SUNY BLEND

SUNY SLN Catch-up and Complete Enhanced Blended Learning Initiative Supporting Student Success - an NGLC Project Report

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SUNY BLEND

SUNY SLN Catch-up and Complete Enhanced Blended Learning Initiative

SUNY BLEND

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•  intent

•  realization

•  quasi-experiment

•  independent variables

•  dependent variables

Herkimer County Community College

HCCC Students… • 5% single parent • 46% work full or part time • 60% female • 65% plan to transfer • 59% take at least 1 online course • 30 yrs. - Average age of online only students • 19 yrs. - Average age of campus only students

HCCC Internet Academy… • …has offered totally online 2-year Associate

Degree programs since 1999. • …currently offers eighteen 2-year degree programs totally online. • …offers three 1-year certificates totally online.

– Medical Coding is a 1-year certificate that is only available online.

• 75% of HCCC’s full-time faculty teach 1 or more online courses.

Blended Programs & Courses • HCCC offers a total of forty 2-year Associate

Degree programs. All of them can be completed at least partially online- so they can all be considered “blended programs.”

• However, HCCC has not been aggressive in offering blended courses. The NGLC grant has provided us the opportunity to blend every course required for the Business  Admin-­‐  AAS  degree  program.  

NGLC Grant Benefits to HCCC • Professional Development:

– 12 seasoned online instructors are developing 16 new blended courses.

•  2-day workshop with Tanya Joosten •  1-day workshop with Tracy Sleep •  1-day workshop with Alejandra Pickett

• New Student Service Resources – Starfish – SmarThinking – SUNY SLN Commons / Social Network – Open Course Library / other digital resources  

Benefits continued… •  Blended Program: Business Administration AAS

– All required courses and Developmental Math. – Of great benefit to working students, students living off campus,

and students who do not benefit from totally online courses.

•  Collaboration with other institutions: – SUNY Albany – SUNY Learning Network –  Finger Lakes Community College

•  A research project on campus adds to a collegiate atmosphere

–  Faculty and student awareness. – Contribution to the knowledge collective.

Finger Lakes Community College

FLCC Data • 5100 FTE • 600 online FTE (66% female) • 64% plan to transfer • 41% take at least 1 online course • Web Enhanced courses – 750 • Online Online Courses – 184 • Hybrid- 8

FLCC Students - Modality • Increase in Developmental Math students • Decrease in student time • Online Learning – about 15% of FTE and probably not the best for these students.

• Hybrid Courses – – Preferred modality over online and face to face – Lack of clear understanding of what hybrid

truly is.

Historical Hybrid Data • “How about a Hybrid” campaign • Historically unsuccessful

– Student confusion – Demographically Challenged – Lack of Hybrid training – Lack of Hybrid best practices

Grant focus and development • Faculty training and collaboration

– Dr. Trista Merrill, English

• Student Support – Maureen Owens, Student Concierge

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NGLC Project wiki: http://wiki.sln.suny.edu/x/UQOP

SLN Online Student Commons: http://nglc.sln.suny.edu/

Student success materials: http://bit.ly/nglcsuccess

Questions? SUNY Blend: Supporting Student Success

alexandra.pickett@suny.edu pshea@albany.edu

pelzwe@herkimer.edu duganls@flcc.edu merriltm@flcc.edu