The strategic technology plan outlines five strategies to leverage technology and reduce costs: 1) Create online teaching tools for anytime learning, 2) Create online student services, 3) Create lifelong learning for faculty/staff, 4) Use data to improve student success and efficiency, 5) Treat IT as a centrally funded service. It recommends centralizing systems, sharing resources, and treating technology as a baseline service. Implementing the plan could save millions and increase access for students through online learning and open educational resources.

1. Strategic Technology Plan Using Technology to Take a Bite Out of the Budget Crunch Cable Green eLearning Director

2. Technology Transformation Task Force The strategic technology plan is the product of an 18-month analysis conducted by the Technology Transformation Task Force of the SBCTC for the purpose of creating a roadmap for how our system needs to leverage 21st century technologies to support student achievement. Conversation went something like this: Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e50YBu14j3U

3. http://techplan.sbctc.edu

4. Strategy I: Create a single, system-wide suite of online teaching and learning tools that provides all Washington students with easy access to “anywhere, anytime” learning. Strategy II: Create a seamless P-20 system for personalized online student services including: recruitment, retention, advising, course catalogue, transfer, and financial aid management. Strategy III: Create a system of lifelong learning and change management for faculty, staff and college leadership. Strategy IV: Use data to drive continuous improvement in both student success and administrative efficiency. Strategy V: Treat information technology as a centrally funded, baseline service in the system budget. Five strategies for transformation

5. Recommendations / Big Ideas 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

6. Recommendations / Big Ideas Cost Savings licenses, hosting, help desk, professional development transaction costs: integration, RFPs, vendor relationships Value Proposition Don’t focus local resources (people, money, time) on commodity technology services Use best solutions wherever they may be Video

7. Recommendations / Big Ideas Have a P-20 conversation New IT Governance CIS moved to SBCTC Align decision making, policy and funding Open Educational Resources Use others and share our digital content Move toward open textbooks

8. Work Completed Elluminate (system + HECB) - DEMO 1,290 faculty & staff accounts 3,010 rooms online 671 meetings have taken place $155K / year ( unlimited license, hosting, training) WashingtonOnline “Angel” LOR, sharing courses, ePortfolio Open textbooks – joined CCC OER 24/7 virtual library reference : $12K / year

9. Work Completed Reduced WashingtonOnline Technology Fee Old WAOL Technology Fee: $8 / credit / student / course New WAOL Technology Fee: $4 / user / quarter Unlimited use: one or more ANGEL courses, ePortfolios and/or collaboration spaces Old: Three 5-credit courses in WAOL was $120 New: Three (or more) 5-credit courses in WAOL is $4

10. Work Completed CheckOutACollege http://checkoutacollege.com Over 14,000 visitors in nine months; Nearly 100,000 page views Students are spending over 7.5 minutes per visit Over 28,000 have visited the career interest survey on the site

11. Ongoing Online Learning Growth 2004 annualized FTE = 9,372 2008 annualized FTE = 18,038 Over 83,000 students learn online each year eLearning enrollments up more than 23% (Fall 07 – Fall 08) Growth projections: by 2019, 51% or 78,344 of system FTE will be enrolled in online or hybrid courses

12. Ongoing Online Learning Growth 45% of all CTC graduates earn 15 or more credits online or hybrid 2008 summer online enrollments increased between 30 and 216 percent 23 colleges offer 86 different degrees and certificates online 16 colleges offer an AA degree online Community and Technical Colleges teach over 80% of all online FTE in WA higher education

13. 2008 Online + Hybrid Learning Gas / Carbon Savings 1.9M round trips avoided = reduced traffic congestion 2.1M gallons of gas saved x 19.4 lbs = 42 million pounds of carbon dioxide that did not go into the air http://www.fhcrc.org/about/pubs/center_news/weekly/img/2007_0806_i5_traffic.jpg

14. Presidents Understand the Need to Change Presidents voted unanimously to support the Strategic Technology Plan WACTC Technology Committee track implementation of the Strategic Technology Plan: “Score Card” communicate system solutions

15. Funding System Solutions is the Greatest Challenge Leverage the buying power of entire system Cost effective to use common systems and support services Large travel and per diem offsets using technology Association Conference in Elluminate 1 ½ day Commission / Council meeting = $10K+ Partnerships: Public and private

16. “ This plan represents our sense of extreme urgency to catch up, keep up and provide all colleges and students the technological tools and services they need to succeed in the 21 st century.”

