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Southeast Missouri State University 30-Jul-11 Cross- Institutional Collaboration in Course Design and Delivery: Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri Ronald Rosati, Provost David Starrett, Dean Willie Redmond, Faculty Fellow

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Cross-Institutional Collaboration in Course Design and Delivery: Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri. Ronald Rosati , Provost David Starrett , Dean Willie Redmond, Faculty Fellow. Missouri. 67 Institutions of higher education Thirteen 4-year public institutions - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Southeast Missouri State University30-Jul-11

Cross-Institutional Collaboration in Course Design and Delivery:

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

Ronald Rosati, Provost

David Starrett, Dean

Willie Redmond, Faculty Fellow

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

230-Jul-11

Missouri

•67 Institutions of higher education

•Thirteen 4-year public institutions

•Pressures•Higher education funding cuts• Shifts in demographics• Providing access to higher education• Changing state of higher education•New technologies• Student expectations

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

330-Jul-11

Solutions

•State-wide collaborations• State-wide Course Redesign• NCAT Course Redesign to develop courses useable by all institutions

•Blended Learning• AASCU-University of Central Florida-Next Generation Learning Challenges grant to develop blended courses and materials available to all institutions in the collaboration and the state

• Collaborative Curriculum • Collaboration to deliver courses to students at multiple campuses to provide access to course and degree programs that are facing enrollment/resource challenges

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

430-Jul-11

Course Redesign

•National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT)•www.theNCAT.org

•Course Redesign:•Redesign courses to create efficiencies• Emphasize active learning•Use technology to improve student learning outcomes•Rely on readily available interactive software•Automate course components e.g., homework, quizzes, exams•Replace single mode instruction with differentiated personnel strategies

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

530-Jul-11

State-wide Course Redesign

•Each of the 13 public 4-year institutions is developing one redesigned course as part of the state-wide initiative

•Courses will be housed on centralized site accessible to all 13 institutions

•Most courses will follow the replacement model (blended)

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

630-Jul-11

State-wide Course Redesign

•Funding:•Governor’s office•Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) grant• Contribution from each of the 13 campuses

•Campuses providing additional internal support for the Course Redesign initiative

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

730-Jul-11

Process

•Each campus proposed one or more courses.

•NCAT reviewed courses and is providing feedback to the 13 CAOs

•CAOs will select one course from each campus to go through the NCAT redesign program

•Courses represent high enrollment undergraduate courses, in many cases general education courses

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

830-Jul-11

Administration

•University of Missouri System manages the initiative

•NCAT established web site for the program:

http://www.thencat.org/States/MO.html

•Campuses communicate and share thru email, physical meetings and conference call/webinars

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

930-Jul-11

Timeline

•Project initiated in August 2010 in response to challenge from Governor

•State-wide meeting in October 2010 kicked off the process

•Series of meetings in early 2011 facilitated by NCAT began the course proposal process

•Courses will be developed fall 2010 with pilot implementation in spring 2012 and full implementation Fall 2012

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

1030-Jul-11

Outcomes

•Thirteen courses will be redesigned following the NCAT model

•Courses will be made available to other campuses in the collaboration to be used

• Institutions don’t need to develop their own versions; shared courses reduce the redundancy across campuses in redesigning courses

•Campuses are seeing Course Redesign occurring outside the formalized process yielding efficiencies and increased student learning outcomes

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

1130-Jul-11

Blended Learning

•Courses with face-to-face and online components and class meetings

•Provides advantages of F2F and online learning in single course

•Provides greater access and flexibility in scheduling for students

•Takes advantage of online resources including textbook publisher course sites and materials, open courseware, courses packs and learning object repositories

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

1230-Jul-11

Next Generation Learning Challenges http://nextgenlearning.org

•Wave I Challenge:•Building Blocks for College Completion• Open Core Courseware• Blended Learning• Deeper Learning• Learner Analytics

•Partnership, focused on blended learning:•ASSCU•University of Central Florida• 20 institutions (6 in Missouri)

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

1330-Jul-11

Missouri

•Now a seven institution collaboration

•Blended English Composition course

•Target = low income, under age 26 (NGLC target)

•The seven institutions will develop a common online course or course components

•Each campus will teach a redesigned composition course utilizing the common online materials blended with face-to-face meetings

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

1430-Jul-11

Process

•UCF is providing training and support •Blended Learning toolkits http ://groupspaces . com/Blended• Training courses:• General blended learning• English Composition• College Algebra

•English Composition faculty from each of the seven campuses are currently attending the online composition and general blended training courses

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

1530-Jul-11

Process

•Campuses meeting with each other via email, conference call and physical meetings

•Online component will utilize materials from toolkits, existing online textbook publisher materials and other online resources

•Campuses will develop a course specific to their campus utilizing materials from the common online component mixed with face-to-face meeting learning activities

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

1630-Jul-11

Timeline

•Grant received in spring 2011

•Set up occurring over summer 2011• Identifying instructors• IRB requirements

•Faculty training occurring summer/early fall 2011

•Course development fall 2011

•Course pilot spring 2011

Intercampus Collaboration and Course Redesign in Missouri

1730-Jul-11

Outcomes

•Single common online component of English Composition course developed

•Blended composition course provides advantages of flexibility and learning through two modes•Staff and faculty on each campus gain expertese in blended learning which can apply to other courses•Consistent content of composition courses across campuses in the collaboration

