This document discusses open and online learning at Empire State College. It provides an overview of the college's foundation of openness since 1971, allowing flexible, self-paced study. It then summarizes Empire State College's current efforts in several open and online initiatives through its Center for Distance Learning, including open educational resources, MOOCs, blended learning, and collaborations within the SUNY system through Open SUNY. The document outlines goals to expand access to online programs and increase the number of online learners across SUNY through open approaches.

1. Promoting Collaboration in Open
Online Programs
Center for Distance Learning, Empire State College
Tom Mackey, Dean

2. Foundation of Openness
at Empire State College

3. NEW UNIVERSITY COLLEGENEW UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
19711971

4. An Open Community of Learning.An Open Community of Learning.
experimental skillsexperimental skills
structure if necessarystructure if necessary

5. transcends constraints of
space, place and time.
transcends constraints of
space, place and time.
transcend conventional
academic structure.
transcend conventional
academic structure.

6. Former President and Chief Executive Officer
Commonwealth of Learning
Sir John Daniel
“These dimensions of openness that were
introduced by the UK Open University and
Empire State College remained the principal
expressions of openness in higher
education for the next thirty years. Two
dimensions – open admissions and
distance learning – were widely copied and
there are now millions of students in open
universities around the world.”

7. 7
2012 Paris OER Declaration
“Bridge the digital divide by developing
adequate infrastructure, in particular,
affordable broadband connectivity,
widespread mobile technology and
reliable electrical power supply.”
“Improve media and information literacy
and encourage the development and use
of OER in open standard digital
formats.”
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/
Events/Paris%20OER%20Declaration_01.pdf

8. 8
Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Create. Share. Reuse.

9. Open Curriculum
• Mentor-Learner
• Individualized Degree Planning
• Prior Learning Assessment
(PLA)
• Guided Independent Study
• Group Study
• Online Study
• Blended study
• Residencies
• Emerging open formats:
MOOCs, Open Courses, OERs

10. Business, Management
and Economics
Community and Human
Services
Science, Math and
Technology
Humanities
CDL Faculty Teams
by Areas of Study

11. Award winning Academic Support
CDL Peer Tutor Program
2010-11 Innovation
Award in Online Student
Services
Sponsored by the
Center for Transforming
Student Services
(CENTSS).
Peer Tutor Program and Course Assistant Program

12. 2011 Sloan-C Award
Excellence in Faculty Development for Online
Teaching
Online Orientation
Faculty Development and Training
Student Advisory Group
Data Analysis
Graduation
SUNY Empire State College

13. Mobile Learning Studies
Mobile Projects:
• Using iPad to Teach Math
• Exploring Content Delivery,
Communication and
Convenience with Mobile
Technologies
• Studies in Mobile Media
• Kindling a Passion for Reading
• American Popular Music

14. Pre-Enrollment Advising Chat

15. Blended Studies CDL/Metro
• Community & Human Services
o Intro to Human Services
o Disabled in America
o Survey of Social Science Research
Methods
• Business, Management, &
Economics
o Corporate Finance
o International Management
• Cultural Anthropology
Metro Center, NYC

16. Slideshows with text,
image, video, and
music
Collaborative
wikis
Collaborative word clouds
Collaborative
story and
research

17. 17
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu
Sample Rubric: http://sites.fcps.org/trt/sites/default/files/SampleRubric.pdf

18. Moodle Migration
Migration from
Angel LMS to
Moodle
Migration from
Angel LMS to
Moodle

19. 19
Learning environment design: Kathleen Stone

20. Every learning activity in Moodle can be
exported to Mahara ePortfolio
20

21. MOOCmania:
Connectivist Massive Open Online
Courses (cMOOCs)
or
XMOOCS?

22. From: “MOOCs, Hype, and the Precarious State of Higher Ed:
Futurist Bryan Alexander” by Howard Rheingold

24. 24
The Coursera revolution

25. “The starting point of connectivism is the
individual. Personal knowledge is comprised of a
network, which feeds into organizations and
institutions, which in turn feed back into the
network, and then continue to provide learning to
individual. This cycle of knowledge
development (personal to network to
organization) allows learners to remain current in
their field through the connections they have
formed.”
George Siemens
Connectivism:
A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

