Chat with Centralia College faculty: Oct, 2010

1. How Digital, Networked Technologies and SharingChanges Education Dr. Cable GreenDirector of eLearning &Open EducationSBCTC

2. Let’s talk about the big trends & how to prepare for inevitable change&how Centralia can think in new ways to leverage digital, networked technologies…

3. Trends: Yes… we really are networked… seamless connection of people, resources & knowledge digitization of content mobile, personal global platform for collaboration outsourcing Anyone notice our globaleconomy?

4. Trends: Connected

5. Trends: Data … lots of Data "According to an IBM study, in 2010, the amount of digital information in the world will double every 11 hours."

6. Trends: Digital Economics Text

7. Trends: Data Visualization

8. Trends: New types of interactions…

9. Students experience these Trends And they want services like this: Backup

10. So how do we prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented, to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI

11. (1) Engage Participatory “Web 2.0” Tools & Practices

13. RSS Play with:

14. Social Networking Play with:

15. Play with: flickr.com

16. Play with:

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18. Share Video Play with:

19. Blog Play with:

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21. System-wide tools, services, professional development Tegrity ANGEL 24 / 7 Help Desk Elluminate webinars, online meetings, office hours, study groups 24 / 7 Library Reference NW eTutoring Consortium Streaming Media Server Professional Development SLOAN, Quality Matters

22. Second Life Archipelago

23. (2) eLearning Why call it “eLearning?”

24. “Distance” is about geographic separation. “eLearning” is about leveraging the unique affordances of digital, networked technologies to support new ways of learning in new spaces. Online, Hybrid, Enhanced

25. Going to Web and Mobile

26. eLearning Growth …last 12 months eLearning up 31% increase of 7,307 FTEs to… 30,911 state FTES (“5 ½ Colleges”) All funding sources, all eLearning = 37,110 FTEs Of all state funded FTE growth: 58% of the growth was eLearning eLearning is now 19% of all state funded instructional activity

27. eLearning Growth …last 12 months Online learning is the most popular form of eLearning, comprising 65 percent. up 3,276 state FTES: 20% Hybrid courses (online + face-to-face) are growing rapidly. up 3,504 state FTES: 67%

28. eLearning Growth …last 12 months

29. eLearning 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

30. Why does this growth matter?

33. Shifting our Thinking… Old: eLearning as delivery mechanism New: eLearning as learning effectiveness strategy

34. (3) Open Educational Resources

35. We have…

36. a problem...

37. Text Global Trends

38. Global Trends

39. Global Trends

40. English Composition I 47,000+ enrollments / year x $100 textbook = $4.7+ Million every year

41. The Old Economics Print, warehouse, and ship a new book for every student

42. The New Economics Upload one copy, and everyone uses it simultaneously Making copies, storage, distribution of digital stuff = “Free”

43. 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

44. Why do we Need Open Textbooks? The College Board reported that for the 2007 through 2008 academic years each student spent an estimated $805 to $1,229 on college books and supplies… http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/trends_pricing_07.pdf

45. Why do we Need Open Textbooks? The gross margin on new college textbooks is currently 22.7 percent according to the National Association of College Stores. http://www.nacs.org/public/research/margins.asp

47. May, 2007: Dept of Ed.

49. Why do we Need Open Textbooks? http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf

50. Why do we Need Open Textbooks? http://www.studentpirgs.org/uploads/43/99/4399cfd2d96b17bcca8ef8041bd160b4/A-Cover-To-Cover-Solution.pdf

51. WA CTC 2009 Student Voice Academy (1) CUTTING TEXTBOOK COSTS “The high cost of textbooks is a burden to students….” Top Issue three years running…. 51 Student Advocacy

55. Why is “Open” Important? When we cooperate and share, we all win Faculty have new choices when building learning spaces. …the more eyes on a problem, the greater chance for a solution. Affordability: students can’t afford textbooks Self-interest: good things happen when I share It’s a social justice issue: everyone should have the right to access digital knowledge.

56. DOE: Definition of OER Open educational resources (OER) means 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 repurposingby others.

57. (a few) Open Content Repositories OpenLearn (UK) OCW – MIT (MIT HS) China Open Resources for Education has translated 109 MIT OCW courses into Simplified Chinese. Rice Connexions

61. Open Education Goal: increase access and completion by providing high quality, affordable, openly licensed educational resources. Good news: our system is a national leader in community and technical college open education … Open Education

62. http://techplan.sbctc.edu “We will cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.”

63. But using open educational resources – and contributing to them – requires significant change in the culture of higher education.It requires thinking about content as a common resource that raises all boats when shared. (p.11)

64. Open Course Library designing and sharing 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper courses for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online delivery to improve course completion rates lower textbook costs for students (<$30) provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses for our college system to fully engage the global open educational resources discussion. Open Education

65. 81 courses = 411,133 enrollments / year 411,133 enrollments x $100 textbook = $41M+ in textbook costs / student debt per year Limit on textbook costs in redesigned courses is $30. If courses are adopted by 25% of the sections in the system (faculty decision), the savings to students will be $7.2M per year. Savings increase with increased adoptions and/or when courses use free, open textbooks. Open Education

66. 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. New State Board “Open” Policy

67. All of this has positioned our system well to vision and compete for: Open Education Leadership

68. The US DOE and DOL will provide $2 Billion (over 4 years) for open educational training and education programs at community colleges. $2.5M+ per grant Open Education

69. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently launched a “Next Gen Learning Challenges” grant:http://www.nextgenlearning.com $500K - $1.5M per grant SBCTC was invited to help write the grant… and will be applying for and assisting college applications when the grants are released: Fall 2010. Open Education

71. What are the kinds of decisions that will lead us to optimal use of technologies, content and talent to support student achievement for all Washingtonians? So what’s next?

72. Our system has strong structures in place to engage these big questions. WACTC (commissions / councils), TACTC, SBCTC, FACTC How can the system work together to successfully pursue appropriate changes? So what’s next?

73. What would happen to the quality of curriculum if all system digital content was shared and course (re)design was data driven? How can we use technologies and shared content to significantly increase completion rates? Questions

74. Pilot Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative courses… (article) Cost to Colleges / Students = $0 Questions

75. OLI Research Results: OLI students completed course in half the time with half the number of in-person meetings Accelerated learning study (Statistics): 33% more content, learning gain in standardized test 13% OLI vs 2% in traditional face-to-face class. OLI Online vs. traditional. OLI 99% completion rate vs 41% completion rate traditional. Questions

76. If we had free, openly licensed textbooks, how much money would we save students and state financial aid? see California Governor's moves in free, open K-12 textbooks Questions

77. What if all state funded educational content was open access? What kind of efficiencies could higher education yield? Simple idea: public access to publicly funded educational materials. NIH & DOE are leading the federal government to do just that. Questions

78. Hey Higher Education! 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

79. NEW HE Models are En Route

80. What Happens if we Don’t Change? Harder to catch-up … Or even understand. Google, Amazon, Open Source, Open Content, Open Textbooks… Functional Possibilities Higher Education Time

81. What do you think?

82. Dr. Cable GreenDirector of eLearning & Open EducationSBCTC360-704-4334cgreen@sbctc.edutwitter: cgreenblog.oer.sbctc.edu