IMPROVING LEARNING AND REDUCING COSTS. New Models for Online Learning

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1 IMPROVING LEARNING AND REDUCING COSTS New Models for Olie Learig

2 HIGHER EDUCATION S CHALLENGES Access Quality Cost How ca iformatio techology help?

3 ASSUMPTIONS THAT GET IN THE WAY Improvig quality meas icreasig cost Addig IT icreases cost Usig IT may eve threate quality

4 The biggest obstacle to iovatio is thikig it ca be doe the old way.

5 Faced with the ivetio of the telegraph... Buy faster horses! Get better riders!

6 ... the first motio picture that stopped filmig stage plays

7 Techique Lags Behid Techology

8 TRADITIONAL INSTRUCTION Semiars Lectures

9 BOLT-ON INSTRUCTION

10 PROGRAM IN COURSE REDESIGN To ecourage colleges ad uiversities to redesig their approaches to istructio usig techology to achieve cost savigs as well as quality ehacemets. $6 millio 30 projects

11 THE ONE PERCENT SOLUTION Maricopa Commuity College District 200,000 studets 2,000 course titles 25 courses = 44% erollmet All CCs = 51% All four-year = 35%

12 THE ONE PERCENT SOLUTION Eglish (7) Psychology (1) Mathematics (5) Fitess (1) Sociology (1) Computig (1) Philosophy (1) Ecoomics (2) Biology (2) Accoutig (1) EMT (1) Spaish (1) Chemistry (1)

13 ROUND I INSTITUTIONS 20,585 Studets Aually IUPUI (Sociology) Pe State (Statistics) Rio Salado College (College Algebra) SUNY at Buffalo (Computer Literacy) U of Cetral Florida (America Govermet) U of Colorado-Boulder (Astroomy) U of Illiois-Urbaa Champaig (Statistics) U of Souther Maie (Psychology) U of Wiscosi-Madiso (Chemistry) Virgiia Tech (Liear Algebra)

14 ROUND II INSTITUTIONS 14,119 Studets Aually Cal Poly Pomoa (Psychology) Caregie Mello Uiversity (Statistics) Fairfield Uiversity (Biology) Riverside Commuity College (Math) The Uiversity of Alabama (Math) Uiversity of Dayto (Psychology) Uiversity of Idaho (Math) The Uiversity of Iowa (Chemistry) Uiversity of Massachusetts (Biology) Uiversity of Teessee (Spaish)

15 ROUND III INSTITUTIONS 18,734 Studets Aually Brigham Youg U (Eglish Compositio) Drexel U (Computer Programmig) Florida Gulf Coast U (Fie Arts) Iowa State U (Discrete Math) Norther Arizoa U (College Algebra) Ohio State U (Statistics) Portlad State U (Itroductory Spaish) Tallahassee CC (Eglish Comp) U of New Mexico (Itro Psychology) U of Souther Mississippi (World Lit)

16 QUANTITATIVE (13) Mathematics Iowa State Uiversity Norther Arizoa Uiversity Rio Salado College Riverside CC Uiversity of Alabama Uiversity of Idaho Virgiia Tech Statistics Caregie Mello Uiversity Ohio State Uiversity Pe State U of Illiois-Urbaa Champaig Computer Programmig Drexel Uiversity Uiversity at Buffalo

17 Biology SCIENCE (5) SOCIAL SCIENCE (6) Fairfield Uiversity Uiversity of Massachusetts Chemistry Uiversity of Iowa U of Wiscosi- Madiso Astroomy U of Colorado- Boulder Psychology Cal Poly Pomoa Uiversity of Dayto Uiversity of New Mexico U of Souther Maie Sociology IUPUI America Govermet U of Cetral Florida

18 HUMANITIES (6) Eglish Compositio Brigham Youg Uiversity Tallahassee CC Spaish Portlad State Uiversity Uiversity of Teessee Fie Arts Florida Gulf Coast Uiversity World Literature Uiversity of Souther Mississippi

19 REDESIGN CHARACTERISTICS Redesig the whole course, ot just a sigle class Emphasize active learig; greater studet egagemet with the material ad with oe aother Rely heavily o iteractive software used idepedetly ad i teams Provide 24 x 7 access to olie learig resources Provide o-demad, idividualized assistace Improvig the Quality of Studet Learig

20 REDESIGN CHARACTERISTICS Emphasize practice, feedback, reiforcemet Respod to differeces i learig style Use course maagemet software to moitor studet performace Automate gradig of homework, quizzes, exams Replace sigle mode istructio with differetiated persoel strategies Techology eables good pedagogy with large #s of studets.

