Education in an Online World Gary Lopez, Ph.D. Executive Director Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

Education in an Online World  Who is this Lopez guy?  Monterey Institute for Technology and Education  A National Snapshot of Online Education  The National Repository of Online Courses  Mongabay.com: The future of online education?

Who is this Lopez guy?

Bay Area Science Fair 1967

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1976

Archipelago World Headquarters, 1981

We Wanted To Develop “Madden Football” for Chemistry

Archipelago, Monterey, 1993

October 14, 1993 Harcourt Acquisition Harcourt General Inc. said yesterday that its publishing subsidiary, Harcourt Brace & Company, had acquired Archipelago Productions Inc., a developer of CD-ROM and interactive computer software. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Archipelago Productions has offices in San Francisco, San Diego and Lake Tahoe, Calif. Harcourt General is based in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

1996

Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

A Non-Profit Corporation Established in 2003

Who Is MITE? Who is MITE? Mission To help meet society’s need for access to effective, high- quality educational opportunities in an era of rapid economic, social, and personal change.

MITE Projects National Repository for Online Courses MacArthur Series for Digital Media Developmental Math Enterprise

A National Snapshot of Online Education

A National Snapshot of Online Learning

The National Repository of Online Courses

A library of high-quality, multimedia rich online courses for high school, Advanced Placement ©, and higher education students and teachers.

To create a repository of high-quality, high school, Advanced Placement, and undergraduate courses and distribute them at no cost to students and teachers worldwide. In pursuing this goal, NROC achieves other important outcomes, including, addressing the needs of underserved students helping establish content and technical standards for online content fostering collaboration among content developers and users supporting the Open Educational Resource movement become financially self-sustaining The Goals of NROC

Open Educational Resources

OER Providers

NROC Library High School Course Foundations College Prep Physics I College Prep Physics II Algebra 1a Algebra 1b Curso de Algebra 1A (Spanish) Curso de Algebra 1B (Spanish) College Course Foundations US History I US History II American Government Introductory Physics I (algebra-based) Introductory Physics II (algebra-based) General Physics I (calculus-based) General Physics II (calculus-based) Introductory Calculus I Introductory Calculus II General Calculus I General Calculus II Environmental Science Non-Majors Biology Religions of the World Elementary Algebra Psychology Calculo General I (Spanish) Calculo General II (Spanish) Statistics for the Social Sciences Advanced Placement Course Foundations AP Environmental Science AP Physics B I AP Physics B II AP Physics C I AP Physics C II AP US History I AP US History II AP US Government and Politics AP Calculus AB I AP Calculus AB II AP Calculus BC I AP Calculus BC II AP Biology Coming in Algebra 1a and b (NEW) Pre-algebra Developmental Algebra Developmental Geometry Developmental Algebra 2

Value Propositions Editorially rigorous Media rich Instructionally sound

Customizable by a teacher, a district, or a state. Can be used within popular CMS’s and repositories. Value Propositions

Correlated with state standards and popular textbooks. Complete teaching materials. Value Propositions

Where does NROC content come from? Two sources : Contributions from academic institutions Collaborative Development managed by NROC Network

Network Members, Pilots, & Partners Academy School District 20 OnlineCO Adams 12 Five Star SchoolsCO Alabama Department of EducationAL Albuquerque Public SchoolsNM Anaheim Public Schools CA AP PrepNY Arizona Department of EducationAZ Aurora Public SchoolsCO Bambugare NetworkNA Bethel Covenant College (Uganda) Cal State Fullerton CA Center to Bridge the Digital DivideWA Chattanooga StateTN Chemeketa CCOR Clark County Virtual High SchoolNV Colorado Community Colleges OnlineCO Colorado Online LearningCO West Virginia Comm. Tech. CollegeWV Cooperstown Central SchoolNY CORE (China) CUDI (Mexico) CyberlearningVA Digital Learning CommonsWA Douglas County School District CO Eastside Preparatory SchoolNJ EPC-Summer AcademiesCA Esperanza Academy PA Everett Public SchoolsWA Florida Distance Learning ConsortiumFL Florida Virtual SchoolFL FSS Project T.E.C.HCA Georgia Board of RegentsGA Georgia Virtual SchoolGA Global Literacy FoundationAZ Greenville County Virtual SchoolSC Grossmont Union High School DistrictCA Gwinnett County Online CampusGA Hamilton County Virtual SchoolTN Hawaii Department of EducationHI HOPE AcademyAL Hudson County Schools of TechnologyNJ Idaho Digital Learning AcademyID iInstructor.netUT Illinois Virtual High SchoolIL Indian Prairie School District #204IL Iowa Community CollegeIA Iowa Learning OnlineIA Kent Technology AcademyWA Kentucky Virtual SchoolsKY Kentucky Community & Tech. College SystemKY Lake Tahoe Community CollegeCA League for InnovationAZ Los Angeles Unified School DistrictCA Louisiana Department of EducationLA Lubbock Christian UniversityTX Lubbock Independent School DistrictTX Maryland State Depart. of EducationMD Mason City School DistrictOH Mead School DistrictWA Michigan Virtual SchoolMI Mid-Hudson BOCES Consortium NY Minneapolis Public Schools OnlineMN Minnesota OnlineMN Mississippi Department of EducationMS Missouri Virtual Instruction ProgramMO Missouri Virtual SchoolMO Montana State University - BillingsMT Monterey Peninsula School DistrictCA myHimacha l(India) Myron B. Thompson Academy HI Network for Mercy EducationIL New Mexico Cyber AcademyNM New York Harbor SchoolNY Niles Township High School DistrictIL North Carolina Comm. College System NC N. Dakota Ctr. for Distance EducationND Northwest Area Education Agency Northern Humboldt Con. of SchoolsCA Northview High SchoolCA Omaha Public SchoolsNE Open High School of UtahUT Oregon Department of EducationOR OTAN (CA DOE)CA Partnership for InnovationsNE Petersons Pierce CollegeWA Portland State UniversityOR Poway Unified School DistrictCA Rochester Public SchoolsMN RUSDCA San Jacinto CollegeTX San Jose Education FoundationCA San Luis Obispo Cty. Office of Educ.CA San Marcos Baptist AcademyTX Santa Barbara Cty. Office of Educ.CA Saskatchewan Inst. of Applied Science and Tech (Canada) School District of the ChathamsNJ Silicon Valley Workplace CenterCA Silver State High SchoolNV South Carolina Depart of EducationSC Southern Regional Education BoardGA Sowelo Technical Community CollegeLA St. Petersburg CollegeFL Teachers Without BordersNA Tennessee Board of RegentsTN Council of Chief State School OfficersKY Tulare County Office of EducationCA University of California College PrepCA University of California IrvineCA University of Montana SystemMT University of Texas at BrownsvilleTX UT TeleCampusTX Utah Electronic High SchoolUT Valley Christian SchoolCA Virtual College of TexasTX Virtual School SocietyNA Virtual VirginiaVA The Weiss SchoolFL West Virginia University at ParkersburgWV Western Governors UniversityUT Whitfield County Career Academy GA

