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‘That’s What She Said!”
Myths or Realities?
Barry Dahl
Excellence in e-Education
Barry Dahl dot com
Gender & Life Experience?
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Male
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13%
26%
16%
45%
1. Female, under 40 yrs
2. Female, 40+ years
3. Male, under 40 yrs
4. Male, 40+ years
Your Online Teaching Experience?
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Less
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33%
42%
6%
18%
1. Never taught online
2. Taught 1 or 2 courses
3. Less than 5 years
4. 5 years or more
Online Courses and Developmental Education
Data from Lake Superior College 2009-2010 academic year
#1
“Best Practices”
• NCDE Director, Dr. Hunter Boylan
• Keynote speech: “Best Practices in Developmental Education.”
• During Q & A, he was asked to share examples of good practice in offering developmental courses via online delivery.
His Response?
“There aren’t any!”
He Continued
He went on to say that the completion rates (or success rates) in online developmental courses “are abysmal. Way below the rates for on-ground courses. ”
#1: Reality or Myth?
78%
22% 1.Reality
2.Myth
Developmental Courses Cannot be Effectively Taught Online
Who Thinks This is True?
50 Less than 5 years
40 Male, under 40 yrs
33.33 5 years or more
18.18 Never taught online
14.29 Female, 40+ years
14.29 Male, 40+ years
Case Study – Lake Superior College
• Developmental Math Sequence – 3 courses
• First taught online during Fall 2002
• As of Spring 2010, a total of 91 online sections have been taught.
• MATH 0450 Pre-Algebra
• MATH 0460 Algebra I
• MATH 0470 Algebra II
Case Study – Lake Superior College
• Developmental Writing Sequence – 2 courses
• First taught online during Spring 2004
• As of Spring 2010, a total of 23 online sections have been taught.
• ENGL 0450 Writing I
• ENGL 0460 Writing II
Case Study – Lake Superior College
• Developmental Reading Sequence – 2 courses
• First taught online during Spring 2005
• As of Spring 2010, a total of 17 online sections have been taught.
• READ 0460 Reading II
AY 2010 Student Completion Results
• 510 students enrolled in online sections
• 2,226 students enrolled in on-ground sections
• Course withdrawal rates were identical at 15.7% for both groups.
Grades Earned
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
A B C D F FN W
LSC Developmental Courses - 2009-2010
Online On-ground
Passing Grades in These Courses
50%
55%
60%
65%
70%
C or better D or better
60.4%
67.5%
62.3%
66.8%
Passing Grades in Developmental Courses
Online On-ground2009-2010
AY 2010 Results
• More A’s were given in online courses: – 25.1% online
– 21.3% on-ground
• More F’s were given in on-ground courses: – 17.5% on-ground
– 16.8% online
• GPA in these courses: – 2.37 for online
– 2.31 for on-ground.
My Retort
Completion rates (or success rates) in online developmental courses “are no more abysmal than and NOT way below the rates for on-ground courses. ”
Discussion Time
Online Courses and Developmental
Education
Anyone Anytime
Anywhere
#2
#2: Reality or Myth?
63%
38% 1.Reality
2.Myth
Online learning enables Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere Learning
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Slow-speed High-Speed
5%
95%
Internet Access at LSC for Online Students
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Slow-speed High-Speed
5%
95%
Internet Access at LSC for Online Students
So
Not Just
Anyone
Course Syllabus • You MUST be online Tuesday
nights for live chat from 7:00 to 8:30.
“But I work Tuesday nights. If I can’t work, I can’t
afford to go to school.”
So
Not Just
Anytime
Course Syllabus • Exams are open Monday
nights from 7:00 to 9:00.
No Makeups! “But your exams
don’t work on my mobile phone – the
only way I can connect on Monday
nights.”
So
Not Just
Anywhere
Discussion Time
How Flexible are Your Online Classes?
How satisfied are online students with their college
experiences?
#3
#3: Reality or Myth?
81%
19% 1.Reality
2.Myth
Online Students are Less Satisfied with Their College
Experiences
Who said Reality?
40 Male, under 40 yrs
27.27 5 years or more
25 Female, under 40 yrs
16.67 Taught 1 or 2 courses
8.33 Female, 40+ years
Option 1 - PSOL
Why PSOL?
40
PSOL Basics There are 72 questions that comprise the PSOL. Average completion time is 15 minutes.
NOTE: questions are answered on a 7-point Likert scale, where 7 is high.
