Technology’s Role in the College Completion Agenda

December 3 – EDUCAUSE Live!Ira Fuchs, Executive Director

Next Generation Learning Challenges

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Our Partners

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More Employers Seek High-Teach SkillsEverest Herald | November 5, 2010

Biz-man:

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jobs; w

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Lack of education holding area workers backSouth Coast Today| November 2010

Skills G

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Searching for Skilled High-Tech WorkersNational Public Radio| September 2007

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“Employers indicate that, just

as the

challenges facing their employ

ees are more

complex today than in the past

, their

expectations of employees have

increased.

The vast majority… are looking

for

employees to use a broader set

of skills

and have higher levels of lear

ning and

knowledge than in the past.”

- Hart Research Associates, “Raising the Bar: Employer’s Views on College Learning in the Wake of the Economic Downturn,” January 2010.

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Top Skills 1) Effective communication (written and oral) 89 percent 2) Critical thinking 81 percent3) The ability to analyze and solve complex problems 75

percent4) Teamwork 71 percent 5) Innovation and creativity 70 percent6) The ability to locate, organize, and evaluate information from

a variety of sources 68 percent

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It’s about creating the right workforce.

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By 2018, i

t is estim

ated that

jobs

requiring

some type

of postsec

ondary

education

will make

up 64 perc

ent of the

workforce.

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Lumina Fou

ndation fo

r Educatio

n

By The Numbers

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Less than

half of fi

rst-time,

full-time

students c

omplete th

eir four y

ear degree

s

within six

years. Or

two-year

degrees

within thr

ee years.

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ional Cent

er for Edu

cation Sta

tistics, 2

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By The Numbers

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In four-ye

ar schools

, 45 perce

nt of stud

ents

work more

than 20 ho

urs per we

ek.

-- “With T

heir Whole

Lives Ahe

ad of Them

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Agenda

By The Numbers

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It’s about ensuring students make it to the finish line.

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More than

one-third

of full-ti

me college

and univer

sity stude

nts need r

emedial

classes.

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American S

chools, 20

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By The Numbers

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It’s about our nation’s vitality and security.

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It’s about Next Generation Learning Challenges.

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Questions?

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About NGLC

Our Goal: Dramatically improve college readiness and completion in the United States, especially among low-income adults, through the applied use of technology.

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NGLC’s Role

John E. Lester

Shimgray

• Technology focused• Collaboration• Bridging secondaryand postsecondary• Emphasis on scale and adoption

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Program Components

Investment Capital

Evidence Building

Community Engagement

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Focus on Proven Solutions

• Breaking down silos• Moving past “not invented here” • Bringing innovation to more students, more campuses

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“New media and techn

ology have a critica

l role

to play in the futur

e of education. But

regardless of the po

tential they may sho

w in

their audition, new

media and technology

will

get to act only thos

e parts in which we

cast

them. From my perspe

ctive, the only legi

timate

role for new media a

nd technology in edu

cation

is to increase our c

apacity to be genero

us with

one another.”

- David Wiley, “Openness as Catalyst for an Educational Reformation,” EDUCAUSE Review

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Blended Learning

Why blended learning?

• Diverse learning styles • Flexibility• Student-centered design• Learning outcomes

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Blended Learning

Charles Dziuban, Joel Hartman, and Patsy Moskal, “Blended Learning,” ECAR Research Bulletin, 2004, http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERB0407.pdf.

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Learner Analytics

Why analytics?

• Access to data• Ability to predict• Potential for intervention and mentoring

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Learner Analytics

Kimberly E. Arnold, “Signals: Applying Academic Analytics,” EDUCAUSE Quarterly 33, no. 1, 2010.

http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/SignalsApplyingAcademicAnalyti/199385.

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Deeper Learning and Engagement

John E. Lester

Shimgray

Why engagement?

• Content retention• 21st century skills• Student persistence• Breaking down the technological silos

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Deeper Learning and Engagement

Ina Hzzzzotshot

Chris Dede, “Immersive Interfaces for Engagement and Learning,” Science 323, no. 5910 (January 2009), 66–69, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5910/66.

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Open Core Courseware

Why OER?

• Reducing redundancy• Empowering faculty • Sharing best practices• Anytime, anywhere

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Open Core Courseware

Marsha Lovett, Oded Meyer, and Candace Thille, “The Open Learning Initiative: Measuring the Effectiveness of the OLI Statistics Course in Accelerating Student Learning,” Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2008, http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/publications/71.

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Questions?

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Overall Considerations

• Gatekeeper Courses• Emphasis on scale and adoption• Target outcomes: • Course completion• Persistence• Mastery of subject matter• Mastery of learning outcomes

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Wave One Funding

• $250,000 for blended learning, deeper learning and engagement, and learner analytics• $750,000 for open core courseware• 32 total awards • More than 600 pre-proposals

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Additional Waves

• Late January: Grades 6-12• Watch the NGLC site or sign up for updates • Ideas for future waves? Tell us in the forums!

www.nextgenlearning.org/the-community/discuss

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Fostering Adoption

• Proposals must include: • How the model will be shared• Plans for sharing resources and developed technology with CC-BY license • Ideas for “scaffolding materials

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Building Evidence

• Sharing Knowledge: • Research from grantees• Innovations across campuses• Key resources and studies• Case studies

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Cultivating Community

Webinars Workshops Discussion Sessions

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Get Engaged

www.educause.edu/nglc

www.nextgenlearning.org

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Questions?

Ira Fuchs (ifuchs@educause.edu) www.nextgenlearning.org

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