Distance Students Strike it Rich

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Montgomery CollegeGermantown Campus
Distance Students Strike it Rich!

• Presenters
• Karen Roseberry
• Tom Price
• Anita Crawley

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Webbed Advisors doing .
WEB ADVISING
A tom price production
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BackgroundMontgomery College Three Campus
Community College

• Plus
• School of Art and Design
• Off Campus Sites

.and 166 distant courses with 2,941enrollments.
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More Background Data.

• In Montgomery County the average adult has almost
  4 years of college
• Seventy-five percent of students transfer
• Counselors and Cadre (instructional faculty) do
  most of the advising
• Advisors Full-time and Part-time

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In 2004, 4,379 MC Students transferred to 42
different States
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Advising Problem Outdated, Complicated, and
Inaccessible Information

• Original Objectives (1998 circa)
• Distribute collegewide transfer information to
  both advisors and students
• Provide Montgomery College information to the
  Germantown Campus

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Unlike Caesars Gaul, we initially divided the
web world into two parts
Transfer Advising StuffAnne Schleicher
MC Advising StuffTom Price
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Transfer Advising Stuff
Links to other sites and to MC developed
information
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Links to popular college websites and Information
developed by Montgomery College (MC).
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Example of Information Developed by MC
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Montgomery College Advising Stuff
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(No Transcript)
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Links to Advisor, Department, Transfer
Information, and Specific Courses.
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Sample Syllabus
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Advising Worksheets
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Advising Worksheet for Biology
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AdvisorLocator
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Improvements Needed

• Web Sites need to be more student friendly and
  understandable.
• Presently written for the advisor and focus on
  what the advisor doesnt want to or cant
  remember.
• Organization needs to be reviewed and duplication
  reduced.
• Presently developed according to Larry the Cable
  Pullers principle Get er done!
• Instructional Departments need to post their own
  additional course information.
• Presently most give the catalog description or
  nothing at all.

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.and then Cyber Space Anita blew in from
Illinois!
..and changed our world forever!
Anne
Tom
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The Three Part World AFTER ANITA!
Anita Crawleys Service for Distance Students
Transfer Advising StuffAnne Schleicher
MC Advising StuffTom Price
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Anita leads the way in WEB Advising!From
Information Delivery to Distance Interaction
Online Student Companion
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Mentor Tom
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WCET The Scope
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CAS Standards for Distance Learners

• Institutions must provide
• appropriate student services for all students
  enrolled in Distance Education Programs 
• a fully functioning program of student services
• comparable quality to services provided to
  on-campus students

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Three Resources

• Online Student Success Center
• Online Companion An Online Students Guide to
  Success
• Online College Survival Course

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Online Student Success Center
Getting into MyMCFinding Your Online
CourseWebCT TutorialOnline Study
SkillsTechnical SkillsResearch on the
InternetAdvantages/Disadvantages of Online
LearningStrategies for Online Success
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Online Companion A Students Guide To Online
Success

• Purpose retention and community
• Delivered from WebCT course site
• Enrollment Students in all courses that use
  WebCT site fully or partially online
• Easy access to Distance Learning counselors and
  instructors as well as other online students
  (student to student)

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Online Companion - Tour
Online Learning Getting Started Online Learning
Success The Internet Communication Academic
Support The Library
Advising Modules Decision Making Goal
Setting Educational Planning Transfer
Planning Career Exploration Personal Barriers
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Sample Module - Tips for Online Success
Online Study SkillsLearning StylesTechnical
Skills
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Discussion Board
Topics for each module Introductions Campus
News Ask A Counselor Ask A Teacher Student
Lounge Information about online degrees
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Example Ask A Counselor
Which degree is best for me? What courses
remain? What transfer school is best?
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Online Companion Statistics

• Currently 4267 accounts students/faculty
• First 2 weeks of fall semester
• 200 discussion messages
• 70 emails
• Add spring and summer enrollments then clear
  website for next fall

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What Are Students Talking About?
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Online College Survival Course
OrientationCommunicationsEd PlanningLearning
StylesTransferCollege LifeTime
ManagementCareers
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Online Quizzes
Open Internet Unlimited Retakes Self
Assessment Automatically Scored
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Electronic Grade Book
Students keep track of progress See own records
only
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Assignment Drop
Student submits assignment Instructor grades
assignment Student retrieves feedback and
grade ALL AT A DISTANCE
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Ideas for the Future

• Create an online version of the group advising
  session that all new students are required to
  attend.
• Develop an Online Career Center
• Use an ePortfolio solution
• Figure out a way to improve and maintain all that
  weve created

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Web Addresses

• WCEThttp//www.wcet.info/
• Online Student Success Centerhttp//www.montgomer
  ycollege.edu/Departments/studevgt/onlinsts/
• Online Companion College Survival
  http//webct.montgomerycollege.edu/
• WebCT ID and Password guest_nb

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So who does the work?

• Add-on
• Release time
• New Personnel
• Review all job descriptions

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Sticky Wickets

• Workload- do virtual services equal campus
  services?
• Place- can this be done from anywhere?
• Fear of the unknown
• ADA compliance
• Confidentiality and other legal issues
• Getting away from organizational structure and
  THINK STUDENT

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What next?

• E-mail for students
• E-portfolio
• More marketing of distance services
• More coordination and evaluation

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How to get started

• Identify the key players
• Dont be discouraged by false starts
• Encourage all efforts
• Get rid of territorialism
• Piggyback onto distance learning
• Cross campus/cross functional team to look at the
  whole

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3 Wishes

• Tom doesnt retire
• Anita and Anne x 2
• More time for everyone

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Contact Information

• tom.price_at_montgomerycollege.edu
• anita.crawley_at_montgomerycollege.edu
• karen.roseberry_at_montgomerycollege.edu

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Discussion

• What is your college doing in the area of
  distance services?
• Do you have any sticky wickets? How are they
  resolved?

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And somewhere over the rainbow..
.everyone strikes it rich!