Presentation for the 2017 AACC conference featuring three ATD initiatives: Adjunct Faculty, Teaching & Learning National Institute, and the OER Degree Initiative
Raise Your Hand Texas funds the tuition expenses for a selective group of campus leaders from Houston-area school districts to participate in REEP at Rice University.
The Rice University Education Entrepreneurship Program is for current and aspiring school leaders in the Houston area who want to dramatically impact public education at a deeper, more systemic level.
This unique program combines a world-class business school education with an innovative educational leadership curriculum that results in transformative experiences for local K-12 leaders.
Raise Your Hand Texas funds the tuition expenses for a selective group of campus leaders from Houston-area school districts to participate in REEP at Rice University.
The Rice University Education Entrepreneurship Program is for current and aspiring school leaders in the Houston area who want to dramatically impact public education at a deeper, more systemic level.
This unique program combines a world-class business school education with an innovative educational leadership curriculum that results in transformative experiences for local K-12 leaders.
Presented to the Board of Higher Education and Board of Elementary and Secondary Education at the joint meeting on January 26, 2016 at Roxbury Community College.
CCCOER Presents: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in OERUna Daly
The OER movement is deeply rooted in ensuring equitable access to information; but there is more we can do to help increase equity, diversity, and inclusion in our resources and practices. Join us for this webinar to learn about the ways in which colleges can consider issues of equity when designing and delivering OER courses and degree programs.
When: Wednesday, Oct 16, 12pm PT/ 3pm ET
Featured Speakers:
Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education, BCcampus
Niki Whiteside, Assistant Vice Chancellor – Instructional Innovation & Support, San Jacinto College
Esperanza Zenon, Physical Science Instructor, River Parishes Community College
Moderator:
Suzanne Wakim, ASCCC OERI Regional Lead; OER Coordinator for Butte College
How do you think naac is ensuring external and internal quality at higher edu...Abhishek Nayan
National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) was established by the UGC in September 1994 at Bangalore for evaluating the performance of the Universities and Colleges in the Country. NAAC's mandate includes the task of performance evaluation, assessment and accreditation of universities and colleges in the country. Since its eastablishment, NAAC is working towards quality enhancement in Higher education. Check the slides to know more.
Presented to the Board of Higher Education and Board of Elementary and Secondary Education at the joint meeting on January 26, 2016 at Roxbury Community College.
CCCOER Presents: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in OERUna Daly
The OER movement is deeply rooted in ensuring equitable access to information; but there is more we can do to help increase equity, diversity, and inclusion in our resources and practices. Join us for this webinar to learn about the ways in which colleges can consider issues of equity when designing and delivering OER courses and degree programs.
When: Wednesday, Oct 16, 12pm PT/ 3pm ET
Featured Speakers:
Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education, BCcampus
Niki Whiteside, Assistant Vice Chancellor – Instructional Innovation & Support, San Jacinto College
Esperanza Zenon, Physical Science Instructor, River Parishes Community College
Moderator:
Suzanne Wakim, ASCCC OERI Regional Lead; OER Coordinator for Butte College
How do you think naac is ensuring external and internal quality at higher edu...Abhishek Nayan
National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) was established by the UGC in September 1994 at Bangalore for evaluating the performance of the Universities and Colleges in the Country. NAAC's mandate includes the task of performance evaluation, assessment and accreditation of universities and colleges in the country. Since its eastablishment, NAAC is working towards quality enhancement in Higher education. Check the slides to know more.
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
In this session, we’ll delve into the ways that institutions have been engaging faculty, creating courses and pathways, and working to build sustained infrastructure for civic learning and community engagement.
Day 1 Presentation
Kim Scalzo & Larry Dugan
Presentation: Envisioning the Future of Open SUNY
http://opensunysummit2018.edublogs.org/2018/01/31/opensuny/
Open SUNY Summit 2018 -
Annual conference for the SUNY online teaching and learning community of practice. https://commons.suny.edu/cotehub/
February 28 - March 2, 2018, SUNY Global Center, NY, NY.
Conference website: http://opensunysummit2018.edublogs.org/
Program: http://opensunysummit2018.edublogs.org/about/program/
Recordings: http://opensunysummit2018.edublogs.org/mediasite/
Materials: http://opensunysummit2018.edublogs.org/registration/materials/
Open SUNY Online Teaching: http://commons.suny.edu/cote/
Academic Plan Executive Summary 091709Jenny Darrow
Executive Summary - This academic plan outlines the multi-dimensional efforts of Keene State College and the Division of Academic Affairs to achieve academic excellence. It comes at a time in history when it will not be enough for educational institutions to be known for the physical attributes of their campus or community, or the measures of the many inputs that historically have equated with status in the educational pecking order. Our stakeholders—students, parent, community, system and legislators—are demanding evidence of real educational outcomes, which are captured best in one overarching College strategic goal—achieving academic excellence. The institutions that rise to this new challenge will succeed and prosper, while those that do not will languish. While the Division of Academic Affairs at Keene State College has primary responsibility for meeting this challenge, our success will depend on the creative energies and hard work of the entire College community.
