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Washington CTC System
• 34 community and technical colleges in Washington
• In 2010-11
– 161,000 FTEs
– 330,000 headcount
– 96,600 students who took an online class
– 34,000 students who took a hybrid class
– 37 percent of all graduates earn 15 or more credits online or
hybrid
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Strategic Technology Plan
• Strategy I:
Create a single, system-wide suite of online
teaching and learning tools that provides all
Washington students with easy access to
“anywhere, anytime” learning.
• http://www.sbctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx
6. • June 2010
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SBCTC Open Policy
All digital software, educational resources and
knowledge produced through competitive grants,
offered through and/or managed by the SBCTC,
will carry a Creative Commons Attribution
License.
– http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open
_Licensing_Policy.pdf
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SBCTC Open Course Library
Funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and WA State Legislature
• Open content for the 81 most common
courses so students pay $30 or less for
textbooks
• Both the content and the processes are
OPEN
Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA
http://opencourselibrary.org
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Open Course Library Timeline
• Phase 1: 42 courses
– Available October 31, 2011 at
http://opencourselibrary.org
• Phase 2 : 40 courses
– Available Spring 2013
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Open Course Library Development
Faculty course developers
Supported by--
– Research librarians
– Instructional designers
• Modified Quality Matters rubric
– Global education specialist
– Accessibility support specialists
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OCL Lessons Learned
Phase 1: Using a learning management system
was a barrier
– No way to compare work between course teams
– Hard to search for content items
– Must import content into another learning
management system
Phase 2: Building content in Google Docs
– Can collaborate during development
– Easy to share and search
– Separates content from delivery
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Changing to Canvas
• ANGEL discontinued so formal process for
new learning management system
• WAOL ANGEL moving to Canvas starting
July 1, 2012
• ANGEL disappears June 2014
• Negotiating contract that can be used by
any Washington higher ed institution