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Teresa Potter

Ohio Community Colleges Announce Partnership with Western Governors University | Wester... - 0 views

www.wgu.edu/...ohio_partnership_10-14-16

CBE

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  • he Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC) today announced a new partnership with Western Governors University (WGU) that allows Ohio community college graduates to seamlessly transfer their coursework to WGU while also receiving discounted tuition to the accredited, online university.
  • WGU will:
  • Offer Ohio community colleges’ graduates and staff a five percent 5% tuition discount.
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  • Prepare seamless associate degree to bachelor degree articulation agreements for all related degree programs in education, business, Information Technology and health professions.
  • Create a 3+1 transfer option for OACC colleges’ nursing graduates who possess an Ohio RN license and are employed as a nurse.
  • Graduates and staff of OACC colleges will also be eligible to apply for scholarships offered through the WGU Institutional Partner Fund.
  • OACC college nursing graduates who are eligible for the 3+1 program may also enroll in the MS, Nursing bridge programs, in nursing education or nursing leadership and management. The BS, Nursing degree is awarded to the 3+2 student as they progress toward the MS, Nursing degree.
wlampner

Publications - Competency-Based Education: A Study of Four New Models and Their Implica... - 0 views

www.heartland.org/...he-higher-education-cost-curve

CBE cost budget

shared by wlampner on 27 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 27 Oct 16
     
    "The study, "A Study of Four New Models and Their Implications for Bending the Higher Education Cost Curve," prepared by, rpkGROUP, a consulting firm, and funded by the Lumina Foundation, studied CBE programs at four institutions: the University of Wisconsin-Extension and Kentucky Community and Technical System (both public universities), Brandman University (a private nonprofit university) and Walden University (a private for-profit college).  It suggests colleges and universities could cut the cost of producing some of their degrees by as much as 50 percent with competency-based education (CBE)."
Steve Kaufman

Small, Rural Colleges Grapple With Their Geography - 0 views

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education colleges campus size

shared by Steve Kaufman on 13 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Steve Kaufman on 13 Jun 16
     
    Kayaks and gorgeous views. A cellphone tower. A Starbucks not so far away. When recruiting students and faculty members, colleges in remote locations count unusual assets as part of their appeal.
wlampner

Lumen Learning - Courseware: Candela - 0 views

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OER open_courseware

shared by wlampner on 22 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 22 Sep 15
     
    "Candela courseware from Lumen Learning provides an extremely low cost e-textbook alternative to expensive commercial textbooks in high enrollment college courses. Designed using open educational resources (OER), Candela courses offer much more than just an OER textbook. The Catalog includes OER-based courses for 50+subjects focusing on high enrollment courses students typically take during the first two years of college.
wlampner

How to Improve Public Online Education: Report Offers a Model - Government - The Chroni... - 0 views

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online administration models

shared by wlampner on 29 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Public colleges and universities, which educate the bulk of all American college students, have been slower than their counterparts in the for-profit sector to embrace the potential of online learning to offer pathways to degrees.
  • continuum of organizational levels
  • low end of the spectrum, course availability, pricing, transferability of credit, and other issues are all determined at the institutional level, by colleges, departments, or individual professors, resulting in a patchwork collection of online courses that's difficult for students to navigate.
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  • Step 2, institutions further collaborate through shared contracts on resources, like learning-management systems
  • The first step is for state institutions to collaborate to establish a searchable clearinghouse of online courses and degree
  • report identifies five cumulative steps that build toward State U Online and gives an example of a state or system at each step
  • Step 3, systems also provide shared student-support services, such as advising, that can be used by students at all institutions in the system,
  • Step 4, an entire state, or a system of public higher-education institutions within the state, achieves all the previous levels of collaboration and in addition makes it easy for students to transfer credit among institutions.
  • enroll in a program at their "home" institution, but can easily take classes at any institution within the consortium.
  • Step 5 carries that concept beyond state borders. Students can take courses at any institution in such a multistate consortium and not worry about whether their credits will transfer, because institutional agreements within the consortium make that automatic.
  • offers practical suggestions about concerns like building sustainable revenue streams that are less dependent on allocations from legislatures, and on providing incentives and support for faculty members to offer online courses.
wlampner

