Presenting the MDE-UMUC/HBMeU cooperative programsStella Porto
Presentation of the recent dual award degrees result from the cooperation between the Master of Distance Education & E-Learning from UMUC, with the Distance Learning masters programs at HBMeU, Dubai, UAE.
Presenting the MDE-UMUC/HBMeU cooperative programsStella Porto
Presentation of the recent dual award degrees result from the cooperation between the Master of Distance Education & E-Learning from UMUC, with the Distance Learning masters programs at HBMeU, Dubai, UAE.
Presentation of Diana Andone, for EDEN's Open Education Week on 'Digital experiences in technical higher education' - Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 13:00-14:00
More info:
https://eden-europe.eu/eden_conference/digital-experiences-in-technical-higher-education/
A presentation to the staff of the University of South Africa as part of a Benchmarking Activity around Technology Enhanced Learning, using the ACODE Benchmarks. Conducted for the Institute for Open and Distance Learning (IODL)
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled Biz Models for Hi-Tech Products to analyze the business model for Coursera. Coursera offers massive open online courses and thus challenges the current business models of most universities. It offers these online courses to its students and to the students of other universities. By using courses that have been developed by universities and other organizations and by offering these courses to thousands if not millions of potential customers, Coursera has much lower costs per course and per student than do conventional universities. These slides analyze the challenges for Coursera and the potential solutions in the form of customer selection, value proposition, and method of value capture.
This presentation highlights the outputs of the Jisc technology for employability project. The presentation was delivered at the Scottish Assessment Conference in January 2016 which focussed on the Scottish government strategy of Developing the Young Workforce.
Presentation of Diana Andone, for EDEN's Open Education Week on 'Digital experiences in technical higher education' - Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 13:00-14:00
More info:
https://eden-europe.eu/eden_conference/digital-experiences-in-technical-higher-education/
A presentation to the staff of the University of South Africa as part of a Benchmarking Activity around Technology Enhanced Learning, using the ACODE Benchmarks. Conducted for the Institute for Open and Distance Learning (IODL)
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled Biz Models for Hi-Tech Products to analyze the business model for Coursera. Coursera offers massive open online courses and thus challenges the current business models of most universities. It offers these online courses to its students and to the students of other universities. By using courses that have been developed by universities and other organizations and by offering these courses to thousands if not millions of potential customers, Coursera has much lower costs per course and per student than do conventional universities. These slides analyze the challenges for Coursera and the potential solutions in the form of customer selection, value proposition, and method of value capture.
This presentation highlights the outputs of the Jisc technology for employability project. The presentation was delivered at the Scottish Assessment Conference in January 2016 which focussed on the Scottish government strategy of Developing the Young Workforce.
Capitol Technology University, the only independent university in Maryland dedicated to engineering, computer science, information technology and management of technology, invites applications, expressions of interest and nominations of candidates in its search for the next Vice President, Finance.
Seminar given at EduCause 2008 on how OpenCourseWare can help institutions meet their goals. Presentation given by Terri Bays, Dan Carchidi, and Sunnie Kim.
"Discover the best BCA colleges in Jaipur through our comprehensive presentation, showcasing detailed insights, curriculum highlights, faculty expertise, and student experiences. Unveil your path to excellence in computer applications with the finest institutions in Jaipur."
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) on Tuesday, June 11, 10:00 am (PDT) for a webinar on Competency-based learning and OER. Competency-based learning is gaining traction as institutions strive to personalize learning experiences and decrease time to graduation. Students demonstrate mastery at their own pace through e-Portfolio assessments or on-demand tests and institutions often recommend free or open educational resources (OER) along with prior learning as a source for learning materials.
Hear from several higher education experts on how OER and open courses complement competency-based learning to improve student outcomes:
Dr. Ellen Marie Murphy, Executive Director of Curriculum and Learning Systems, Ivy Bridge College. Ivy Bridge College is a two-year online institution that streamlines the transfer process to four-year degrees through personalized learning programs.
Dr. Chari Leader-Kelley, Vice-President of Learning Counts at the Council for Adult & Experiential Learning (CAEL). Learning Counts specializes in the assessment of prior learning for college credit. Currently working with the Saylor foundation to embed portfolio templates into open courses to allow students to demonstrate and reflect upon their learning.
Dr. David Shulman, Vice-President of the Virtual Campus and Instructional Technology at Broward College, Florida. Broward College is offering a competency-based MOOC this summer entitled “College Foundations: Reading, Writing, and Math” to provide students with skills to begin college or to prepare for college placement exams.
Participant Login Information:
There is no need to register in advance but please use the link below on the day of the webinar. You may use a headset or dial-in over the phone if you would like to speak otherwise you can listen directly from your computer speakers and use the chat window.
