Strategic Technology PlanUsing Technology to Take a Bite

Out of the Budget Crunch

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Cable GreeneLearning Director

Technology TransformationTask Force

The strategic technology plan is the product of an 18-month analysis conducted by the Technology Transformation Task Force of the SBCTC for the purpose of creating a roadmap for how our system needs to leverage 21st century technologies to support student achievement.

Conversation went something like this: Video

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http://techplan.sbctc.edu

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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.

Strategy II: Create a seamless P-20 system for personalized online student services including: recruitment, retention, advising, course catalogue, transfer, and financial aid management.

Strategy III: Create a system of lifelong learning and change management for faculty, staff and college leadership.

Strategy IV: Use data to drive continuous improvement in both student success and administrative efficiency.

Strategy V: Treat information technology as a centrally funded, baseline service in the system budget.

Five strategies for transformation

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Recommendations / Big Ideas

Access for all students and all colleges Single, centrally funded solutions for

common systems Rule of 1: do it once Rule of 0: don’t do it

Don’t build software, don’t host servers Retain local branding and admin control

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Recommendations / Big Ideas Cost Savings

licenses, hosting, help desk, professional development transaction costs: integration, RFPs, vendor relationships

Value Proposition Don’t focus local resources (people, money, time) on commodity

technology services Use best solutions wherever they may be

Video

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Recommendations / Big Ideas Have a P-20 conversation

New IT Governance CIS moved to SBCTC Align decision making, policy and funding

Open Educational Resources Use others and share our digital content Move toward open textbooks

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Work Completed Elluminate (system + HECB) - DEMO

1,290 faculty & staff accounts 3,010 rooms online 671 meetings have taken place $155K / year (unlimited license, hosting, training)

WashingtonOnline “Angel” LOR, sharing courses, ePortfolio

Open textbooks – joined CCC OER 24/7 virtual library reference: $12K / year

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Work Completed

Reduced WashingtonOnline Technology Fee

Old WAOL Technology Fee: $8 / credit / student / course

New WAOL Technology Fee: $4 / user / quarter Unlimited use: one or more ANGEL courses, ePortfolios

and/or collaboration spaces Old: Three 5-credit courses in WAOL was $120 New: Three (or more) 5-credit courses in WAOL is $4

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Work Completed

CheckOutACollege http://checkoutacollege.com Over 14,000 visitors in nine months; Nearly 100,000 page views Students are spending over 7.5 minutes per visit Over 28,000 have visited the career interest

survey on the site

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Ongoing Online Learning Growth

2004 annualized FTE = 9,372 2008 annualized FTE = 18,038 Over 83,000 students learn online each year eLearning enrollments up more than 23%

(Fall 07 – Fall 08) Growth projections: by 2019, 51% or 78,344

of system FTE will be enrolled in online or hybrid courses

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Ongoing Online Learning Growth

45% of all CTC graduates earn 15 or more credits online or hybrid

2008 summer online enrollments increased between 30 and 216 percent

23 colleges offer 86 different degrees and certificates online

16 colleges offer an AA degree online Community and Technical Colleges teach over

80% of all online FTE in WA higher education

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2008 Online + Hybrid LearningGas / Carbon Savings

1.9M round trips avoided = reduced traffic congestion

2.1M gallons of gas saved

x 19.4 lbs = 42 million pounds of carbon dioxide that did not go into the air

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Presidents Understandthe Need to Change

Presidents voted unanimously to support the Strategic Technology Plan

 WACTC Technology Committee track implementation of the Strategic

Technology Plan: “Score Card” communicate system solutions

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Funding System Solutions is the Greatest Challenge

Leverage the buying power of entire system Cost effective to use common systems and

support services Large travel and per diem offsets using

technology Association Conference in Elluminate 1 ½ day Commission / Council meeting = $10K+

Partnerships: Public and private

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“This plan represents our sense of extreme urgency to catch up, keep up and provide all colleges and students the technological tools and services they need to

succeed in the 21st century.”

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What is Next for WashingtonOnline?

Colleges looking at ANGEL (lower tech fee) new capability to share content system-wide

Use existing Pooled Enrollment In bad budget times – colleges close programs.

How will you deliver your students the courses they need?

Enrolling College – keeps all FTE & Tuition Teaching College – gets $50/credit hour/student Student gets the course she needs! WashingtonOnline facilitates – takes no $

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What is Next?

Redesign and Open 100 courses Open textbooks, open courseware

“Go-Forward” (administrative systems) Leveraging networked IT Services “in the

cloud” Allows colleges to “go core”

i.e., focus on learning and student services

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Let’s Look @ Open

Textbooks

Dr. Judy BakerDean, Foothill Global Access

Director, Community College Consortium for Open Educational

Resources

(…next set of slides are “mashed up” Judy slides)

www.collegeopentextbooks.org

Community College Consortiumfor Open Educational Resources

Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks

in community college courses

cccoer.wordpress.com

Community CollegeOpen Textbook Project Goal

Identify, organize, and support the production and use of high quality, accessible and culturally relevant Open

Textbooks for community college students

Reduce the cost of

textbooks!

