An Action Plan for Higher Education Spellings Report

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An Action Plan for Higher Education (Spellings
Report)

• Accessibility
• "There are far too many Americans who want to go
  to college but cannotbecause they're either not
  prepared or cannot afford it.
• Affordability
• "There is little to no information on why costs
  are so high and what we're getting in return.
• Accountability
• "No current ranking system of colleges and
  universities directly measures the most critical
  pointstudent performance and learning."

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An Action Plan for Higher Education in Ohio

• Steve Acker
• On behalf of
• Collective Action
• and
• The Planning Committee for Higher Learning
  Accountability and Productivity

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Student Success
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Learning Outcomes

• Transfer Assurance Guidelines
• Credit Transfer in 38 degree pathways
• National Center for Academic Transformation
• 20-50 Rule
• 20 courses generate 50 of total college
  enrollment

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Financial Accounting
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Financial Accounting
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Digital Bookshelf (OhioLINK)

• Bedford, Freeman Worth Publishing
• McGraw-Hill Publishing
• Pearson Publishing
• Thomson Publishing
• More at the 2007 ODCE Conference March 5-6

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Assessing Learning Outcomes
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Student Success ePortfolio
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What if?

• Shared Infrastructure
• And/or interoperable open standards?

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What if?

• Sakai/OSP

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Who better than. . .

• Chuck Severance
• To help us consider what if?

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Contact

• Steve Acker (acker.1 at osu.edu) on behalf of
• Ohio Collective Action
• The Planning Committee for Higher Learning
  Accountability and Productivity
• Disruptive Innovation