“Collaborative Curriculum” or “Distributed Department”

Agenda

1. Describe general concept. What is it? Why do it?

2. Explain how it works.

3. Review examples of successful implementation.

4. Describe methods for successful involvement.

5. Provided an opportunity to initiate involvement

What Do We Mean by Collaboration

“Distributed Department” Multiple institutions… Contributing courses… To offer common components of a unique degree

How it works, in summary: A course is offered by one university, via distance education, to all

the partners Students enroll only at their home University No tuition or credits are exchanged among institutions Reciprocity is expected among partners

What We are Not Discussing

Articulation Agreements

2+2 Agreements

Transfer Agreements

Forming a New Collaboration

Why form a collaboration?:1. Improve student learning, academic quality

Use the most expert faculty in the collaboration

2. Expand breadth of offerings Teach low-enrolled courses economically Expand disciplines offered at each university Offer more topics within disciplines

Issues to Consider

Tuition income share - course originator share options: None or state appropriation component

Utilization of technology Webinar, on-line, blended, video networks

Equal contribution from, and benefit to, all partners

Transcripts, financial aid, etc. Access to LMS Calendar

Issues to Consider

Disciplinary areas of interest Low demand but high importance Lab vs. lecture courses Area of local expertise

Assignment of courses to specific institutions

Syllabi details, content of courses

Accreditation issues

Models to Consider

Learn from existing, successful models

If possible, consider joining existing consortia

Texas Electronic Coalition for Physics

Characteristics: Published schedule No tuition share Extensive documentation:

MOU, course equivalencies, teaching workload agreement, Bylaws explaining all details of coalition.

Regular coalition meetings 10 years of successful operation

Physics: http://physics.tamuk.edu/tecp/

Texas Family and Consumer Sciences Alliance

Characteristics: Sending institution receives state appropriation, receiving institution

keeps local tuition Primary mode of delivery: Trans-Texas Video Network

http://www.fcsalliance.org/

Tennessee Board of Regents

The Regents Online Campus Collaborative 6 universities, 13 community colleges and 27 technology centers

38,000 students attended classes in 2010

Closely administered through strong centralized system

http://www.rodp.org/

Excellent training materials: http://www.rodp.org/faculty/additional-faculty-resources

Other Examples:

Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance A multi-state alliance offering fully online programs in human sciences (primarily)

and agriculture Extensive documentation http://hsidea.org/

Cooperative Educational Leadership Program Collaboration to offer an UMC degree with support from multiple institutions:

UMC, UCM, MSU, NWMS, SEMO http://edd.missouri.edu/

The Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP) Send students to other institutions for degrees not offered at the home institution:

http://www.mhec.org/MidwestStudentExchangeProgram

The Missouri Example

Internal and external motivators

Survey to identify priorities

Pilot course offered Spring 2011

Seven courses offered Fall 2011

Initiative website: http://cstl.semo.edu/mace/

Survey results

Foreign languages -- Chinese 87.5% 7 Economics 62.5% 5 Physics 62.5% 5 Foreign languages -- Arabic 50.0% 4 Foreign languages -- French 50.0% 4 Foreign languages -- German 37.5% 3 History 25.0% 2 Philosophy 25.0% 2 Special-education 12.5% 1 Computer science 12.5% 1 Foreign languages -- Spanish 0.0% 0

“Please indicate which disciplines would most likely be offered collaboratively between your institution and another institution in Missouri:”

Core principles for the development of Collaborative Programs

Students pay tuition only at their home institutions.

Students register at their home institution. No credit transfer.

Provider institutions provide easy access to their technology infrastructure.

Instructors deliver grades to instructor-of-record at home institutions.

Courses follow the calendar of the provider institution. 

A committee of faculty representatives determine course details, quality control and course ownership.

Schedule of course offerings

Program Member Universities Courses Scheduled (tentative) Statewide ContactCourse Name Source

EconomicsUniversity of Central Missouri (UCM)

Northwest Missouri State University (NW)Southeast Missouri State University (SE)

Sports Economics (F-2011) UCM

Willie [email protected]

Labor Economics (F-2011) NWInternational Economics

(F-2011) SE

Econometrics (S-2012) UCMMoney, Credit & Banking

(S-2012) NW

Comparative Economics (S-2012) SE

Foreign Languages

University of Central MissouriMissouri Western State University (MW)

Missouri State University (MSU)Southeast Missouri State University

Methods for Foreign Language Teachers (S-2011) UCM

Mike [email protected]

Intermediate French Composition (F-2011) MW

German – Special Topics: Media (F-2011) UCM

Physics

Missouri Science & Technology Univ. (MST) Truman State University

Southeast Missouri State University Missouri Southern University

Missouri State University

Nanostructures: Intro. (F-2011) MST Bernard Feldman

[email protected] Pfeifer

[email protected] (S-2012)Dave Probst SE

Logistics to operationalize collaboration

Develop & sign MOU

Develop and publish operating principles

Develop collaboration website

Transfer ownership to departmental committees

Keep it alive!

Next Steps at Today’s Conference

Join with like-minded partners

Select collaboration model

Complete collaboration form to identify: courses, timelines, contact information, group leader

Report back to larger group

Follow-up after returning home

Develop your action plan

Questions, logistics….