Are you struggling, like many HBCUs, to develop effective and affordable online education programs? The Center for Excellence in Distance Learning at Wiley College offers a new forum for collaboration, sharing and innovation between HBCUs designed to build capacity in distance learning. This presentation features Dr. Kim Long of Wiley College sharing their progress building online programs and strengthening students’ success using open educational resources (OER). Dean Hyacinth Burton of Oakwood College and Dr. William Hopper of Florida Memorial University share their experiences working through the Center as a collaborative, affordable and productive path for achieving their institutions’ respective goals for online education. Kim Thanos discusses the innovative partnership between the Center for Excellence and Lumen Learning to provide faculty training, professional development, collaboration and ongoing support for the development of high quality courses using OER.

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When HBCUs Collaborate for Success in
Online Education:
The Center for Excellence in Distance Learning at Wiley College
Webinar
March 24, 2014

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Who are we?
Kim Thanos
CEO and co-founder
Lumen Learning
Kim Cliett Long, Ed.D.
Director
Center for Excellence in
Distance Learning at Wiley
College
Hyacinth Burton
Dean, Business and
Adult & Continuing
Education
Oakwood University
Dr. William Hopper
Associate VP Institutional
Effectiveness
Florida Memorial University

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How do we fit together?
The Center for Excellence in Distance Learning at
Wiley College
An HBCU collaborative for effective, open online education programs and practices
Lumen
Learning
Dr. Kim Long,
Director
Wiley College
Institutional
Partners
Respective Strengths and Contributions
• Administration and
management
• Strategic planning
• Accreditation
• Faculty recruiting
• Relationships
• Distance learning policy, politics
• OER training, expertise
• Collaborative process
• Open courses, resources
• Faculty support
• Enhancements
• Links to innovation hubs
• Students
• Faculty
• Priorities
• Resources
• Experience
• Expertise

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What is Lumen Learning?
We provide support services for
institutions using open
educational resources (OER)
effectively to:
• Eliminate textbook cost as a
barrier to learning
• Improve student success
• Broaden access to educational
opportunity
we are:
• A company, partially owned by
a charitable foundation
• Formed in 2012
• Based in Portland, OR
• Founded through a series of
grant-funded projects
• Educators
• Innovators in OER adoption
• Currently working with 35+
institutions
• Educators

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The Center’s Work to Date
• Educators
Training and
Support
• Faculty training in
personal online
learning
• Training in OER
• Guidance finding and
mapping high quality
content
• Licensing and
attribution
• Instructional design
• Enhancements to
improve student
success
Collaborative
Process
• Identify priorities
• Connect faculty
• Map learning
outcomes
• Evaluate open
content
• Design courses
• Peer review
• Publish courses and
resources
• Teach
• Refine and enhance
over time
Outcomes
• Shared repository of
courses, resources
• 15+ OER-based
courses in high-
demand subjects
• Textbook cost savings
over 90%
• Enthusiastic faculty
• Grateful students
• Quicker path to
degree completion

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Today’s Discussion
• HBCUs and Distance Learning
• Establishing the Center | Wiley College
• Partnering to Expand Capacity | Oakwood University
• Responding to Faculty and Student Demand for Online
Learning | Florida Memorial University
• Supporting the Center’s Success | Lumen Learning
• Q&A

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HBCUs and Distance Learning
• Critical to survive and thrive in the future
• Inherent challenges
 Cost to build and establish programs, course
 People: Staffing, training, support
 Specialized expertise
 Administrative, technical and instructional support
 Cultural shift for institutions historically focused on
highly personal, face-to-face education experience

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Wiley College’s Experience
• Goal: Build out distance learning programs
• Faculty initially started building courses using open
educational resources (OER) in 2012-2013
• Joined Kaleidoscope Project (grant project
directed by Lumen Learning) for faculty training,
professional development, collaboration
opportunities using OER

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Why create a Center for Excellence?
• We saw huge opportunities for collaboration
among HBCUs
 Institutions with similar goals, facing similar challenges
 Serve students with similar needs, profile
 Strong interest in common set of courses, resources,
online programs
 Ability to share faculty, expertise, investment, courses,
resources, experiences, work products

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Establishing the Center
Goals:
 Forum for dialogue on distance learning at HBCUs
 Network of leaders, practitioners, researchers
 Catalyst and clearinghouse for training, research, best
practices, resource sharing, dissemination, innovation
Vision:
 Develop a vast catalog of online courses, programs,
resources HBCUs can use to build distance education
programs more efficiently and effectively

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How the Center works
• Identify priorities and areas to collaborate and build on
prior work
• Train designated faculty members to design courses
and teach effectively using OER
• Multi-institution collaboration on course design,
including adapting course for HBCU students, context
• Peer review
• Faculty support for teaching and improving courses
• Collect and disseminate useful educational resources

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Why use Open Educational
Resources (OER)?
• Quality. Increasing volume of high quality OER available to
educators and students
• Cost Savings. Eliminate cost of expensive commercial
textbooks
• Access. Every student has free access to educational
materials from the first day of class
• Flexibility. Ability to add, modify, excerpt, remix and/or
rearrange materials to:
 Better align with learning outcomes
 Better address students’ learning needs
 Incorporate elements that encourage student success

