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J. Karl Clark

Professor

LTC, U.S. Army (Retired)

Coastal Bend College

kclark@coastalbend.edu

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To inform you on how Coastal Bend College leverages digital technology to improve outcomes for 21st century learners

Texas Rangers Alice, Texas 1878

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Situation

• Background

• Veracity Check

Concepts of Operations

• REVEL

• REVEL In Use

• Efficacy study

• Conclusion

• Q&A

AGENDA

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Sources• Alice Cooper School Out for Summer 1972

• It’s a REVEL –ution Bee Biscayne Newspaper

• REVEL-ution, March 2015, Bill Clough

• Higher Education Tech Decisions Magazine, Coastal Bend College

• “REVELs” In Learning Success with Pearson , Jessica Kennedy, January 2015

• Technology Supplement from Community College , Spring 2015

• Efficacy Study, June 2015, Nicole Kunzmann

• Who is Using Social Media?, RSO Consulting, Dec 2014

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Sources• Pearson’s Managing Director, Higher Education, Paul Corey, September 2014

• David Goolbar, They Haven’t Done The Reading Again, September 2014

• John Bean. "Engaging Ideas" 2011, John Wiley and Sons

• The Coming Ubiquity of Information Technology

• Kenneth C. Green, Everett M. Rogers, William H. Geoghegan, Jane Marcus and Larry Johnson, Change, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1996), pp. 24-31

• Beetles, Revolution, 1968.

• Pew Research Center Internet, Science & Tech, January 16, 2014.

• E-Book "Terror" Subsides, Alexandra Alter, New York Times, September 22, 20152014: 12 million e-readers 20 million sold in 2011, according to Forrester Research.

• Case Study Coastal Bend College, U.S. History since 1865, Face to Face, Hybrid, Internet, Distance Ed, Pearson, Nicole Kuntzman, Jan. 2016

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SituationBackground: Frustration

• Abyss of Knowledge?

- The RCA Dog Look

• No Reading or No Retaining (They Haven’t Done the Reading.

Again., Pedagogy Unbound, David Gooblar, Sept. 2014)

• It’s History of Government (YUK)

• Decrease in students’ ability to retain course content (Gooblar)

• 70% of students come to class not doing the reading assignment (Gooblar)

• Steady decrease in students’ writing quality (Gooblar)

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SituationBackground: Obstacles

• Reading remains a core and a critical foundational skill. (Corey)

• The ubiquity of information today demands “critical reading”

(The Coming Ubiquity of Information Technology, Kenneth C. Green)

• Advances in technology, pedagogy and learning science allows:

• Reading to be augmented with rich media

• Interactivity sparks engagement, curiosity and the excitement

of learning.

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Situation

Current My students’ life?

– Low socio-economic level

• Book cost is an issue

• Oil fields

– Single moms

– Balance Job, school, kids

– Part-time jobs

– Rural communities

– Long commutes

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SituationVeracity Check

• M.J. “Man in the Mirror”

– Is it me?

• I concluded, I need to overhaul my ways.

• Traditional ways are not effective. I have to do better.

• It’s Broke. Our Future is broke. That’s a major issue!!!!

• Has to be better ways for outcomes, but I don’t want

bells and whistles.

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CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF):

• REVEL took my classroom to the students.

• It enlightened their education through immersion, measured their performance and provided extant outcomes.

• Their success is literally in their hands. (BYOD)

• It’s an Interactive Text book.

• Therefore, I’m on a revel-ution to make a change.

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CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS

• I want my classroom and external classroom to come alive

- You don’t have to sit at attention to learn.

• I experimented with REVEL Fall 2014 U.S. History 1302 (after 1865)

• Three week trial. STUDENTS wanted to stay with REVEL

- So We Have.

• Currently: 36 classes U. S. History, Governments (State and Federal)

• All Modalities, Approximately 1,140 Students

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CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS

•What is REVEL?

• It’s an immersive digital learning tool (INTERACTIVE BOOK) that replaces both the

printed textbook and existing online learning tools.