Learn how a Z Cred (Z-Degree, OER Degree) can help to boost college access and completion, particularly for underserved students, by engaging faculty in the redesign of courses and degree programs through the replacement of proprietary textbooks with open educational resources.
Achieving the Dream: Promoting Your OER Degree Program to Students, Faculty,...Achieving the Dream
Communication is a crucial component of launching an OER degree program, especially effectively communicating with your institution’s primary stakeholders: faculty, staff, and students. Join Achieving the Dream this Thursday (Nov. 9th) at 1pm EST for “What’s an OER?” Promoting Your OER Degree Program to Students, Faculty, and Staff", the first in a series of webinars for community colleges that focus on successful approaches to implementing OER degree courses and programs.
During the first webinar, Joseph Mold, Director of Online Learning at Bay College, an ATD OER Degree Initiative college, and Allie McKay with communications firm +gmmb, will share successful strategies for promoting OER degree programs and courses to key campus stakeholders. Richard Sebastian, Director of Achieving the Dream's OER Degree Initiative, will moderate as well as highlight the communication strategies currently being used by several other OER Degree Initiative grantees. We hope this webinar will provide you with successful techniques and strategies to help you spread the word about your OER project and gain buy-in and support on your campus.
Presentation for the 2017 AACC conference featuring three ATD initiatives: Adjunct Faculty, Teaching & Learning National Institute, and the OER Degree Initiative
OER-based Degree Pathways: Emerging Trends and Lessons Learned at U.S. Commun...Achieving the Dream
The rising cost of textbooks has been cited by students as a major barrier to achieving their educational goals. A study by the U.S. based Student Public Interest Research Group (StudentPIRGs.org) found that almost half of students surveyed take fewer or different classes based on the prices of textbooks. Two-thirds of students skipped buying a textbook because of cost. U.S. community colleges have been promoting the adoption of high quality open educational resources (OER) to alleviate costs but the impact on students has been dependent on the availability of OER in varied subjects area. The emergence of OER-based pathways however has the potential to maximize impact for students who want to complete an associate degree or a career technical education (CTE) certificate.
OER-based degrees, also called “Zero-Textbook-Cost degrees”, are pathways to a degree or credential with no textbook costs. Faculty have redesigned all courses in the pathway to use open educational resources (OER) for instructional materials. These degrees are gaining in popularity particularly at community colleges where registering for these courses can save students up to 25% on the cost of attendance for a 2-year degree. Faculty also enjoy greater academic freedom when they can select and customize open materials to enhance student engagement and support learning outcomes. In practice, it has been shown that students following a guided pathway complete their educational degrees more quickly resulting in less costs and more career opportunities.
Hear from a panel of pioneering OER degree college leaders from Virginia, Washington, and California on how these degrees benefit their students and support their institutional mission and goals for open access and degree completion. In addition, panelists will share lessons learned for OER degree development and the challenges of sustaining and expanding the degrees across the institution.
Dream 2017 | Introduction to Open Educational Resources: Implementation and I...Achieving the Dream
Lumen Learning CAO and Open Education Fellow Dr. David Wiley provided an overview of open educational resources (OER), described how they replace traditional textbooks and online homework systems, and summarized the research on their impacts on a range of student outcomes. Dr. Richard Sebastian, Director of the Open Educational Resources Degree Initiative at Achieving the Dream, described how ATD is building on current OER research through the OER Degree Initiative.
DREAM 2017 | Faculty as Drivers of College Reform EffortsAchieving the Dream
Three of Achieving the Dream’s funded learning initiatives – the Open Education Resources Degree Initiative, Engaging Adjunct Faculty Initiative, and InSpark Network-- are creating faculty led teams to drive curriculum and pedagogy reform and to engage a wider swath of faculty – both full and part time, in institution wide reform efforts.
During this workshop, participants:
* Learned about strategies these colleges are using to give faculty greater ownership of the completion agenda.
* Completed a readiness survey to assess their college’s current policies and practices for engaging faculty in institution-wide reform work
* Developed a draft plan for engaging more faculty in reform efforts at their campuses
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
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The mission of Achieving the Dream is to lead andThe mission of Achieving the Dream is to lead and
support a national network of community collegessupport a national network of community colleges
to achieve sustainable institutional transformationto achieve sustainable institutional transformation
through sharing knowledge, innovative solutions,through sharing knowledge, innovative solutions,
and effective practices and policies leading toand effective practices and policies leading to
improved outcomes for all students.improved outcomes for all students.
