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eLearning: Expanding Access:How Digital, Networked
Technologies and SharingChanges Education
Cable GreeneLearning Director
http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen
Let’s talk about the big trends & how to prepare for inevitable change & how the Workforce Community can think in new
ways to prepare graduates for a digital, networked world…
Hold On!
“We are in the midst of a technological, economic, and organizational
transformation that allows us to negotiate the terms of freedom, justice, and productivity in the
information society”Yochai Benkler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lonewolf23/1570632701/
Yes… We Really are Networked… seamless connection of
people, resources & knowledge
digitization of content mobile, personal global platform for
collaboration outsourcing Anyone notice our
global economy?
"According to an IBM study, by 2010, the amount of digital
information in the world will double every 11 hours."
And we can makeall of our “digital stuff”available toall people…and most of itwill get used...by someone.
“Long Tail” of Publishing
long tail
$
HarryPotter
Hyper-geometricpartial differential
equations
http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart
We All Get to Participate
In a flat world, the artists, the synthesizers of ideas will rule.
And they will use web 2.0 software standards, and practices to distribute their ideas.
And they want services
like this:Backup
So how do we prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using
technologies that haven’t been
invented, to solve problems we
don’t even know are problems yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI
(1) Engage Participatory /
“Web 2.0+”
Tools & Practices
- JSB
RSS
Social Networking
Wiki
Share Video
Online Meetings, Conferences…
Elluminate• 1,500+ faculty & staff accounts• 11,300+ rooms created• 2,250+ meetings have taken place• unlimited license, hosting, training• 24/7 help desk• unlimited license, hosting, training
Blo
g
http://www.blogger.com
Useful or Stupid?
http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2009/08/14/findoerafrica/
(2) eLearningWhy call it
“eLearning?”
“Distance” is about geographic separation.
“eLearning” is about leveraging the unique affordances of digital, networked technologies to support new ways of learning in new spaces. Online, Hybrid, Enhanced
“eLearning”
Going to Web and Mobile
1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-080%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
51%
4%
Telecourse as Percent of Total eLearning FTEs
Ongoing Online Learning Growth
Over 96,600 students learn online each year
Online FTE up more than 22% Hybrid FTE up more than 45% 11 percent (and growing) of
community and technical college courses are fully online
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Ongoing Online Learning Growth
45% of all CTC graduates earn 15 or more credits online or hybrid
23 colleges offer 86 different degrees and certificates online
16 colleges offer an AA degree online
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Why does this growth matter?
Educate More Citizens
HECB Master Plan I. Raise educational attainment to
create prosperity, opportunity Policy Goal: Increase the total number of
degrees and certificates produced annually to achieve Global Challenge State benchmarks.
By 2018, raise mid-level degrees and certificates to 36,200 annually, an increase of 9,400 degrees annually.
2008 Online + Hybrid LearningGas / Carbon Savings
1.9M round trips avoided = reduced traffic
congestion
2.1M gallons of gas saved
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(3) Open Educational Resources
Because when we cooperate and share, we all win – exponentially. Faculty have new choice when building learning
spaces. …the more eyes on a problem, the greater chance
for a solution. Affordability: students can’t afford textbooks Self-interest – good things happen when I
share It’s a social justice issue: everyone has the
right to access global knowledge.
Why is “Open” Important?
Definition of OER
Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.
OpenLearn (UK) - DEMO OCW – MIT (MIT HS)
China Open Resources for Education has translated 109 MIT OCW courses into Simplified Chinese.
Rice Connexions
(a few) Open Content Repositories
Lenses @ Rice Connexions
social software for peer review & quality control
CaliforniaCommunity
CollegesWashingtonCommunity
Colleges
OhioCommunity
Colleges
and there is this smallcollection of articles:
The Old Economics
Print, warehouse,
and ship a new book for every student
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/2780164461/
The New Economics
Upload one copy, and everyone uses
it simultaneously
http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/
Making copies, storage, distribution
of digital stuff = “Free”
Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
2005 GAO report: College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the last two decades
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf
Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
The College Board reported that for the 2007 through 2008 academic years each student spent an estimated $805 to $1,229 on college books and supplies…
http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/trends_pricing_07.pdf
Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
The gross margin on new college textbooks is currently 22.7 percent according to the National Association of College Stores.
