Workforce Conference 10-09

eLearning: Expanding Access:How Digital, Networked Technologies and SharingChanges Education
Cable Green
eLearning 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 make
all of our
“digital stuff”
available to
all people…
and most of it
will get used...
by someone.

“Long Tail” of Publishing
$
long tail
HarryPotter
Hyper-geometricpartial differentialequations

We All Get to Participate
http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart

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

Social Networking

Social Bookmarking
http://delicious.com/geoffcain/oer

Share Photos
http://www.flickr.com

Share Slides (and use others’)
http://www.slideshare.net

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

Blog
http://www.blogger.com

Tweet
http://twitter.com

Useful or Stupid?
http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2009/08/14/findoerafrica/

(2) eLearning
Why 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

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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http://www.fhcrc.org/about/pubs/center_news/weekly/img/2007_0806_i5_traffic.jpg

(3) Open Educational Resources

Why is “Open” Important?
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.

Definition of OER
Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.

(a few) Open Content Repositories
OpenLearn (UK) - DEMO
OCW – MIT (MIT HS)
China Open Resources for Education has translated 109 MIT OCW courses into Simplified Chinese.
Rice Connexions

Lenses @ Rice Connexions
social software for peer review & quality control
California
Community
Colleges
Ohio
Community
Colleges
Washington
Community
Colleges

and there is this small
collection 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
Making copies, storage, distribution of digital stuff = “Free”
http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/

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

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

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

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

Impact on Students?
Work longer hours
Additional debt
Credit card debt
Not purchase textbooks

Math in Society (Open Textbook)
David Lipmann, Professor @ Pierce College
3,972 annual enrollments
Textbooks savings to RTC students?
List of open and free textbooksthat may be suitable for use in community college courses

Hey Higher Ed!
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

“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?
Harder to catch-up …
Or even understand.
Google, Amazon, Apple, Open Source,
Open Content, Open Textbooks…
Functional Possibilities
Higher Education
Time

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How is the fiscal health
of 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.
(p.11)
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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 and
leverage 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.

Blogs: http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu Twitter: cgreenSlides @ http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen
Dr. Cable Green
eLearning Director
cgreen@sbctc.edu
(360) 704-4334

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