26 Priorities statements (can add 10)
7 Information sources about school/program
11 Factors to enroll in the program
3 Overall satisfaction questions
14 Demographics questions (can add 1)
The Importance of Importance
That’s all good,
but…….
Are online students, as a group, more satisfied than the on-campus students?
44 NOTE: SSI is the Noel-Levitz Survey for on-ground learners, PSOL is the Noel-Levitz survey for online learners.
45 NOTE: SSI is the Noel-Levitz Survey for on-ground learners, PSOL is the Noel-Levitz survey for online learners.
Discussion Time
Online Student Satisfaction
Two groups you hear a lot about:
1. Digital Natives
2. Non-Traditional Students
#4
#4: Reality or Myth?
59%
41% 1.Reality
2.Myth
Digital Natives are Very Different from Non-traditional
Students.
Generations
Digital Natives
Net Generation
Next Generation
Nexters
Texters
Generation Y
Generation Why
Millennials
Generation Now
iGeneration
Echo Boomers
Generation
Nintendo
Generation
Trophy
Generation
Screenagers
That’s Crazy Talk.
Let’s consolidate.
Digital
Net-Gennials
They have very few technology skills that we expect them to
use in higher education.
Whose problem is that?
Name this Device
Non-Traditional Students
Special Needs?
More crazy talk.
Let’s compare.
Conflicting Cottage Industries
• “Digital Net-Gennials” are loosely defined as being born from 1980 (or ‘82) to 2000.
• So, many of this “group” are between 25 and 30 years old.
• “Non-traditional” age students are usually defined as being 25 years and older.
So, which is it?
Treat them as
Digital Natives?
or as
Non-Trads?
Discussion Time
Digital Natives and Non-Traditional
Students
Sense of Community for Online Learners
#5
#5: Reality or Myth?
19%
81% 1.Reality
2.Myth
It is Important to Develop a Sense of Community for Online Learners
Why?
4
4.5
5
5.5
6
6.5
7
Importance Scale - PSOL PSOL – Importance Scores on 36 Items
Discussion Time
Sense of Community for Online Learners
Online Course Cheating
#6
#6: Reality or Myth?
59%
41% 1.Reality
2.Myth
Cheating is Rampant Among Online Learners
Who Says Cheating is Rampant?
58.33 Female, 40+ years
54.55 Never taught online
50 Taught 1 or 2 courses
37.5 Male, 40+ years
33.33 Female, under 40 yrs
33.33 5 years or more
20 Male, under 40 yrs
Really? Prove it!
Rampant Cheating?
Discussion Time
Student Cheating
Online Faculty Workload
#7
#7: Reality or Myth?
28%
72% 1.Reality
2.Myth
Online Faculty Work Harder
Guess Who Agrees with This
83.33 Female, 40+ years
80 Male, under 40 yrs
78.57 5 years or more
66.67 Female, under 40 yrs
66.67 Never taught online
62.5 Male, 40+ years
60 Taught 1 or 2 courses
50 Less than 5 years
Online faculty …
Are they the busiest bees?
Discussion Time
Hard Work
#8
Some things just cannot be taught
online
#8: Reality or Myth?
81%
19% 1.Reality
2.Myth
Public Speaking Just Cannot be Taught Online.
You can’t effectively teach Interpersonal
Communication online.
Public Speaking
Physical Education
STEM Courses
Developmental Ed
“On-Ground?”
Maybe some things shouldn’t be taught
in the classroom
Discussion Time
What can and can’t be taught online?
#9
Larger rates of non-completion indicates that
online learning is inferior to F2F classroom learning.
#9: Reality or Myth?
100%
0% 1.Reality
2.Myth
Larger rates of non-completion = inferiority of online learning.
Discussion Time
Should we expect non-completion rates to be
equal?
These young people today are great multi-taskers
#10
#10: Reality or Myth?
66%
34% 1.Reality
2.Myth
The human brain can multi-task.
Most Correct Answers?
100 Male, under 40 yrs
78.57 5 years or more
72.73 Female, 40+ years
66.67 Never taught online
62.5 Male, 40+ years
50 Less than 5 years
40 Taught 1 or 2 courses
Multi-tasking is a Myth
• Great Book
• Brain Rules, by Dr. John Medina
WRONG!
Discussion Time
What the brain can and cannot do
‘That’s What She Said!”
Myths or Realities?
Barry Dahl
Excellence in e-Education