1) The document discusses an immersive learning faculty challenge grant from Colorado Community Colleges that provided $3 million over 3 years for faculty professional development and innovative curriculum projects using immersive technologies like games and augmented reality. 2) It describes some of the projects funded, including a massive open online course (MOOC) on games-based learning and a hackathon project to research the hackathon methodology and implement best practices in classes. 3) Preliminary findings observed that the funding helped spark faculty interest in innovation, identified leaders, and focused efforts on new forms of student assessment and engagement to improve student performance, persistence, and retention.

1. Gamers in the Main Office
Inevitable Instructors

2. Dashboards and
Authentic Assessment

3. Overview
• Welcome
• Our Backgrounds
• Why and how are we looking to innovate?
o i.e. How do Administrators look at innovation?
• Immersive Learning Faculty Challenge
• Findings

4. Our Backgrounds
Joseph Doan, Educational Technologist, CFE
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
(TAMUCC.edu)

5. Our Backgrounds
• ~10,000 students representing 48 states and 67
foreign countries
• Bachelor's, master’s and doctoral degrees in the
five colleges: Business, Education, Liberal
Arts, Nursing and Health Sciences and Science
and Engineering
• Student-to-Faculty Ratio: 20:1

6. Our Backgrounds
Chris Luchs, Associate Dean, CTE
Colorado Community Colleges Online
Colorado Community College System
(CCCS.edu)

7. • 13 Community Colleges
• Over 162,000 Students Annually
• In AY '12, Awarded 6,550 Associate
Degrees and 7,685 Certificates
• 42% of degrees were in Health Sciences

8. Why and how are we looking to
innovation?
Why
• Improve student performance and
persistence
• Improve student engagement
• Improve critical thinking skills
• Reduce Student Attrition

9. Why and how are we looking to
innovation?
How
• Is it sustainable?
• Cost = Cost + Training Time + Cost of
switching + Cost of Reporting
• Impact: How many for how long?
• Duration: what is the timeline for return?

10. Immersive Learning Faculty
Challenge Grant
CCCS Presidential Initiative
Specifics:
• $3 Million total one time funding disbursed
over three years
• Funds could be used for professional
development, developing
curriculum, purchasing
licenses, events, overload pay, and release

11. Immersive Learning Faculty
Challenge Grant
Considerations:
• Applicants had to estimate Cost of
Implementation
• Sustainability: Required a team of faculty
• Accessibility: Required ADA/ 508
compliance/ consideration

12. Immersive Learning Faculty
Challenge Grant
Considerations:
• IP: All materials required to be Creative
Commons 3.3 licensed
• Impact: Estimate faculty and students
affected
• Collaboration: Required collaboration
between colleges and/or disciplines

13. Immersive Learning
Faculty Challenge Grant
What did we do?

14. Games Based
Learning MOOC
http://gamesmooc.shivtr.com

15. Games MOOC

16. Games MOOC Offerings
•Summer 2012
•Intro to Game Based Learning
•Fall 2012
•Intro to Game Based Learning II
•Spring 2013
•Apps, AR ( Augmented Reality) and ARG
•Summer 2013
•Immersive Environments

17. Numbers So Far
•Total Participants– 717
•Total Site Visits – 236,096
•Total Page Views – 348,899
•Videos of Live Sessions - 84

18. Live Events Online
•
•Mon Noon Google Hangout Week Overview
•Tue 6 pm Guest Speaker (60 mins)
•Wed 7 pm #gamemooc tweetchat (60 mins)
•Fri Office Hours
•Sat 11 am Live Tour and Gameplay

19. NMC Horizon Report
2103 Higher Education Edition
Massively Open Online Courses in Practice
Games MOOC

20. Fall 2013 Games MOOC
•Makers ( Makers Movement)
•Hackers ( Hackathon)
•Gamers ( Making Games)

21. World of Warcraft in Business

22. World of Warcraft in Business
• Intro to Business
• Intro to Macroeconomics
• Virtual Goods

23. World of Warcraft in Business
• Focus is on Entrepreneurship for BUS115
• Application of class concepts
• Do not focus on Game play
• Lots of student reflection

24. CCCS Hackathon Project
Round 2 Funding
2013-2014

25. What is a Hackathon?
• Working intensely for an extended
amount of time on a problems or creative
project
• Groups
• Usually overnight: 24-48 hours
• Common goal

26. Wikipedia Definition (remixed)

27. Purpose
• To Research, Develop, Execute and
Evaluate the Hackathon methodology and
implement best practices into CSC classes
and others

28. Project Outbreak
Augmented Reality Game

30. Epistemic Frame

31. Ground Zero

33. MedTag Algorithm
Computational Thinking
Ludic Fallacy

34. Augmented Reality
• Tagwhat
• Aurasma

35. Findings
Round 1 will be reported on Sept. 13th.
Round 2 applications have been awarded and
will present an update on Sept 13th as well.

36. Findings
Observations:
• Lurking as Slow Deliberate Culture Change
• Legitimized innovation and exploration
• Sparked interest from all faculty
• Helped identify Innovators and Leaders

37. Findings
Observations:
• Built excitement and creative tension
• Focused on Assessment and New forms of
Assessment

38. Findings
Observations:
• Provided funding for targeted areas of
professional development
o Assessment
o Student Engagement
o Student Retention

39. Wrapping things up
Administrators:
• Completion, Transfer & Attrition
o Funding
o Recruitment

40. Wrapping Things Up
Administrators:

41. Wrapping Things Up
Administrators:
• Professional Development