21 IMPROVED LEARNING OUTCOMES Pe State - 68% o a cotet-kowledge test vs. 60% UB - 56% eared A- or higher vs. 37% CMU - scores o skill/cocept tests icreased by 22.8% Fairfield 88% o cocept retetio vs. 79% U of Idaho 30% eared A s vs. 20% UMass 73% o tougher exams vs. 61% FGCU - 85% o exams vs. 72%; 75% A s ad B s vs. 31% USM - scored a full poit higher o writig assessmets IUPUI, RCC, UCF, U of S Maie, Drexel ad U of Ala - sigificat improvemets i uderstadig cotet 25 of 30 have show improvemet; 5 have show equal learig.

22 REDUCTION IN DFW RATES U of Alabama 60% to 40% Drexel 51% to 38% Tallahassee CC 46% to 25% Rio CC 41% to 32% IUPUI 39% to 25% UNM 39% to 23% U of S Maie 28% to 19% U of Iowa 25% to 13% Pe State 12% to 9.8%

23 VARIETY OF WAYS TO REDUCE COSTS (Variety of Istructioal Models) Maitai costat erollmet while reducig resources Icrease erollmets while maitaiig resources Reduce course repetitios Do two or more simultaeously

24 COST SAVINGS RESULTS Redesiged courses reduce costs by 40% o average, with a rage of 20% to 77%. Collectively, the 30 courses projected a savigs of about $3.6 millio aually. Fial results show actual aual savigs of $3.1 millio.

25 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SAVINGS? $3.1 Millio Aually Stay i departmet for cotiuous course improvemet ad/or redesig of others Provide a greater rage of offerigs at upper divisio or graduate level Accommodate greater umbers of studets with same resources Stay i departmet to reduce teachig load ad provide more time for research Redesig similar courses Miscellaeous Offer distace sectios Reduce retal expeditures Improve traiig of part-time faculty

26 GENERAL BIOLOGY at Fairfield Uiversity Icosistet studet academic preparatio Iadequate studet iteractio with learig materials ad complex topics Iadequate use of moder techology Iability of studets to retai what they have leared (amesia) Iability of studets to apply biological priciples to other disciplies (iertia) Memorizatio vs. Applicatio of Scietific Cocepts

27 ACADEMIC GOALS Ehace quality by idividualizig istructio Focus o higher-level cogitive skills Create both team-based ad idepedet ivestigatios Use iteractive learig eviromets i lectures ad labs to illustrate difficult cocepts to allow studets to practice certai skills or test certai hypotheses to work with other studets to ehace the learig ad discussio of complex topics

28 Traditioal 7 sectios (~35) 7 faculty 100% wet labs $131,610 $506 cost-per-studet Redesig 2 sectios (~140) 4 faculty 50% wet, 50% virtual $98,033 $350 cost-per-studet Cotet mastery: sigificatly better performace Cotet retetio: sigificatly better (88% vs. 79%) Course drops declied from 8% to 3% Next course erollmet icreased from 75% to 85% Declared majors icreased by 4%

29 FIVE REDESIGN MODELS Supplemetal Add to the curret structure ad/or chage the cotet Replacemet Bled face-toface with olie activities Emporium Move all classes to a lab settig Fully olie Coduct all (most) learig activities olie Buffet Mix ad match accordig to studet prefereces

30 FULLY ONLINE MODEL Traditioal Redesig Redesig oe class Redesig whole course Emphasize istructor-tostudet iteractio Istructor does all gradig ad provides all studet feedback Emphasize studet-tostudet iteractio ad teamig Automate gradig ad studet feedback Use a sigle persoel strategy Use a differetiated persoel strategy

31 RIO SALADO COLLEGE Pre-Calculus Mathematics Traditioal 4 courses taught by 4 istructors Studet iteractio = each istructor $49 cost-per-studet Retetio = 59% Redesig 4 courses taught by 1 istructor Studet iteractio = iteractive software, 1 course assistat, ad 1 istructor $31 cost-per-studet Retetio = 65%

32 U. OF S. MISSISSIPPI World Literature Traditioal sectios (~65) Taught by 8 faculty ad 8 adjucts Faculty do all gradig $70 cost-per-studet Redesig Sigle olie sectio Team-taught by 4 faculty ad 4 TAs 50% automated gradig via WebCT; 50% TAs $31 cost-per-studet Redesig triples course capacity.

33 WHAT DO THE FACULTY SAY? It s the best experiece I ve ever had i a classroom. The quality of my worklife has chaged immeasurably for the better. It s a lot of work durig the trasitio-- but it s worth it.

34 FOR MORE INFORMATION Full project plas Moograph Progress reports Completed course plaig tools Project cotacts Dr. Carol A. Twigg, Executive Director

35 IT S NOT HOW FAST YOU RUN; IT S HOW YOU RUN FAST. ARE YOU TAKING FULL ADVANTAGE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY?