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Promising Practices in Program Management and Data Use
DISTANCE LEARNING
June 4, 2015
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Webinar Agenda
Welcome
Introduction to Webinar Series
State Presentations
Questions
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What is the “Promising Practices in Program Management and Data Use” webinar series?
Part of the NRS project’s ongoing effort to help states and programs improve their use of data for program improvement
Each webinar will center on a specific strategy using data for program improvement.
Hear from states that have successfully implemented the strategy Find out what they have done What the data says
NRS DISTANCE LEARNING POLICY
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NRS Distance Education Policy
Defines distance education and learners Describes how to measure contact hours Describes assessment procedures Describes how to report on distance
education students
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Distance Education Defined
Formal learning activity where students and instructors are separated by geography, time or both for the majority of the instructional period.
Delivered through print, audio recording, videotape, broadcasts, computer software, web-based programs and other online technology.
Supported through communication via mail, telephone, e-mail or online technologies and software.
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Distance Education Students Defined
Students receiving distance education instruction
Students who receive both distance education and traditional classroom instruction State must have a policy that defines how local
programs are to classify the student For NRS reporting, states can count a student
only once, as either a distance education student or traditional classroom learner
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Contact Hours -12 Hour Rule
Must have 12 or more hours of contact to be counted
Contact can be a combination of actual contact and contact through telephone, video, teleconference or online communication where student and program staff can interact
Learner identity must be verifiable
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Proxy Contact Hours
States can optionally measure and report estimates of student contact hours (proxy hours) with these methods Clock Time –elapsed time that a learner is engaged online
or with software that tracks time Teacher Verification–hours for assignments based on
teacher determination of time needed to complete assignment
Learner Mastery--hours based on the learner passing a test on the content of each assignment
Proxy methods must match curricula and be described in state policy
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Assessing Distance Learners
Must be pre- and posttested tested like other learners
Posttest time must be after the same number of instructional hours Measured by proxy hours State policy must describe when if proxy hours
not measured All assessments must be face-face at a site
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Reporting Distance Education Students
Use Tables 4C and Table 5A for Reporting Report only distance education students in
these tables Include all contacts hours, including proxy
hours in Table 4 Also Report in Table 4 and All Other Tables
Include all contacts hours, including proxy hours
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Distance Learning in Minnesota
Tom Cytron-Hysom
Renada Rutmanis
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Distance Learning in Ohio
Donna Albanese
Tim Ponder
Marty Ropog
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QUESTIONS?
COMMENTS?
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