Strategic Technology PlanRethinking Technology, Digital
Knowledge, and Turf in Challenging Budget Times
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Dr. Cable GreeneLearning Director
Is Globalization Real? seamless connection
of people, resources & knowledge
digitization of content mobile, personal global platform for
collaboration outsourcing Anyone notice our
global economy?
"According to an IBM study, by 2010, the amount of digital information in the world will double every 11 hours."
http://elearning101.org
And we can makeall of our “digital stuff”available toall people…and most of itwill get used...by someone.
http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart
We All Get to Participate
My Point?
A Digital, Networked World Changes the Rules
of the Game
Technology TransformationTask Force
Creating a roadmap for how our system needs to leverage 21st century technologies to support student achievement.
Conversation went something like this: Video
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Good news… we have a plan.
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http://techplan.sbctc.edu
Strategy I: Teaching and Learning
Strategy II: Online Student Services
Strategy III: Professional Development and Change Management
Strategy IV: Business Intelligence & Administrative Systems
Strategy V: Treat information technology as a centrally funded, baseline service in the system budget.
Five strategies for transformation
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Recommendations / Big Ideas Access for all students and all colleges Cost Savings
licenses, hosting, help desk, professional development transaction costs: integration, RFPs, vendor relationships
Value Proposition Don’t focus local resources (people, money, time) on commodity
technology services Use best solutions wherever they may be
Video: (48 hours ago…Duke followed suit)
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IT into “The Cloud”
Rule of 1: do it once Rule of 0: don’t do it
Don’t build software, don’t host servers Retain local branding and admin control
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Recommendations / Big Ideas Have a P-20 conversation
New IT Governance “CIS” moved to SBCTC Align decision making, policy and funding
Open Educational Resources Use others’ and share our digital content Move toward open textbooks
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Work Completed: System Solutions Elluminate
1,361 faculty & staff accounts 954 rooms online 990 meetings have taken place unlimited license, hosting, training
WashingtonOnline “Angel” LOR, sharing courses, ePortfolio
24/7 virtual library reference
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Work Completed
Significantly Reduced
WashingtonOnline Technology Fee
Old WAOL Technology Fee: $8 / credit / student / course
New WAOL Technology Fee: $4 / user / quarter Unlimited use: one or more ANGEL courses, ePortfolios
and/or collaboration spaces Old: Three 5-credit courses in WAOL was $120 New: Three (or more) 5-credit courses in WAOL is $4
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Ongoing Online Learning Growth
Over 83,000 students learn online each year
eLearning enrollments up more than 23% (Fall 07 – Fall 08)
Growth projections: by 2019, 51% or 78,344 of system FTE will be enrolled in online or hybrid courses
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Ongoing Online Learning Growth
45% of all CTC graduates earn 15 or more credits online or hybrid
23 colleges offer 86 different degrees and certificates online
16 colleges offer an AA degree online Community and Technical Colleges
teach over 80+% of all online FTE in WA higher education
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Growth in Online CoursesAnnualized FTE: 1998-2011
1998-2008 growth = 1,818%
Growth in Online CoursesAnnualized Headcount: 1998-2011
1998-2008 growth = 1,136%
Why do these growth curves
matter?
Educate More Citizens
HECB Master Plan I. Raise educational attainment to
create prosperity, opportunity Policy Goal: Increase the total number of
degrees and certificates produced annually to achieve Global Challenge State benchmarks.
By 2018, raise mid-level degrees and certificates to 36,200 annually, an increase of 9,400 degrees annually.
2008 Online + Hybrid LearningGas / Carbon Savings
1.9M round trips avoided = reduced traffic
congestion
2.1M gallons of gas saved
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Presidents Understandthe Need to Change
Presidents voted unanimously to support the Strategic Technology Plan
WACTC Technology Committee track implementation of the Strategic
Technology Plan: “Score Card” communicate system solutions
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Funding System Solutions is the Greatest Challenge
Leverage the buying power of entire system Cost effective to use common systems and
support services Large travel and per diem offsets using
technology 1 ½ day “in-person” System Meeting
= $10K (give or take $3K)
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What is Next for WashingtonOnline? Colleges looking at ANGEL (lower tech fee)
new capability to share content system-wide Use existing Pooled Enrollment (see Connie)
In bad budget times – colleges close programs. How will you deliver your students the courses they need? How do we serve WA students – not just your district’s students?
Enrolling College – keeps all FTE & Tuition Teaching College – gets $50/credit hour/student Student gets the course she needs! WashingtonOnline facilitates – takes no $
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Definition of OER
Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.
Open Educational Resources
Open Textbooks Open Courses Open Licensing Consider One high enrollment Course:
English Composition I 37,226 enrollments / year X $100 textbook = $3.7 Million + (cost to students)
What if we looked at 200 courses?