The College App That Changed My Life | Higher Ed Beta - 2 views

www.insidehighered.com/...college-app-changed-my-life

CBE App

shared by wlampner on 14 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • That’s because our new best friend for the next four years was going to be an app called Total Educational Experience (TEx). Designed by The University of Texas System, TEx is our one-stop shop for everything – a vast array of textbooks and other course materials, online access to faculty and success coaches, endless quizzes and exams, social media-like interaction with classmates, and real-time metrics to measure our performance.
  • Ex tells me what materials I should be covering and what benchmarks I should be achieving. This helps with time management and keeping pace with the workload. Moreover, the app’s quizzes are helpful in prioritizing what points should be drawn from the readings. And the fact that there is an explanation for each question — whether it’s right or wrong — has allowed me to better understand the material.
  • ’m not sure how many colleges are experimenting with using this type of app to deliver competency-based education. But I can tell you it works, and you don’t have to be tech-savvy to figure it out.
wlampner

Purdue U gets into competency-based education with new bachelor's degree - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...education-new-bachelors-degree

CBE

shared by wlampner on 30 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Many of the 600 or so colleges that are trying to add competency-based degrees are focused on adult, nontraditional students who want a leg up in the job market
  • in collaboration with specific industry partners, where an employer’s endorsement of the credential can lead to a graduate employee getting a promotion.
  • ther colleges' forays into competency-based education have been in disciplines with professional licensing and a heavy dose of task-based learning, which seems like an easier fit with academic programs based on mastery rather than time in a classroom.
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  • The toughest nut to crack for competency-based education appears to be bachelor’s degrees aimed at traditional-age students.
  • hat’s what Purdue University is doing with a newly approved bachelor’s in transdisciplinary studies in technology
  • ombines technical disciplines with the humanities.
  • Customization is a big part of the degree’s novelty.
  • which will blend technology-focused disciplines such as computing, construction management, engineering, and aviation with social sciences, the humanities and business.
  • kills employers need for a “thinking economy.” That means complex problem solving, effective communication, critical thinking and ethical judgmen
  • igital badges and produce e-portfolios to display their work
  • In order to do that in a traditional sense, this student would have to get at least one major and three minors
  • urdue’s degree track is based on the credit-hour standard, in which the demonstration of competencies is linked to corresponding college credit
  • he U.S. Department of Education has taken some heat from its own Office of the Inspector General for approving direct-assessment degrees
  • an inspector general audit of Western Governors University over the faculty role in competency-based education (the results of which have yet to be made public), have had a chilling effect on how regional accreditors view proposals for new direct assessment and other competency-based degrees
  • mployer groups, such as the National Association of Manufacturers, praised the new degree in written statements.
  • To scale a program with this level of customization would be challenging,
wlampner

Trump administration official describes plan to 'rethink' higher education through upco... - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...think-higher-education-through

online CBE federal_rules

shared by wlampner on 30 Jul 18 - No Cached
  • epartment wants to drop a standardized definition for academic course work, known as the credit hour, that the Obama administration rewrote in 2010 to curb credit inflation
  • re-examination of requirements for online education
  • faculty interaction and state authorization rules
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  • evaluating rules for competency-based education and the outsourcing of academic programs to nonaccredited providers
  • ccreditors have clamored for the department to get rid of the credit-hour definition, complaining it is difficult for them to track. Officials from some colleges, particularly those offering competency-based programs, have argued that the standard makes it difficult to comply with federal aid requirements.
  • The credit hour probably interferes with innovation almost more than anything
  • biggest providers of nontraditional education today -- online colleges -- have far more data on faculty instruction and student engagement than any other type of institution. And accreditors, she said, would come up with new ways to evaluate academic workloads based on that data.
  • department will propose that negotiators discuss federal rules for the outsourcing of portions of academic programs to nonaccredited or noncollege providers
  • Currently, no more than half of a program can be administered by an outside entity, such as an online program management (OPM) company
  • uild on lessons being learned from an Obama-era experiment to allow such partnerships to receive federal aid, dubbed the EQUIP program
  • e department wants to put more of an onus on colleges to justify not taking transfer credit,
wlampner

