Over 100 additional students were retained over the 5 year

period (2005-2010)• Of the 6 Carnegie Class schools surveyed, Baldwin-Wallace

students’ responded having higher overall satisfaction with Baldwin-Wallace College and higher rates of out-of-class engagement

• Greater numbers of students are earning 3.0 GPA or higher

2005 2006 2007 2008 200966.0%68.0%70.0%72.0%74.0%76.0%78.0%80.0%82.0%84.0%86.0%

Retention rate of at-risk freshmanImplementation of the B-W Action Plan using Campus Pack has lead to a 15% increase in retention of at-risk freshman.

Source: Baldwin-Wallace College

How We Got There…•Studen

ts add goals and accomplishments to their plan and advisers needed a straightforward way to navigate and view their plan.

B-W Integrates Liberal Arts with Career

Preparation

•Campus Pack provides every user a portfolio enabling students, instructors, and advisors to share their work, both inside and outside the campus community.

Students Needed Structure, Guidance and

Mentoring

•Students can create wikis, blogs, journals, and podcasts to develop research, publish interactive presentations, and showcase interests and achievements.

Students Are Put In Charge of Their Own Goals and Learning

Why Campus Pack…

Accessibility• The process encourages students

to identify goals.• Students’ Action plans are portfolios

that help them document learning.• Action Plans facilitate collaboration

and access.• This collaboration leads to a

stimulation of ideas.• Advisors have access to the

portfolios with several ways to provide feedback

Quality• Students use Campus Pack to

organize their accomplishments.• Students highlight their best work,

summarize academic goals and plans of study, capture cross-cultural experiences, and assess career readiness.

• They integrate essays, poetry, original artwork, annotated resumes, and a range of projects.

Impact 1: Be THAT Impact 2: Be REAL

Impact 3: Be CURIOUS

Organizational Learning

Interoperability• Integrates with many LMSs out of

the box (Bb, D2L, eCollege, Moodle)

• Uses Basic Learning Tool Interoperability (BLTI) to allow other tools to plug in to the system

• Integrates with institution’s LDAP server and displays content in Facebook

• Campus Pack has been certified as both a BLTI producer and BLTI consumer

Innovation• Baldwin-Wallace students’

performance improved, GPAs and retention increased

• By encouraging students to collect thoughts, goals, questions, ideas, the B-W Action Plans empower students to better manage their own learning.

• Alumni have volunteered to be career mentors to share their success and bring full circle the lesson of life-long learning.

Impact 4: Be CONNECTED

Impact 5: Be SUCCESSFUL

“What I hope to accomplish during my time at B-W is to gain knowledge in both my field of study and of the world around me. I hope to enforce the skills that I already possess and master new ones that will be beneficial to me in the future. ”

B-W Student

Thank You

• Derek Hamner, CEO, Learning Objects, Inc.– dhamner@learningobjects.com

• John DiGennaro, Director of Educational Technology, Baldwin-Wallace College– jdigenna@bw.edu