Products available in college stores are sold with a margin, as in any retail operation. Margin is the difference between cost and retail price, reflecting work required to bring products to market.
http://www.nacs.org/public/research/margins.asp
May, 2007: Dept of Ed.
http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf
Comparison of Statistics Textbooks
Publisher: Wiley Open: Connexions & QOOP
Downloadable version: $77.50
Downloadable & online versions: FREE
Printed bound version: $141.95 new $110.25 used
Printed bound version: $31.98 new
Why so urgent?
Consider One High Enrollment Course: English Composition I 37,226 enrollments / year X $100 textbook = $3.7 Million + (cost to
students) What if we looked at 100, 200,
300 high enrollment courses?
http://rtnl.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/thinker21.jpg
Work longer hours
Additional debt
Credit card debt
Not purchase textbooks
Impact on Students?
Math in Society (Open Textbook)
David Lipmann, Professor @ Pierce College
3,972 annual enrollments Textbooks savings to RTC
students? List of open and free textb
ooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses
We must get rid of our “not invented here” attitude regarding others’ content move to: "proudly borrowed from there"
Content is not a strategic advantage
Nor can we (or our students) afford it
Hey Higher Ed!
“As uncomfortable a proposition as this new openness may be for some, I believe it is the future of higher education.”
In web 2.0, everything is public & higher education needs to
get used to it.
Future of Openness in Education
David Wiley 2006. Open source, openness, and higher education.
What Happens if weDon’t Change?
Google, Amazo
n, Apple, O
pen Sourc
e,
Open Content, O
pen Textbooks…
Higher EducationFu
nct
ion
al P
oss
ibili
ties
Time
Harder to catch-up …
Or even understand.
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How is the fiscal healthof your local newspaper?
http://techplan.sbctc.edu
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“We will cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to
open educational resources.”
System Strategic Technology Plan Access for all students and all colleges Single, centrally funded solutions for
common systems Rule of 1: do it once Rule of 0: don’t do it
Don’t build software, don’t host servers Retain local branding and admin control All instructional technologies are architected
to make it easy to share content.
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But using open educational resources – and contributing to them – requires significant change in the culture of
higher education. It requires thinking about content as a common resource that raises all boats when shared. It requires replacing our “not invented
here” attitude with a “proudly borrowed from there” orientation.
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WA Legislation
SSHB1946 – two big ideas – share technology and share content.
(v) Methods and open licensing options for effectively sharing digital content including but not limited to: Open courseware, open textbooks, open journals, and open learning objects…
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Student Advocacy
WA CTC 2009 Student Voice Academy (1) CUTTING TEXTBOOK COSTS
“The high cost of textbooks is a burden to students. Textbooks available in a printable, online format as well as in a traditional format would make curriculum easily accessible to students and instructors. Legislation that requires college instructional divisions to enhance available college online options for every required textbook whenever possible is requested.”
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Redesigning 81 Common Courses
Foundation + Legislature + SBCTC + Colleges Increase number of gatekeeper course sections
available so students can get courses when they need them
Improve course completion rates Courses are digital – can be taught online, hybrid,
web-enhanced and/or faculty can re-mix Open CC Licensing – share with the world Free or very low cost textbooks / course packs
sections in 81 courses = $42M+ / year in textbook costs Develop a culture of sharing content in the WA CTCs
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Partnering with Consortia & ???
CCC OER List of open and free textbooks that may
be suitable for use in community college courses
WA CTCs redesign 80 courses Conversation with FL, CA, TX, CT, OH…
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Federal Movement on Open? Obama’s American Graduation Initiative
$50M / year for the creation of open courseware Senator Dick Durbin (IL)
$15M / year: Open Textbooks Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter
@ Seattle District OER leader when Chancellor @ Foothill-De Anza
Community College District Federal Research Access Act of 2009
increasing public access to academic research that is funded by the federal government (free after 6 mos)
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Important Messages are:
This is not about mandated curriculum.
All stakeholders need to be in the discussion.
Open resources provide more choice for faculty and lower costs (& increased access) for students.
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NEW HE Models are En Route
Choices:
(1) Open up andleverage global input
OR
(2) close up shop
Think Big Crazy Ideas…. We could share all of our instructional digital
resources including: courses, textbooks and library resources with the world… and, more important, use global digital materials.
We could use common teaching & learning, student services, and administrative technologies and support services.
We could design courses that enable and encourage students to contribute, change, remix course content.
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