Serving More with Less Susan Powers Indiana State University Hilarie Nickerson University of North Carolina Phil Moss Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education

MERLOT at ISU

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”

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

Not Without Challenges Difficult to ascertain level of university support Balancing faculty and administration in MERLOT approaches Just “one more thing”

Perspectives from North Carolina Hilarie Nickerson UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Collaborative

Public Higher Education  UNC  16 campuses  200,000 students  200,000 students  10,000 full-time faculty  NCCCS  58 campuses  200,000 FTE (800,000 headcount)  6000 full-time faculty

Collaboration, Part 1: Intra-System Initiatives  NCCCS Common Curriculum Project  Shared curriculum standards  Common course library  Standard course description format

Collaboration, Part 1: Intra-System Initiatives  UNC Information Technology Strategy Project  Teaching and Learning with Technology Collaborative  Shared Services Alliance  Office of Coordinated Technology Management

Collaboration, Part 2: Linking UNC and NCCCS  Driving factors  Evolution of distance / e-learning  Need to support simpler student transitions between institutions  State finances Legislative mandates

Evolution of Distance / e-Learning  Correspondence courses  Telecourses  Videoconferencing  NCREN, NCIH  Course and learning management systems  Digital content repositories

Supporting Student 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

Working Together in New Ways  General education articulation agreements  2+2 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

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

Legislative Involvement  SB622  2+2 NCCCS / UNC initiative  Develop online resources for education programs  $1 million recurring for NCCCS, $1 million for UNC  Later: Recurring for UNC also?

NCCCS / UNC Plans for a Learning Object Repository  Initially, use SB funding to establish focused LOR  Resources for online 2+2 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

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

The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education

Total Educational Revenues per FTE by State: Percent Change and Current Standing Relative to U.S. Average Source: SHEEO SHEF OK

The Oklahoma Challenge “… by working together, faculty can provide higher-quality learning experiences in more cost-effective ways…The product of this work would be a toolkit of teaching processes/ materials for voluntary use by faculty across Oklahoma colleges and universities…

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)

IMPROVING QUALITY AND REDUCING COSTS: Redesigning Campus Learning Environments

THE ONE PERCENT SOLUTION Maricopa Community College District 200,000 students200,000 students 2,000 course titles2,000 course titles 25 courses = 44% of enrollment25 courses = 44% of enrollment

REDESIGN in Oklahoma East Central UniversityEast Central University Rogers State UniversityRogers State University University of Central OklahomaUniversity of Central Oklahoma Connors State CollegeConnors State College Oklahoma City Community CollegeOklahoma City Community College Tulsa Community CollegeTulsa Community College

Academic Efficiency The 99% Solution Restructuring  small fraction of courses (~1%)Restructuring  small fraction of courses (~1%) Modules/Learning Objects  all coursesModules/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

INBRE

Adult Degree Completion Program

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