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What have we achieved?
• Three institutions (in conversations with others)
• 40+ online courses offered in Spring 2014
• 30 more under development for Summer 2014
• Courses designed to teach information literacy within the
context of the course subject matter
• Students learning to use technology and information
effectively in a “need to know” world
• Positive feedback from faculty and students

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Oakwood University
• Goals and plans for distance learning
 Increase summer offerings
 Add winter break offerings
 Faculty development and training
 Grant writing
 Build and sustain capacity for online

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Becoming a Partner
• Decision to join the Center for Excellence
 Economies of scale
 Meets partnership goal for department
 Helps build and sustain capacity
 Mentorship

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Our Approach
• Initial steps we have taken and recommend
 Obtain President’s and upper management buy-in
 Form online committee with key university staff personnel
 Create budget for online development
 SACS or regional accrediting body approval
 Faculty buy-in
 Work with Center for Excellence for mentorship
 Work with Lumen Learning for course development (faculty)
 Ongoing training and development for faculty
 Continuous improvement

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Progress to Date
• Organizational Management SACS online approval
• Pilot four traditional courses – spring 2014
• Over twenty scheduled summer online courses
• Purchase SmartEval for course and instructor evaluations
• Purchase Respondus Monitoring for test taking

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What value are we seeing?
• The Center provides
 Collaboration
 Mentorship
 Grant-writing opportunities
 Economies of scale
 Great working relationship

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Florida Memorial University
• Goals and plans for distance learning
 Respond to demands from faculty and students
 Identify needed resources
 Comply with accreditation requirements

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Stepping Up to Meet Demand
• Respond to demands from faculty and students
 Hybrid, web-enhanced, and flipped classes are already in use and
are very popular
 Several faculty are already teaching on-line at other institutions as
adjuncts
 Increasing number of students asking about on-line courses and
programs

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Addressing Resource Needs
• Identify needed resources
 Course design is very expensive
 Improvements to existing infrastructure were not a high
priority
 Center provides both incentive and opportunity

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Accreditation Compliance
• Comply with accreditation requirements
 Changes in mode of course delivery require approval
 Additional means of student support services are needed
 Avoid triggering a substantive change before the institution is fully
ready

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Progress and Plans
• Trial period – Summer B 2014
 Offer 10-12 courses on-line, primarily from the Liberal
Arts Core Curriculum
 Target specific groups of students, especially first-time
freshmen
 Assess and review at the end to recommend for the next
academic year
 Include expansion of courses and programs in Strategic
Plan under development, including substantive change

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Supporting the Center’s Success
Lumen Learning Role:
• Training
• Faculty professional
development
• Assistance finding and
curating open content
• Facilitate aligning course content with learning outcomes
• Design, review, improvement of OER-based courses
• Maintain current licensing and attribution

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New Online Courses: Spring 2014
Oakwood University Wiley College
Microcomputer Apps
Principles of Psychology
Freshman Comp II
Macroeconomics
Intro to Computing
Principles of Psychology
Intro to Sociology
Survey of Math
College Algebra
US History I
US History II
Speech Communication

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New Online Courses: Summer 2014
Oakwood U. Wiley College Florida Memorial
U.
Freshman Comp II
Microcomputer Apps
US History I
Music Appreciation
Fund Concepts Math
Life Science
Principles of Marketing
Principles of Psychology
Microeconomics
Macroeconomics
Chemistry in Society
Begin Spanish I
Begin Spanish II
Calculus
Applied Calculus
World Civilization I
Health Principles
Principles of Management
Principles of Accounting I
Principles of Accounting II
Principles of Finance
Physical Science
Human Resource
Management
Freshman Comp I
Freshman Comp II
Intro to Computing
Speech Communication
US History I
US History II
Principles of Marketing
Principles of Economics I
Principles of Economics II
General Psychology
Survey of Math
College Algebra
Intro to Sociology
Pre-Calculus I
Pre-Calculus II
Business Ethics
Computer App Business
Management Info Systems
Criminal Investigation & Evid
Criminal Law
Criminal Justice Ethics & Prof
Educational Psychology
Human Growth & Development
Children’s Literature
Technology in Education
The Exceptional Learner
World Literature I
World Literature II
African-American Literature
Elementary French I
Elementary French II
Humanities
History of Western Philosophy
Ethics & Politics Afr-Amer Cmty
Personality Theory & Adjustmt
Survey of Religion & Philosophy
World Religions
Christian Leadership
Database System Management
Introduction to Criminal Justice
Introduction to Corrections
Juvenile Justice System
Organizational Behavior
Organizational Leadership
History & Principles of Phys Ed
Health Education
Recreation Leadership
College Writing I
College Writing II
Intro to Public Speaking
Music Appreciation
Essentials of College Math
Intermediate Algebra
College Algebra
Biological Science
Earth Science
Introduction to Statistics
Essentials of College Writing
Art Appreciation
Red: Offered across all
partners
Blue: Offered by multiple
partners

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We Invite You to Learn More
To learn more about the Center for Excellence in Distance
Learning at Wiley College and how it might help you
achieve your online education goals, contact:
• Kim Long (klong@wileyc.edu or office: 903-923-1622 /
mobile: 903-578-0199)
• Kim Thanos (kim@lumenlearning.com or 503-816-4721)
Website: http://cexdl.org/

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Q&A
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