Tips for college leaders to make online programs work | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...ders-make-online-programs-work

elearning TalkingPoints

shared by wlampner on 11 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • “Why are we doing e-learning?”  Is it to increase tuition revenue?  Decrease costs? Create greater access? Allow greater flexibility for our students? Experiment with new pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning, so as to better educate a different generation of students? All of the above?
  • ultimately the senior no-wake proponents on campus will delay and/or sabotage any meaningful e-learning strategy.
  • all must understand the risks of NOT advancing one.
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  • key to succeeding is to incentivize faculty and senior staff.
  • sharing of tuition revenue generated from online courses and/or financial support for scholarly activities
  • same individuals must be engaged in defining and ensuring the highest level of quality of the online student experience
  • houghtful use of both internal and external resources, including independent marketing research
  • student-faculty engagement
  • measurable retention strategy
  • baseline for retention must be established
  • retention “dashboard” created to enable the provost to monitor all online programs
  • course development standards, teaching expectations, proper advisement and support services
  • careful use of third-party vendors and consultants to properly assess your institution’s market niche is typically a good expense.
  • more personalized, technologically advanced and affordable online degree program.
wlampner

http://info.3playmedia.com/rs/744-UDO-697/images/Student-Survey-Report-10-25-16-Final.pdf - 0 views

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accessibility captions research

shared by wlampner on 01 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 01 Nov 16
     
    Using data collected from 2,124 student participants from across 15 public and private colleges and universities, the results are carefully analyzed and broken down by different student subgroups.
wlampner

Pearson-backed Startup Aims to Be the Zynga for Learning - 1 views

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Pearson

shared by wlampner on 01 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 01 Feb 12
     
    the site is peddling educational material rather than time-sucking games, and that's an important distinction. As it builds profiles of learners, it starts to make recommendations for college readiness and even career choice - all the while baiting them with the promise of more Yoops. If we can use game mechanics to get kids hooked on virtual-currency powered farm fields, why not learning?
wlampner

The Hope and Hype of the Academic Innovation Center - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

www.chronicle.com/...242284

innovation ITL Mission

shared by wlampner on 24 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 24 Jan 18
     
    "A 2015 survey found that a growing number of colleges were marrying their academic-technology units with their teaching and learning centers in hopes of igniting fundamental reforms across campus. A common mission for innovation centers, particularly at large public universities like Michigan State, is improving student success. That may include revamping large introductory courses, training professors in design thinking and active learning, and using analytics to improve retention and graduation rates."
wlampner

3 Universities Will Grant Credit for 2U's Online Courses - Wired Campus - The Chronicle... - 0 views

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online collaboration elearning

shared by wlampner on 30 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • First, the courses will be taught entirely online—an option that Southern Methodist has never before offered to undergraduates.
  • taught by professors at other universities
  • ourses, offered through the online-education company 2U, will come from a consortium of colleges participating in 2U’s Semester Online program
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  • will allow Southern Methodist to see how well online courses work for its students without committing resources to building its own
  • students will be allowed to take a maximum of four courses through 2U
  • prevent cannibalizing enrollment from its own courses
  • will allow each student to take only one Semester Online course this fall
  • courses have already passed through a faculty review.
  • during their time at Southern Methodist
  • U has increasingly pitched itself as the anti-MOOC online provider.
  • teach the courses live, via Webcam, to virtual classrooms of no more than 20 students.
  • 4,200 per student per course.
  • purposefully exclusive.
  • teaching institutions supply high-quality courses, while the affiliates supply high-quality students.
wlampner

How marketing helped Southern New Hampshire University make it big online - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...-university-make-it-big-online

online marketing

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  • wlampner on 11 Feb 20
     
    "national online college"
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