Presentation by Barry Dahl at Distance Learning Administrator's conference in Savannah. May 25, 2011.

1. Five Distance Learning Myths Explored and Exploded Barry Dahl Excellence in e-Education

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4. Online Courses and Developmental Education Data from Lake Superior College 2009-2010 academic year #1

6. “Best Practices” NCDE Director, Dr. Hunter Boylan Keynote speech: “Best Practices in Developmental Education.” During Q & A, he was asked to share examples of good practice in offering developmental courses via online delivery.

7. His Response? “There aren’t any!”

8. He Continued He went on to say that the completion rates (or success rates) in online developmental courses “are abysmal. Way below the rates for on-ground courses. ”

9. Case Study – Lake Superior College Developmental Math Sequence – 3 courses First taught online during Fall 2002 As of Spring 2010, a total of 91 online sections have been taught. MATH 0450 Pre-Algebra MATH 0460 Algebra I MATH 0470 Algebra II

10. Case Study – Lake Superior College Developmental Writing Sequence – 2 courses First taught online during Spring 2004 As of Spring 2010, a total of 23 online sections have been taught. ENGL 0450 Writing I ENGL 0460 Writing II

11. Case Study – Lake Superior College Developmental Reading Sequence – 2 courses First taught online during Spring 2005 As of Spring 2010, a total of 17 online sections have been taught. READ 0460 Reading II

12. AY 2010 Student Completion Results 510 students enrolled in online sections 2,226 students enrolled in on-ground sections Course withdrawal rates were identical at 15.7% for both groups.

13. Grades Earned

14. Passing Grades in These Courses

15. AY 2010 Results More A’s were given in online courses: 25.1% online 21.3% on-ground More F’s were given in on-ground courses: 17.5% on-ground 16.8% online GPA in these courses: 2.37 for online 2.31 for on-ground.

16. My Retort Completion rates (or success rates) in online developmental courses “are no more abysmal than and NOT way below the rates for on-ground courses. ” At least that is true for Lake Superior College

17. Discussion TimeOnline Courses and Developmental Education

18. #2 QualityMatters™ should be the focal point of our online quality efforts.

19. Through the use of rubrics and standards related to the quality of online courses (i.e. Quality Matters™), we are sufficiently addressing the questions about e-learning quality Reality Myth

21. Learning Level Is Low Learning Assessment Teaching Level Is High Course Design Meets Standards QualityMatters® Performance Eval

22. Learning Level Is High Learning Assessment Teaching Level Is High Course Design Below Standard QualityMatters® Performance Eval

23. Learning Level Is Low Learning Assessment Teaching Level Is Low Course Design Meets Standards QualityMatters® Performance Eval

24. Discussion TimeMoving Beyond QualityMatters™

25. #3 Digital Natives and Non-Traditional Students

26. Generations

27. Digital Natives

28. Net Generation

29. Next Generation

30. Nexters

31. Texters

32. Generation Y

33. Generation Why

34. Millennials

35. Generation Now

36. iGeneration

37. Echo Boomers

38. Google Generation

39. Nintendo Generation

40. Trophy Generation

41. Screenagers

42. That’s Crazy Talk. Let’s consolidate.

43. Digital Net-Gennials

44. More crazy talk. Let’s compare.

45. Conflicting Cottage Industries “Digital Net-Gennials” are loosely defined as being born from 1980 (or ‘82) to 2000. So, many of this “group” are between 25 and 30 years old. “Non-traditional” age students are usually defined as being 25 years and older.

46. So, which is it?

47. Treat them as Digital Natives? or as Non-Trads?

48. Discussion TimeDigital Natives and Non-Traditional Students

49. #4 Sense of Communityfor Online Learners

50. Online Community Are you trying to build an online community for your e-campus?

51. Why?

52. Importance Scale - PSOL PSOL – Importance Scores on 36 Items Importance of sense of community

53. Why don’t they care about community? Because they’re already up to their eyeballs in …. Already established communities

54. Discussion TimeSense of Communityfor Online Learners

55. #5 Online Student Satisfaction Surveys

56. Option 1 - PSOL

57. Why PSOL?

58. 59 PSOL Basics There are 72 questions that comprise the PSOL. Average completion time is 15 minutes. NOTE: questions are answered on a 7-point Likert scale, where 7 is high.

59. The Importance of Importance

60. That’s all good,but…….

63. 64 NOTE: SSI is the Noel-Levitz Survey for on-ground learners, PSOL is the Noel-Levitz survey for online learners.

64. 65 NOTE: SSI is the Noel-Levitz Survey for on-ground learners, PSOL is the Noel-Levitz survey for online learners.

66. Student uses of non-campus technology

67. Computer skills assessment

68. Student success rates

70. Great Expectations

71. 2009 PSOL – Summary Statement So far, how has your college experience met your expectations? Overall score 5.0

72. But seriously…

73. Discussion TimeOnline Student Satisfaction Surveys

74. Five Distance Learning Myths Explored and Exploded Barry Dahl Excellence in e-Education