• REVEL is designed for the way today’s students learn, think and consume content

• The average American is accessing daily news in similar bite-sized portion with 30

percent of the U.S. population consulting Facebook for news

- 10 percent consulting YouTube

- 8 percent consulting Twitter (Shocking New Social Media Statistics in America, Jay Baer, Convince and

Convert).

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CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS

What is REVEL?

• REVEL provides course content in bite (byte)-sized (Ruth Salinas) information similar to new tech savvy ways

• Integrated with narrative, interactive activities (maps, timelines) and videos that empower students to think critically, engage with concepts, and take an active role in learning

• It’s One place

• Performance Dashboard

• Its affordable to students (Approximately $65)

• REVEL allows me to nexus reading to comprehension to assessment

• REVEL, as with all of our “NextGen” technologies, is a first step

- Continuous improvement

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CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS

REVEL In Use

• Key Discussion Question from Book

- IRAN Treaty

• Video on Topic played in class

• Lecture on Nuclear Proliferation

• Digital Map media sources

• Additional reading assignments highlighted in digitized book, multiple sources

• Role play of NSC

• Decision making process

• Critical Thinking

• Class interaction on topic

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EFFICACY STUDY, Jan. 2016

• Key Results U. S. History after 1865

• Success rates increased from an average of 71.8% before REVEL to 86.7 % after REVEL implementation.

• Retention rates increased.

• Further, by engaging with course information outside of class and analyzing that information through class discussion, students learned how to form their own judgments while developing important critical thinking and communication skills.

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Average Success Rates

Average Retention Rates

100%

80%

72%

88% 89%

83%

100% 97% 98%

89%

80%

97%

60% 60%

40% 40%

20% 20%

0%

Fall 2014 Spring 2015

Semester

Summer 2015

0% Fall 2014 Spring 2015

Semester

Summer 2015

Without REVEL With REVEL

Without REVEL With REVEL

Figure 1. Success Rate without REVEL (Fall 2014, n = 131) vs. with REVEL (Fall

2014, n = 34; Spring 2015, n = 409; and Summer 2015, n = 139)

Figure 2. Retention Rate without REVEL (Fall 2014, n = 131) vs. with REVEL

(Fall 2014, n = 34; Spring 2015, n = 409; and Summer 2015, n = 139)

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CONCLUSION

• I encourage you to embrace the 21st century digital format

• Let’s agree to provide and deliver content in a manner that will engage students

- Facilitate true comprehension of course materials

- Provide foundational skills that will lead to lifelong success.

• Our students are our future

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Q&AKarl Clark

Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Army (Retired) Professor History / Government

Coastal Bend College Alice, Texas

kclark@coastalbend.edu

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THANK YOU!

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Shadi Rum

Student, Veteran, RN, CNOR

Saint Petersburg College

shadirum@gmail.com

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21st Century technologies continue to evolve and keeping students engaged requires the evolution of the tools we use to implement our learning.

All of us are here to advance education to the next level.

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The availability of dynamic applications captivate audiences of all types on mobile devices while we are still taking care of life's demands. Education comes to life.

Studying through these tools has had a therapeutic effect. When eyes tired I listened to audio readings. When I needed visuals, I looked at details of artwork in high definition.

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History and adventure come to life.

Two Menorahs

flank each side of

the Ark.

Wall painting in a

Jewish catacomb,

Villa Torlonia,

Rome. 3rd century

CE. 3’11”x5’9”

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THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH

Fragment of Tablet 11 From the Library of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh(Present-day Kuyunjik, Iraq)2nd Millennium BCEThe Trustees of the British Museum.

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How will education be seen through the eyes of future generations of students?

I asked my son Dean for his perspective on the passing of King Gilgamesh’s best friend Enkidu, who was struck down by the gods for slaying the Bull of Heaven. Such a concept and the focus on the dynamic pages at hand are shown with Revel. Understanding remains with interest and interaction.

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Interest through sense perceptions increase when stimulus keeps us active. Forcing education increases “cramming” while interacting with education fosters

knowledge.

Learning in the palm of our hands.

“Education is what survives after what is learned is forgotten.” B.F Skinner

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Shadi Rum

Student, Veteran, RN, CNOR

Saint Petersburg College

shadirum@gmail.com