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3. A Year On the Front Lines with Adaptive Learning Content
Karen

4. Goals of the Presentation
Share experience with personalized learning courseware pilot
Discuss why innovation in personalized learning is worth exploring
Explore opportunities and challenges associated with using courseware at scale
Reflect on key takeaways from learning technology innovation initiatives

5. About UMUC

6. Facts About Lumen Purpose:
Make great learning opportunities available to all students, regardless of socioeconomic background.
We do this through effective use of open educational resources.
Facts
formed in 2012
based in Portland, OR
100+ institutional clients
$5 million+ in textbook savings in AY
Next Generation Courseware Challenge grantee
Co-founded by David Wiley & Kim Thanos

7. UMUC: Focus of Engagement
Forwarding the Agenda for Adaptive
OER focused approach
UMUC has adopted an 100 % OER approach at the Undergrad level
Two-sigma approach intriguing
mastery learning aligns with project-based approach of UMUC’s new learning model
Faculty toolset that would enable more targeted, efficient and effective interactions between faculty and students
Karen

8. UMUC Initial Implementation Lumen Learning
Fall 2016
Econ 201: Principle of Macroeconomics
Econ 203: Principles of Microeconomics
BMGT 110: Introduction to Business and Management
Spring 2016
MKTG 310: Marketing Principles Fall 2016

9. Social Dialogue: Adaptive Learning / OER
What is your institution doing with adaptive learning?
What is your institution doing with open educational resources?
What are you doing that brings these things together?
Use OLC streaming chat or Twitter hashtag: #OLCtop3
Karen
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10. Courseware Genesis: 2 Sigma
Hypothesis:
Bloom’s 2 sigma research
One-on-one
tutoring
Mastery vs.
time-based learning

11. Approach: Combine Four Proven Interventions
Use engaging, well-designed OER content
Provide automatic access to all students via LMS
Open Educational Resources
Encourage frequent feedback, practice, assessment as a learning activity
Align all course elements with defined learning outcomes
Mastery Learning
Strengthen metacognition; build better learners
Coach students on where to focus, how to learn
Personalization
Nurture and encourage the learning process
Make it easier to offer individualized outreach when and where needed
Faculty+Student Connection
Karen

12. Intervention 1: OER + Automatic Access via LMS
Canvas
D2L
Blackboard

13. Intervention 2: Learning Activities to Develop Mastery

14. Intervention 3: Embedded, Personalized Feedback

15. Intervention 4: Efficient, Individualized Outreach

16. Social Dialogue: Challenges, Victories, Lessons
What key challenges, victories and lessons learned have you taken away from innovation initiatives?
What insights that we’re sharing apply to innovation projects you’re leading or considering?
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Karen
#OLCtop3

17. Top Three Takeaways: Victories
Lumen Perspective
Documented improvement in student outcomes: Lower drops & withdrawals, higher course throughput
Powerful impact of individualized messaging
Use of learning data to drive continuous improvement
Karen
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18. Top Three Takeaways: Victories
UMUC Perspective
Creating sustainable, high quality open source content opportunities for students
Faculty messaging via Waymaker a plus for students
Innovative use of Common Cartridge to accelerate courseware installations
Karen
#OLCtop3

19. Example: Faculty-Student Messaging
From:
To: Microeconomics Instructor
… I appreciate all the times you went out of your way to me tips to do better the next week and even compliment me when I showed improvement. No other teacher has done that for me and especially since this is an online course and there is no in person interaction, it just made me feel pretty good to know I had a teacher always looking out for my best interest. 
From: Microeconomics
I wanted to share with you this student's perspective on how cared for he felt in this course.  He was contacted almost solely through the Waymaker automatic messaging. I am really impressed.

20. Top Three Takeaways: Challenges
Lumen Perspective
Delivering courseware in time for pilot partners to implement effectively
Managing iterative nature of innovation and pilots with the realities of live courses, students and instructors
Encouraging humans to change, in order to improve learning
Karen
#OLCtop3

21. Top Three Takeaways: Challenges
UMUC Perspective
Alignment of courseware changes and term schedules
Scaling online delivery with continuous improvement approach to courseware
Scaling to broader faculty group while ensuring courseware’s pedagogy is broadly understood
Karen
#OLCtop3

22. Top Three Takeaways: Lessons Learned
Lumen Perspective
If behaviors don’t change, student outcomes don’t change. And change is hard.
Successful projects optimize product and practice, together
Different organizational environments may require very different types and levels of support in order to succeed
Karen
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23. Top Three Takeaways: Lessons Learned
UMUC Perspective
Innovation work requires Iteration and Flexibility
Innovation work requires culture shifts
Karen
#OLCtop3

24. Social Dialogue: Lessons
What lessons do you wish vendors/solution providers would take away from innovation initiatives you’ve worked on together?
What lessons do you wish institutions would take away from innovation initiatives you’ve worked on together?
Use OLC streaming chat or Twitter hashtag: #OLCtop3
Karen
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25. Extending the Collaboration
USM is a “microcosm” of public higher education (research intensive, HBCUs, regional comprehensives, UMUC)
USM’s Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation charged scaling promising technologies/practices.
Partnership with UMUC to help identify what some of those models might be.
Working with UMUC/Lumen to explore next steps, specifically with developmental courses.
How do we generalize UMUC’s “lessons learned” and apply to more traditional institutions?
Karen

26. THANK YOU Cristi Ford cristi.ford@umuc.edu Julie Curtis @drmotx
@juliekcurtis
@lumenlearning
Sharon Goodall
@sharongoodall