NROC Network Case Studies Offering Course Content Statewide CHALLENGE: Offer high-quality online course content statewide “The (NROC courses) were a unique find. The quality is extraordinary, the flexibility is exceptional, and the feedback we’re getting from our teachers is the content is amazing.” Steve Nelson Chief Information Technology Strategist, ODOE

NROC Network Case Studies Credit Recovery CHALLENGE: High percentage of students not passing or completing courses “The use of the new OPS-branded HippoCampus site is very exciting for us, providing an additional resource for our teachers and giving them the ability to create their own HippoCampus pages.” Rachel Wise, Ph.D. Director of Secondary Education, OPS

NROC Network Case Studies Sharing Through a Central Repository CHALLENGE: Promote content sharing and save development costs among 35 member colleges. "Starting a statewide digital repository is a challenge. At the core of the project, the repository must offer sufficient rich multimedia and high quality resources to attract and motivate faculty to use repository content. In Florida, we are licensing the high quality NROC content library to form that essential content core." Susie Henderson, Director, Orange Grove

NROC Network Case Studies Replacing Costly Textbooks CHALLENGE: Textbook prices are too high. On teaching US History without a textbook “... we turned to NROC. I left my discussion questions, midterms, and finals the same as they were when we used the textbook, so I could compare outcomes. I was happy to find that my students are right on track with the digital alternative... “ Karen Kaemmerling Chair of Social Sciences, CCCOnline

HippoCampus.org

HippoCampus: Fall 2009

Federal Stimulus and OER

Mongabay.com: The future of online education?

The Old Face of Education

The New Face of Education

Website raising interest in wildlife and wild lands while promoting awareness of environmental issues. Primary users are K-12 teachers and students. 60,000 unique users per day. What is Mongabay.com?

Mongabay.com Website Growth

Optimizing the site through a combination of keys words, links, bookmarking, etc. Mongabay.com skyrocketed in Google ranking in early Mongabay.com How did it happen?

Content Authority In the online world, traditional measures of authority (credibility) do not drive usage. Online Educational Resources A Cautionary Tale

Online Resources are dependent on the web and search engines - Access is a direct function of the index ranking; “first-page phenomenon.” Index ranking is a direct function of the primary measures of the ranking algorithm (e.g., links, key words, etc.) The use of Online Resources is a direct function of the site optimization. Online Educational Resources A Cautionary Tale What Drives Usage?

Education is dependent on authority tied to reputation based on certification (e.g., Ph.D.) - A degree from MIT is considered more valuable than a degree from a state college. The analysis/information of a Ph.D. is more trustworthy than that of a person without a graduate degree. The analysis/information of a MIT Ph.D. is more valuable and trustworthy than a person without a graduate degree. Online Educational Resources A Cautionary Tale What Drives Usage?

Putting these two statement sets together... Online Educational Resources are dependent on the web and search engines. Search engines do not include “authority tied to reputation based on certification” as a measure for determining indexing rank. The best optimized OER sites will be the most used and influential, not those with the most academically qualified content. Online Educational Resources A Cautionary Tale What Drives Usage?

Content Authority at Mongabay All the content at Mongabay.com has been created by Rhett Butler; no peer review, no editorial oversight, no certification. Copyright Notification at Mongabay – Mongabay.com is a web site based on the work of Rhett A. Butler. Mr. Butler reserves all rights to the contents and any use of this site. Online Educational Resources A Cautionary Tale

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