Launched in 2005, Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) is a national initiative that champions the importance of a twenty-first-century liberal education—for individual students and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality.
For the past two years National Louis University has partnered with community agencies and schools in identifying emerging leaders from underserved populations and awarding them substantial scholarships, entitled Harrison Fellowships.This session will describe these ongoing efforts into best practices of identifying, transitioning and retaining these future leaders (http://www.nl.edu/harrisonfellows/).
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.
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.
How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
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Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
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Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
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The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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Re-envisioning Teaching & Learning | AACC 2017
1. RE-ENVISIONING TEACHING & LEARNING
FOR THE 21ST CENTURY COMMUNITY
COLLEGE
Jonathan Iuzzini, Rachel Singer, Richard Sebastian
2. HISTORY
Achieving the Dream began as a national initiative in 2004
The Lumina Foundation (founding investor) plus 7 founding
organizations in the field of Higher education.
3. OUR NETWORK
The Achieving the Dream National Reform Network includes over
200 colleges, 15 state policy teams, more than 20 investors, and
more than 100 coaches and advisors - working throughout 35 states
and the District of Columbia - to help more than 4 million
community college students have a better chance of realizing
greater economic opportunity and achieving their dreams.
4. MISSION
To lead and support a national network of
community colleges to achieve sustainable
institutional transformation through sharing
knowledge, innovative solutions and effective
practices and policies leading to improved
outcomes for all students.
5. VISION
A nation in which community
colleges are highly valued for
preserving access and assuring that
their students, especially low
income students and students of
color, achieve their goals for
academic success, personal growth,
and economic opportunity.
6. INCUBATION of new ideas that will support the
continued development of our theory of change
and/or add new learning to the field
DISSEMINATION of knowledge back to the field and
the community of practice to accelerate
improvement of network and non-network colleges
DESIGNED SUPPORTS for scaled solutions for colleges
offered around the organizational change model.
ATD’S WORK
7. INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY FRAMEWORK
To build a student-
focused culture
leading to positive
educational and
employment
outcomes, colleges
must have capacity in
these 7 areas
8. THE NATIONAL LANDSCAPE
We have a need nationally for thought
leadership in addressing the experiences of
adjunct faculty
• 67% of community college faculty nationwide
are adjunct faculty
• 58% of community college classes are taught
by adjunct faculty
9. WHAT OUR STUDENTS NEED
Strong correlation between quality of faculty-
student interactions and student persistence
toward completion
• Effects are especially strong for first-
generation students, students of color,
students from low-income backgrounds
10. ENGAGING ADJUNCT FACULTY
IN THE STUDENT SUCCESS MOVEMENT
2-year planning and implementation grant, funded by
The Helmsley Trust
Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation
Goal is to develop practices and policies to support adjunct
faculty to improve instruction and become engaged in student
success initiatives
Community College Research Center (CCRC) serves as a third-
party evaluator, documenting strategies employed, stakeholder
experiences with implementation, and project outcomes
Practitioner’s Guide: coming in fall 2018
11. 6 PARTICIPATING LEADER COLLEGES
• Community College of Philadelphia
• Delta College
• Harper College
• Patrick Henry Community College
• Renton Technical College
• Community College of Baltimore County
12. BY A SHOW OF HANDS …
How many of you have deliberate conversations
on your campus about adjunct faculty?
How many of you have an initiative or program
on your campus designed to engage adjunct
faculty?
13. PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
• Faculty development activities
• Recognition and representation of
adjunct faculty in shared governance
15. TEACHING & LEARNING NATIONAL INSTITUTE
TLNI is sponsored by:
• Achieving the Dream, Inc. (ATD),
• National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA),
• National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE),
• Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education Washington
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (WSBCTC).
This is a 4 day residential institute at Evergreen State College:
Which hosts 20-25 institutions with 5-8 members – at least three of whom
are faculty but also including and academic administrator, an assessment
expert, student affairs professional or other stakeholders who can contribute
to an effective and sustainable action plan
16. TEACHING & LEARING NATIONAL
INSITIUTE
THIS RESIDENTIAL INSTITUTE IS DESIGNED TO:
• strengthen campus engagement in evidence-based change initiatives aimed at
promoting student learning and success;
• more clearly define student learning outcomes for participating institutions and
their programs, and courses;
• actively promote faculty leadership in initiatives aimed at improving student
learning and student success;
• use data to design change initiatives, assess them, and plan subsequent steps;
• create a sustainable model for learning-centered professional development for
all campus educators, including contingent faculty
17. ATD SUPPORTING MATH PATHWAYS:
CARNEGIE AND DANA CENTER
Fosters systemic institutional transformation and scaling
Helps identify and target persistent gaps in student
performance
Addresses teaching and learning in meaningful ways
Positions faculty as change agents
Emphasizes the importance of professional development
Primes institutions to begin or strengthen guided pathways
Encourages developmental education transformation in
conjunction with the Core Principles
18. MATH PATHWAYS
• Quantway is focused on quantitative reasoning that fulfills
developmental requirements with the aim of preparing students
for success in college-level mathematics. The goal of Quantway
is to promote success in community college mathematics and
to develop quantitatively literate students
• Statway is focused on statistics, data analysis, and causal
reasoning, combining college-level statistics with
developmental math. It is designed to teach mathematic skills
that are essential for a growing number of occupations and are
needed for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty
19. MATH PATHWAYS
Are structured so that:
• all students, regardless of college readiness, enter directly
into mathematics pathway that is aligned to their program of
study.