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Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
2005 GAO report: College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the last two decades
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf
May, 2007: Dept of Ed.
http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf
Community College Consortiumfor Open Educational Resources
Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks
in community college courses
cccoer.wordpress.com
Community CollegeOpen Textbook Project Goal
Identify, organize, and support the production and use of high quality, accessible and culturally relevant Open
Textbooks for community college students
Reduce the cost of
textbooks!
Comparison of Statistics Textbooks
Publisher: Wiley Open: Connexions & QOOP
Downloadable version:
$77.50
Downloadable & online versions:
FREE
Printed bound version:
$141.95 new
$110.25 used
Printed bound version:
$31.98 new
Introductory Statistics by MannTable of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Organizing and Graphing Data Chapter 3 Numerical Descriptive Measures Chapter 4 Probability Chapter 5 Discrete Random Variables and Their Probability Distributions Chapter 6 Continuous Random Variables and the Normal Distribution Chapter 7 Sampling Distributions Chapter 8 Estimation of the Mean and Proportion Chapter 9 Hypothesis Tests About the Mean and Proportion Chapter 10 Estimation and Hypothesis Testing: Two Populations Chapter 11 Chi-Square Tests Chapter 12 Analysis of Variance Chapter 13 Simple Linear Regression Chapter 14 Multiple Regression Chapter 15 Nonparametric Methods1
© 2007, 720 pagesRequired textbook for Math 12 at Cabrillo College
Collaborative Statistics by Illowsky and Dean
Table of Contents
1. Sampling and Data 2. Descriptive Statistics 3. Probability Topics 4. Discrete Random Variables 5. Continuous Random Variables 6. The Normal Distribution 7. The Central Limit Theorem 8. Confidence Intervals 9. Hypothesis Testing: Single Mean and Single Proportion10. Hypothesis Testing: Two Means, Paired Data, Two Proportions11. The Chi-Square Distribution12. Linear Regression and Correlation13. F Distribution and ANOVA
© 2008, 600 pagesRequired textbook for Math 10 at De Anza College
Click the Green Check if your college teaches
“Introductory Statistics”
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General Physics
600 pages
New $179.00
Used
$125.00
Click the Green Check if your college teaches “Introductory Physics”
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Click the Green Check if your college teaches Elementary Algebra
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Do you want to go through the rest of your high enrollment courses?
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Challenges It’s Different
Limited availability of high quality and comprehensive learning materials in some disciplines
Inadequate access to high-speed Internet by some students
Challenges Compliance with accessibility requirements
Printing and computer lab demands on campus by students
Coordination with campus bookstores
Open Textbook Adoption
Locate open textbooks for consideration
Evaluate each textbook for selection
Customize, remix, and organize selected textbook
Disseminate in print and digital formats
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Locate Open Textbooksfor Consideration
MERLOT
Connexions
Wikibooks
OER Commons
Global Text Project
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Evaluate Each Textbook Quality Accessibility Cultural relevance Currency Authority of Source Reading level Depth and scope Quality and
Accuracy Articulation
Customize, Remix, and Organize
Disseminate Open Textbooks Digital formats
Printed format
Student (DIY) – printing?
Campus bookstore
Campus print-shop services
Proprietary services
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Faculty?
Faculty don’t have the time to do all of that!
We’ll have to collectively figure out how to make it as easy, for faculty, as commercial publishers’ salespeople do.
Bookstores Role with OER?
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Bookstores are perfectly positioned to be the College’s clearinghouse for printed open educational resources. print-on-demand open textbooks & OER course
packs? Students want printed options
Have location and are tightly networked into IT and fiscal campus operations.
Crazy Big Ideas…. Washington public P-20 education institutions
that receive state funding could share all instructional digital resources including: courses, textbooks and library resources with all other Washington public P-20 education institutions.
WA public P-20 education institutions could use common teaching & learning, student services, and administrative technologies and support services.
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We must get rid of our “not invented here” attitude regarding others’ content move to: "proudly borrowed from there"
Content is not a strategic advantage
Nor can we (or our students) afford it
Hey Higher Education!
What Happens if weDon’t Change?
Google, Amazo
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Harder to catch-up …
Or even understand.
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Higher Education’s Future Role?“I’ve been trying to gain a better sense of the role universities will play in society in the future. At one point, we thought content was the value point of universities. Wrong. MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative changed that. Ok, then the interaction with faculty is the value point. And wrong again. Open communication and collaboration in online environments with networks of peers and experts gave us control over our interactions. Fine. Then the value point is accreditation. Yes, for now. Our ability to rate, review, comment, and provide feedback has increased with the development of the read/write web. I’m not sure how long we can build education’s value on the concept of accreditation.”
57George Siemens: blog post: explaining leads to information
Cable’s Answer… I think
Our new role (at least for now) is to be synthesizers and leverage networked IT, networked knowledge, and networked expertise… and put together high quality, cost effective learning environments that help more students get to higher levels of education.
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Slides @ http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen
Dr. Cable GreeneLearning [email protected]
(360) 704-4334
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