Serving More with Less

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Serving More with Less

• Susan Powers Indiana State University
• Hilarie Nickerson University of North Carolina
• Phil Moss Oklahoma State Regents for Higher
  Education

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MERLOT at ISU
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Support of Laptop Initiative

• Main focus at this time
• Goes active Fall 2007
• Address how to use in the classroom questions
  of faculty
• Blended initiatives to appear as one

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Faculty Development

• Introduction to MERLOT
• How to Use MERLOT
• Using MERLOT in the classroom
• Extended faculty development with other MERLOT
  work

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Not Without Challenges

• Difficult to ascertain level of university
  support
• Balancing faculty and administration in MERLOT
  approaches
• Just one more thing

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Perspectives from North Carolina

• Hilarie Nickerson
• UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology
  Collaborative

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Public Higher Education

• UNC
• 16 campuses
• 200,000 students
• 10,000 full-time faculty

• NCCCS
• 58 campuses
• 200,000 FTE (800,000 headcount)
• 6000 full-time faculty

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Collaboration, Part 1Intra-System Initiatives

• NCCCS Common Curriculum Project
• Shared curriculum standards
• Common course library
• Standard course description format

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Collaboration, Part 1Intra-System Initiatives

• UNC Information Technology Strategy Project
• Teaching and Learning with Technology
  Collaborative
• Shared Services Alliance
• Office of Coordinated Technology Management

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Collaboration, Part 2Linking UNC and NCCCS

• Driving factors
• Evolution of distance / e-learning
• Need to support simpler student transitions
  between institutions
• State finances Legislative mandates

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Evolution ofDistance / e-Learning

• Correspondence courses
• Telecourses
• Videoconferencing
• NCREN, NCIH
• Course and learning management systems
• Digital content repositories

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SupportingStudent Transitions

• Goal to establish uniform and high quality
  access, opportunity, and service
• Agreement to establish and abide by standards
• Alignment of technical and procedural solutions

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Working Togetherin New Ways

• General education articulation agreements
• 22 programs in specific disciplines
• Additional partners for PreK-20 expansion
• Department of Public Instruction
• NC Virtual Public School
• LEARN NC
• Teacher professional development, AP courses
• Web Academy
• Cumberland County

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Legislative Involvement

• E-Learning Commission report
• PreK-20 focus
• Develop high quality instructor training and
  support tools
• Develop student support resources
• Establish North Carolina Learning Object
  Repository (NCLOR), library of sharable digital
  content

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Legislative Involvement

• SB622
• 22 NCCCS / UNC initiative
• Develop online resources for education programs
• 1 million recurring for NCCCS, 1 million for
  UNC
• Later Recurring for UNC also?

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NCCCS / UNC Plans for a Learning Object Repository

• Initially, use SB622 22 funding to establish
  focused LOR
• Resources for online 22 education programs
• Expand to become full NCLOR (PreK-20)
• Join SREB SCORE initiative
• SREB Southeastern Regional Education Board
• SCORE Sharable Content Object Repositories in
  Education

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NCLOR Behind the Scenes

• LMS independent
• Accessible by both commercial and open source LMS
  products
• Scalable, with aggregate FTE / enrollment
  licensing
• Conform to existing protocols and standards
• Cataloging, metadata, retrieval, sharing
• Accessibility, intellectual property
• ID management, security
• SREB SCORE, IEEE, SCORM, CORDRA

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The Oklahoma State System of
Higher Education
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Total Educational Revenues per FTE by State
Percent Change and Current Standing Relative to
U.S. Average
OK
Source SHEEO SHEF
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The Oklahoma Challenge
by working together, faculty can provide
higher-quality learning experiences in more
cost-effective waysThe product of this work
would be a toolkit of teaching processes/
materials for voluntary use by faculty across
Oklahoma colleges and universities
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The Plan

• 2 Disciplines
• A specialized, low-enrollment discipline
• (Ecology)
• A general, high-enrollment discipline
• (Mathematics)
• 2 Levels of Granularity
• Big
• (Course Level)
• Small
• (Learning Objects/Modules)

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IMPROVING QUALITY AND REDUCING
COSTSRedesigning Campus Learning Environments
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THE ONE PERCENT SOLUTION

• Maricopa Community College District
• 200,000 students
• 2,000 course titles
• 25 courses 44 of enrollment

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REDESIGN in Oklahoma

• East Central University
• Rogers State University
• University of Central Oklahoma
• Connors State College
• Oklahoma City Community College
• Tulsa Community College

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Academic Efficiency The 99 Solution

• Restructuring? small fraction of courses (1)
• Modules/Learning Objects ? all courses
• Smaller increases in efficiency possible per
  course, but in a much larger number of courses.
• Less resource intensive more flexible than
  redesign

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INBRE
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Adult Degree Completion Program
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Questions?