This webinar discussed open education, MOOCs, and student access in California community colleges. It covered Senate bills 1052 and 1053 which establish an open education resources library and council. Speakers discussed increasing student success and access through open educational resources, MOOCs, and competency-based learning. Concerns were raised about ensuring equal access to technology and success in online courses. MOOCs were viewed as a potential way to increase access if they increase student success rates. Developing high-quality, community college MOOOs was suggested as a way to capture effective teaching practices and make materials widely available.
1. Senator(retd.) Dean Florez, 20 Million Minds
Foundation
Dr. Barbara Illowsky, De Anza College
Dr. Michelle Pilati, Rio Hondo College
April 30, 2013
Open Education, MOOCs, &
Student Access
3. Welcome
Please introduce yourself in the chat
window.
Your hosts:
– Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director at Open
Courseware Consortium
– James Glapa-Grossklag, President of CCCOER Advisory
Board; Dean, College of Canyons
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4. Agenda
• Community Colleges and Open Ed
• Rebooting Higher Ed in California
• OER and MOOCs
• Academic Senate & OER council
• Choosing our next webinar
• Q & A
5. CCCOER Mission
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance
teaching and learning
–Expand access to education
–Support professional development
–Advance community college mission
Funded by the William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation
8. How to Get Involved?
Join the CCCOER advisory list
Participate in our community of interest
Attend our free monthly webinars
Visit our website to find resources
Invite us to conduct faculty training
Become a member of the OCWC
oerconsortium.org
james.glapa-grossklag@canyons.edu
unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
9. Rebooting CA Higher Education
Dean Florez
CEO, Twenty Million Minds Foundation
Former CA State Senate Majority Leader
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24. Open Education in Classroom
Dr. Barbara Illowsky
Math Instructor and open textbook co-author
Chancellor’s Office 2012-13
California Community College System
25. Me!
• Teach online, hybrid, f2f
• OER textbook: Collaborative Statistics
• CVC 2002 top online course award
• OCW Consortium 2013 Educator Award
(international)
• Teaching MOOC “Intro to Descriptive
Statistics”, 4-week, not-for-credit in January
2014
26. Open Educational Resources
(OER)
“Teaching, learning, and research resources that
reside in the public domain or have been
released under an intellectual property license
that permits their free use or repurposing by
others.”
U.S Department of Education
27. OER: Saves $$$
Amazon $171.25 hardcopy Web - $0
POD - $26.20 + SH
Wiley & Sons Connexions
29. OER: Free to
Choose
• provides faculty with more choices
for their courses
• allows for permission-free editing
and adaptation
• promotes customization
• eliminates forced publisher revisions
30. OER: Adoption
Concerns
• Faculty awareness of OER is low
• Difficulty of finding materials
• Standards for quality vary
• Lack of ancillaries
31. Exploring MOOCs
• Massive: > 1000 students
• Online: videos lectures, automated
quizzes, discussions
• Open: open enrollment but NOT OER
• Course: learning experience
32. MOOC Concerns
• Poor instruction quality
• Low Completion rates: 5-15% is typical
• Learner support is minimal
• Assessment for credit: costs $; in
early stages
• Sustainability is unknown
33. Community College MOOCs
for non-credit??
• Thousands of students taking basic skills &
pre-transfer level English, reading, writing, ESL
and mathematics courses
• Huge subset of above population, at one
time, had learned the content using taxpayer
$$
• Many just need to review before taking an
assessment test for placement
34. What if …
• community college faculty develop and teach
pre-transfer level MOOCs
• a large subset of the “huge subset” take
MOOCs to review content?
• a VERY small subset of the “large subset of the
huge subset” complete 1 MOOC and place into
1 higher level course in just 1discipline?
36. Very small subset of the large
subset of the huge subset…
• will save at least one semester to degree
completion
• will save taxpayers $$
• may be encouraged to take more ownership in
their education
• may take more than 1 MOOC and multiply
their time savings and taxpayer savings
37. In other words …
• if 100,000 students take at least 1 MOOC
• if just 6% of MOOC folks complete their course
• if this 6% of MOOC folks place into 1 course
higher
• then, 94% of MOOC students are FAILURES!!!
38. BUT …
… 6000 students have succeeded!!!!!
… and maybe will have a …
40. Academic Senate
Dr. Michelle Pilati
Psychology Instructor
Academic Senate President 2011-13
California Community College System
41. CALIFORNIA’S AGENDA FOR OPEN EDUCATION,
MOOCS, AND STUDENT ACCESS
Thoughts on the implementation
of SB 1052/1053
Access issues?
MOOCs and the California
Community Colleges
42. SB 1052 AND SB 1053
Establish an intersegmental OER library and
a council to facilitate populating the library
and ensuring its use
Members “appointed” to the California Open
Education Resources Council (COERC)
Next steps
Challenges
44. ADDRESSING “ACCESS” ISSUES
Increase success
Online retention and success lags behind that of
onsite
Increase online success >>> Increase access
Increase access to existing courses – online
and onsite
Students want access to courses, not
pathways to unit accumulation
45. ONLINE AS THE ACCESS ANSWER?
Presumes equal access to technology
Presumes equal success
Differential outcomes exacerbated in the
online environment
Online investment needs to focus on quality
as a means of increasing success
46. MOOCS AND THE CCC
Currently: A pathway to credit for MOOCs
exists:
“Credit by exam”
“Traditional” MOOCs are not a replacement
for credit-bearing courses
MOOOs
Massive Open Online Offerings
“Courses” result in a transcripted outcome,
qualify for financial aid, and are taught by
qualified faculty
47. COURSES IN THE CCCS
Require “regular effective contact”
Regulatory requirement (Title 5)
Not “correspondence courses”
Necessary to qualify for financial aid
Able to document last date of attendance
48. MOOOS AND THE CCCS
Replacement
No.
Offer an alternative
Pre-assessment
Possible supplement
A means to increase “access”?
Perhaps – increase success >>> increase
access
Perhaps – high-quality content and auto-graded
assessments make a SLIGHTLY larger class
51. FINAL THOUGHTS
CCC-developed MOOOs that capture how
we teach.
MOOO as a collection of the highest quality
online learning objects that the state invests
in and is available for use by all. (A LOOC?)
Increase access by investing in success.
Increase/simplify access to existing course
offerings.
52. Next Webinar
June 11, 10:00 am (Pacific)
Open Education and
Competency-based Learning
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53. Thank you for attending!
Please type your question in the chat window or
raise your hand to speak
Contact Information
Una Daly, unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
James Glapa-Grossklag, James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu
Dean Florez, dean@20mmf.org
Barbara Illowsky, illowskybarbara@deanza.edu
Michelle Pilati, mpilati@riohondo.edu
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