Promising Practices in Program Management and Data Use

DISTANCE LEARNING

June 4, 2015

Phone lines are muted to minimize background noise. Dial *7 to unmute your line.

Phone lines are muted to minimize background noise.

To speak during the webinar,

unmute your line and then dial *7. When you’re done dial *6 to mute

your phone.

2

3

Webinar Agenda

Welcome

Introduction to Webinar Series

State Presentations

Questions

4

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

5

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

6

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.

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

proctored by program or state staff11

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

12

13

Distance Learning in Minnesota

Tom Cytron-Hysom

Renada Rutmanis

Dial *7 to unmute. Dial *6 to mute.

14

Distance Learning in Ohio

Donna Albanese

Tim Ponder

Marty Ropog

Dial *7 to unmute. Dial *6 to mute.

15

QUESTIONS?

COMMENTS?

Thank You!

Please join us for the next webinar.

16