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CCCOER Membership

Remember this rite of passage?

The first testis students’ ability to afford the textbooks.

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Comparison of Statistics Textbooks

Publisher: Wiley Open: Connexions & QOOP

Downloadable version:

$77.50

Downloadable & online versions:

FREE

Printed bound version:

$141.95 new

$110.25 used

Printed bound version:

$31.98 new

Introductory Statistics by MannTable of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Organizing and Graphing Data Chapter 3 Numerical Descriptive Measures Chapter 4 Probability Chapter 5 Discrete Random Variables and Their Probability Distributions Chapter 6 Continuous Random Variables and the Normal Distribution Chapter 7 Sampling Distributions Chapter 8 Estimation of the Mean and Proportion Chapter 9 Hypothesis Tests About the Mean and Proportion Chapter 10 Estimation and Hypothesis Testing: Two Populations Chapter 11 Chi-Square Tests Chapter 12 Analysis of Variance Chapter 13 Simple Linear Regression Chapter 14 Multiple Regression Chapter 15 Nonparametric Methods1

© 2007, 720 pagesRequired textbook for Math 12 at Cabrillo College

Collaborative Statistics by Illowsky and Dean

Table of Contents

1. Sampling and Data 2. Descriptive Statistics 3. Probability Topics 4. Discrete Random Variables 5. Continuous Random Variables 6. The Normal Distribution 7. The Central Limit Theorem 8. Confidence Intervals 9. Hypothesis Testing: Single Mean and Single Proportion10. Hypothesis Testing: Two Means, Paired Data, Two Proportions11. The Chi-Square Distribution12. Linear Regression and Correlation13. F Distribution and ANOVA

© 2008, 600 pagesRequired textbook for Math 10 at De Anza College

Raise your hand if your college teaches

“Introductory Statistics”

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General Physics

        

600 pages

New $179.00 

Used

$125.00  

Raise your hand if your college teaches

“Introductory Physics”

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Raise your hand if your college teaches

Elementary Algebra

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Do you want to go through the rest of your general education textbooks?

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Benefits

Lowers the costs of educational materials

for students...

Benefits

Gives faculty tools for freedom from

publishers’ dictates about

learning, content, and delivery.

Challenges Faculty and student

resistance to change

Limited availability of high quality and comprehensive learning materials in some disciplines

Inadequate access to high-speed Internet by students

Challenges Compliance with accessibility requirements

Printing and computer lab demands on campus by students

Coordination with campus bookstores

Open Textbook Adoption

Locate open textbooks for consideration

Evaluate each textbook for selection

Customize, remix, and organize selected textbook

Disseminate in print and digital formats

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Locate Open Textbooksfor Consideration

MERLOT

Connexions

Wikibooks

OER Commons

Global Text Project

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Evaluate Each Textbook Quality Accessibility Cultural relevance Currency Authority of Source Reading level Depth and scope Quality and

Accuracy Articulation

Customize, Remix, and Organize

Disseminate Open Textbook Digital formats

Printed format

Student (DIY)

Campus bookstore

Campus print-shop services

Proprietary services

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Faculty Role

Need faculty to help create, review, and promote use of open textbooks

Support release timefor development and modification of open textbooks

Give credit toward tenure for faculty work on open textbook development

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Higher Education’s Future Role?“I’ve been trying to gain a better sense of the role universities will play in society in the future. At one point, we thought content was the value point of universities. Wrong. MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative changed that. Ok, then the interaction with faculty is the value point. And wrong again. Open communication and collaboration in online environments with networks of peers and experts gave us control over our interactions. Fine. Then the value point is accreditation. Yes, for now. Our ability to rate, review, comment, and provide feedback has increased with the development of the read/write web. I’m not sure how long we can build education’s value on the concept of accreditation.”

49George Siemens: blog post: explaining leads to information

Free Global Online University

Will this new higher education model succeed? http://www.uopeople.com/ NY Times Article But make no mistake… the powerful combination of

digital open educational resources, social networking, retiring baby-boomer volunteers, falling technology and bandwidth prices, variable cost structures, and the billions of people globally who need / want access to a higher education … is real – and it will drive change.

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Cable’s Answer… I think

Our new role (at least for now) is to be synthesizers and leverage networked IT, networked knowledge, and networked expertise… and put together high quality, cost effective learning environments that help more students get to higher levels of education.

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Dr. Cable GreeneLearning Directorcgreen@sbctc.edu

(360) 704-4334