• students complete their first college-level math requirement
in their first year of college.
• advance quality and innovative teaching
• strategies to support students as learners are integrated into
courses and are aligned across the institution.
• incorporate productive persistence
• instruction incorporates evidence-based curriculum and
pedagogy.
-- We have several Funded Learning Initiatives, aligned with a number of capacity areas, which Jon will talk about.
This project is just one of our several Funded Learning Initiatives.
Grounded in field experience and research
Colleges, ATD Coaches, partner organizations have all contributed to the development of the framework
In our work with our network colleges, ATD uses this framework to help colleges assess their areas of strength as well as areas where there is room for growth and development.
We developed this framework in collaboration with our network colleges, coaches, and partner organizations; grounded in field experience and research.
As colleges develop capacity in each of these 7 areas, they move towards an increasingly student-focused culture leading to positive educational and employment outcomes.
The project we are discussing today focuses on the Teaching & Learning capacity.
These two statistics point to how deeply community colleges now rely on the work of adjunct faculty. From our students’ point of view, we want their learning experience to be of the same high quality whether their course is taught by a full-time or adjunct faculty member. So these statistics demonstrate a real need for this work.
Building on what we saw on the previous slide, we know there are good reasons why adjunct faculty may be less engaged in their institutions, relative to their full-time counterparts. But findings like this one remind us that we must find ways to engage adjunct faculty more deeply; our students’ success depends on it.
This slide and the next slide provide basic background on the project.
This is a 2-year project, announced at DREAM last year. We had our selection process last spring, and the 6 selected colleges began their work together at our project kickoff, at the TLNI last summer. Talk briefly here about the great opportunity they had to begin their work together at TLNI.
The colleges began their work in September and we will conclude the project in summer 2018. At that time we will publish a Practitioner’s Guide that will disseminate our lessons learned and best practices from this project.
We want to acknowledge the support of our funders.
And the goal of the project. Emphasize that this project helps these colleges to strengthen adjunct faculty professional development in terms of classroom practice, but this is also very much about finding new ways to engage them in their institution’s broader student success work. For example, your college can be doing really amazing work with guided pathways, but that work will be limited in the impact it can have if only your full-time faculty are engaged in it, understand it, and so on.
These are the 6 selected colleges (the two highlighted in green are here presenting on their work today).
These schools are diverse in terms of:
size (small, medium, and large institutions, in terms of their numbers of students and faculty)
location (urban, suburban, rural)
some are unionized, some are not
This diversity will help us to provide a broad set of strategies to the field when this project concludes, and we will have examples of very different kinds of institutions where these strategies are working.
The colleges’ work falls into two broad categories. The first is “faculty development activities” – here are some examples of what that looks like on the ground.
One college has been working for some time to infuse high impact practices across their curriculum, with a focus on full-time faculty taking up this work. Now, in this project, they are bringing adjunct faculty into this work so that they can implement these practices into their courses, too.
Another college is developing online seminars to engage their adjunct faculty more deeply in the college’s ongoing guided pathways work.
This is the second broad category of work the colleges are undertaking: recognition and representation of adjunct faculty in shared governance. Here are a few examples:
One college is working to standardize how they evaluate adjunct faculty across departments and disciplines
Other colleges are rethinking how adjunct faculty are represented in their shared governance structures and looking at new roles for adjunct faculty in those structures.
Finally, one college is expanding the physical spaces they have for adjunct faculty to work and meet with their students; they are calling these Centers for Adjunct Excellence.
The institute is a carefully and strategically coordinated mix of plenaries, concurrent sessions, and team time that provides a learning space for campus teams to develop plans to guide the work of examining, improving, and supporting what happens in the classrooms, how that translates across the campus and how to help the institution focus on the importance of student learning and outcomes.
Experienced educators from across the country will facilitate small and large group sessions, and work directly with teams as resources for the entire institute
Team action plans will focus generally on improving effective instructional practices, student engagement, and student learning and success. The specifics will vary, depending on campus context.
.
Summer 2016 - 29 institutions—16 two-year and 13 four-year.
Participants represented 12 states, and included an 8-person team from Puerto Rico,
two teams from Canada, and one from the Universidad del Norte in Columbia.
Each campus team worked to develop a two-year action plan aimed at improving some aspect of the student learning experience.
Plans developed in 2016 tackled, among other things, campus concerns about achievement and opportunity gaps and student success outcomes, gaps in students’ literacy and developmental skills, the need for focused and sustained professional development with special attention to engaging adjunct faculty, and the desire to create a more supportive campus environment
We’ve worked with Carnegie to disseminate their work through a TAACCT grant Northeast Resiliency Consortium
Dana Center with their Texas colleges and now a convening in May in Minneapolis ( Carnegie will hopefully collaborate as well)