5. 5
Achieving the Dream'sAchieving the Dream's
Institutional Capacity FrameworkInstitutional Capacity Framework
OER OER
OER
OER
OEROER
OER
7. 7
The redesign of a pathway ofThe redesign of a pathway of
existing courses that lead to aexisting courses that lead to a
degree or certificate using OERdegree or certificate using OER
instead of proprietary courseinstead of proprietary course
materials.materials.
What is an OER (Z)
Degree?
8. 8
Offer at least one OER degree with at least
one (1) section of every required course and at
least one (1) section of a sufficient number of
general education and other elective courses
Collect and share student data to support
the initiative’s research and evaluation program
Grantee Goals
Goals
9. 9
Share all educational materials developed
through this project with the public
Ensure access by and support for low
income students and students of color
in their OER degree programs
Grantee Goals
Goals
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Engagement & CommunicationEngagement & Communication
““How will students/staff/faculty know about yourHow will students/staff/faculty know about your
college’s OER courses?”college’s OER courses?”
18. 18
Strategy & PlanningStrategy & Planning
““Open education is a part of the Pierce CollegeOpen education is a part of the Pierce College
Strategic Plan. By defining open education as aStrategic Plan. By defining open education as a
shift in course materials as well as a shift inshift in course materials as well as a shift in
pedagogy, this strategic plan seeks to createpedagogy, this strategic plan seeks to create
access to education through lower costs whileaccess to education through lower costs while
adding both rigor and engagement to our teaching.”adding both rigor and engagement to our teaching.”
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Policies & PracticePolicies & Practice
““How can your college’s governanceHow can your college’s governance
structure and policies support thestructure and policies support the
development and use of OER?”development and use of OER?”
23. 23
Leadership & VisionLeadership & Vision
““Who are the high level executive leaders atWho are the high level executive leaders at
your institution committed to the success ofyour institution committed to the success of
this project?”this project?”
24. 24
Leadership & VisionLeadership & Vision
Chancellor Glenn DuboisChancellor Glenn Dubois
Virginia Community College SystemVirginia Community College System
25. 25
Leadership & VisionLeadership & Vision
Chancellor Brenda HellyerChancellor Brenda Hellyer
San Jacinto CommunitySan Jacinto Community
CollegeCollege
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EquityEquity
““How can your college ensure that OERHow can your college ensure that OER
course sections are available to the studentscourse sections are available to the students
that would benefit from them the most?”that would benefit from them the most?”
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EquityEquity
All students who earn an associate’s degreeAll students who earn an associate’s degree
at Odessa College will be able to completeat Odessa College will be able to complete
the 42 hour degree core without paying anythe 42 hour degree core without paying any
textbook costs.*textbook costs.*
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Teaching & LearningTeaching & Learning
““How will faculty at your college be shownHow will faculty at your college be shown
the pedagogical advantages of the ‘5Rs’ ofthe pedagogical advantages of the ‘5Rs’ of
open courses?”open courses?”
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Teaching & LearningTeaching & Learning
Use of OER “aligns with our institutional focus onUse of OER “aligns with our institutional focus on
culturally relevant pedagogy and community-basedculturally relevant pedagogy and community-based
learning, which furthers BHCC’s commitment tolearning, which furthers BHCC’s commitment to
fostering the success of diverse student populations.”fostering the success of diverse student populations.”
OER and Intentionality
How can I use the resources I have to feed the most people
Putting down stakes, take advantage of fertile soil, hearty seeds
VCCS: Exemplar and Cautionary Tale
OER grants > TCC’s Z-Degree > Zx23 Project > ?
Why hasn’t OER/OER degrees scaled across the system in VA?
Est. in 2004
Achieving the Dream believes that access to a high quality education in an inclusive environment is the right of all individuals and imperative for the continued advancement of a strong democracy and workforce. Achieving the Dream also believes higher education institutions have an obligation to work toward equity for their students. Equity is grounded in the principle of fairness. In higher education, equity refers to ensuring that each student receives what they need to be successful through the intentional design of the college experience.
Est. in 2004
Achieving the Dream believes that access to a high quality education in an inclusive environment is the right of all individuals and imperative for the continued advancement of a strong democracy and workforce. Achieving the Dream also believes higher education institutions have an obligation to work toward equity for their students. Equity is grounded in the principle of fairness. In higher education, equity refers to ensuring that each student receives what they need to be successful through the intentional design of the college experience.
Technical aspect: SIS
PR and communications
Cross-departmental communications
Faculty collaboration
Also:
Will you institute a course fee to sustain program?
Tenure and promotion
Chancellor Glen Dubois drove VA’s leading OER work
Chancellor Brenda Hellyer, San Jacinto
AACC Committee
Drove accelerated OER degree development for TX
Also:
How will you tag OER courses in your college’s SIS?
What data do you need to collect to measure impact?