26. “In a connectivist MOOC, people get out of it what
they put into it,” said Stephen Downes of the
National Research Council of Canada, a pioneer
of the early MOOCs. “It’s something like a Yahoo
group or other interest-based community. But it
has a start date and an end date, and it pulls
people out of different networks and plops them
into a new one, which results in new connections
and gets people hearing new voices.”
"Online Mentors to Guide Women Into the Sciences”
TAMAR LEWIN
September 16, 2012

27. 27
First MOOC in SUNY System
Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager

28. 28
First MOOC in SUNY System

29. http://youtu.be/Stnfj9HFbzw

30. Creativity and Multicultural
Communication
• 492 registered participants (387 still registered)
• 14 Registered for credit (13 completed)
• 2 Registered in summer and completed
• 136 tweets
• 36 registered blog feeds
• 78 blog posts
• 36 discussions
• 96 comments
• Facebook group started by participants continues to be
active
Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager

31. Participant Feedback
• “Thank you, CMC11, I never would have started a blog
without you (I always kind of thought they were silly),
but I’m really starting to enjoy this and see it as a
creative outlet! So I guess the class has been quite
successful for me!”
• “It felt effective and comfortable for me to work
collaboratively with others through a combination of
different Web tools”
• “I LOVED this course! … What an eye opening and
invigorating course ... Hope there are many to come!”
Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager

32. http://math.cdlprojects.com/
Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager

33. Mackey, Thomas P. and Trudi E. Jacobson. “Reframing Information Literacy as
a Metaliteracy” January 2011 College & Research Libraries vol. 72 no. 1 62-78
Next MOOC for fall 2013:
MOOC
#metaliteracy

34. 34
Innovative Instruction Technology Grants (IITG)

35. Goal: 100,000 online learners SUNY
wide in three years

36. From original Open SUNY proposal, Empire State College

37. Chancellor’s Online Education
Advisory Team Recommendation
The Advisory Team recommends “Open SUNY”
be officially adopted as the name of SUNY’s new
online learning initiative. The term Open SUNY
represents an opening up of the educational
opportunities that SUNY can provide through
the enhancement of existing—and development
of new—online education resources, courses
and degree programs.
Getting Down to Business:
Interim Report of the Chancellor’s Online Education Advisory Team

38. • Increase student access, time to degree;
completion
• 10 new online Bachelor degrees in high need
areas
• Online opportunities at every SUNY campus (64)
• 100,000 online learners SUNY wide in three years
• SUNY REAL (recognition of experiential and
academic learning) to accelerate degree
completion; 3 year degrees with SUNY REAL
• Built on “systemness” and integrating common
systems throughout SUNY

39. 1. Open SUNY Consortium
2. Open SUNY Degree
3. Open SUNY Complete
4. Open SUNY Resources
5. Open SUNY REAL
6. Open SUNY Workforce
7. Open SUNY International
8. Open SUNY Research
9. Open SUNY Learning Commons

40. SUNY Board of Trustees Resolution passed
unanimously - March 19, 2013
Empowers the Provost to begin
implementation:
…in broad consultation with University
constituencies, including campus leadership, the
University Faculty Senate, the Faculty Council of
Community Colleges, and the Student Assembly.

41. http://open.suny.edu/

42. SUNY REAL (PLA) ESC Progress
• Lumina Foundation Grant progressing for SUNY-wide
delivery of PLA
• Faculty expert academic team formed last June,
• Team reviewed PLA qualifications framework from over 140
countries – over 50% utilize a PLA framework;
• Examined international, national, and transnational work
for assessing/evaluating college-level learning;
• Team now sketching version 2.0 of the Global Learning
Qualifications Framework draft;
• Presenting work at numerous conferences

43. SUNY Complete (ESC) Progress
• ESC & UAlbany pilot study collecting “Stop Out “data for
future pre-enrollment advising
• Have identified a Pre-Enrollment Advising team
• Developing SUNY Complete website for future rollout;
• Developing marketing materials targeted to identify “stop
outs”
• Creating a project evaluation plan with ESC stop out data
• Initial stop out student outreach targeted - August 1st

46. Let’s discuss the future of open and online
learning based on conference themes:
• Access?
• Quality?
• Opportunities?
• Cautions?

47. Tom Mackey, Ph.D.
Dean
Center for Distance Learning
Tom.Mackey@esc.edu