17. What is Next for WashingtonOnline? Colleges looking at ANGEL (lower tech fee) new capability to share content system-wide Use existing Pooled Enrollment In bad budget times – colleges close programs. How will you deliver your students the courses they need? Enrolling College – keeps all FTE & Tuition Teaching College – gets $50/credit hour/student Student gets the course she needs! WashingtonOnline facilitates – takes no $

18. What is Next? Redesign and Open 100 courses Open textbooks, open courseware “ Go-Forward” (administrative systems) Leveraging networked IT Services “in the cloud” Allows colleges to “go core” i.e., focus on learning and student services

19. Let’s Look @ Open Textbooks Dr. Judy Baker Dean, Foothill Global Access Director, Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (…next set of slides are “mashed up” Judy slides) www.collegeopentextbooks.org

20. Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks in community college courses cccoer.wordpress.com

21. Community College Open Textbook Project Goal Identify, organize, and support the production and use of high quality, accessible and culturally relevant Open Textbooks for community college students Reduce the cost of textbooks!

22. 84 colleges from AZ, CA, IA, MD, NV, NY, OH, TX, WA, Ontario CCCOER Membership

23. Remember this rite of passage?

24. The first test is students’ ability to afford the textbooks.

25. Use of OER and open textbooks can replace this scene with:

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29. Comparison of Statistics Textbooks Publisher: Wiley Open: Connexions & QOOP Downloadable version: $77.50 Downloadable & online versions: FREE Printed bound version: $141.95 new $110.25 used Printed bound version: $31.98 new

30. Introductory Statistics by Mann Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Organizing and Graphing Data Chapter 3 Numerical Descriptive Measures Chapter 4 Probability Chapter 5 Discrete Random Variables and Their Probability Distributions Chapter 6 Continuous Random Variables and the Normal Distribution Chapter 7 Sampling Distributions Chapter 8 Estimation of the Mean and Proportion Chapter 9 Hypothesis Tests About the Mean and Proportion Chapter 10 Estimation and Hypothesis Testing: Two Populations Chapter 11 Chi-Square Tests Chapter 12 Analysis of Variance Chapter 13 Simple Linear Regression Chapter 14 Multiple Regression Chapter 15 Nonparametric Methods1 © 2007, 720 pages Required textbook for Math 12 at Cabrillo College

31. Collaborative Statistics by Illowsky and Dean Table of Contents 1. Sampling and Data 2. Descriptive Statistics 3. Probability Topics 4. Discrete Random Variables 5. Continuous Random Variables 6. The Normal Distribution 7. The Central Limit Theorem 8. Confidence Intervals 9. Hypothesis Testing: Single Mean and Single Proportion 10. Hypothesis Testing: Two Means, Paired Data, Two Proportions 11. The Chi-Square Distribution 12. Linear Regression and Correlation 13. F Distribution and ANOVA © 2008, 600 pages Required textbook for Math 10 at De Anza College

32. Raise your hand if your college teaches “Introductory Statistics”

33. General Physics 600 pages New $179.00 Used $125.00

35. Raise your hand if your college teaches “Introductory Physics”

36. Raise your hand if your college teaches Elementary Algebra

37. Do you want to go through the rest of your general education textbooks?

38. Benefits Lowers the costs of educational materials for students...

39. Benefits Gives faculty tools for freedom from publishers’ dictates about learning, content, and delivery.

40. Challenges Faculty and student resistance to change Limited availability of high quality and comprehensive learning materials in some disciplines Inadequate access to high-speed Internet by students

41. Challenges Compliance with accessibility requirements Printing and computer lab demands on campus by students Coordination with campus bookstores

42. Open Textbook Adoption Locate open textbooks for consideration Evaluate each textbook for selection Customize, remix, and organize selected textbook Disseminate in print and digital formats http://emharrington.com/rex/images/adoptadog/Adopt_Me.jpg

43. Locate Open Textbooks for Consideration MERLOT Connexions Wikibooks OER Commons Global Text Project http://rtnl.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/thinker21.jpg

44. Evaluate Each Textbook Quality Accessibility Cultural relevance Currency Authority of Source Reading level Depth and scope Quality and Accuracy Articulation

45. Customize, Remix, and Organize

46. Disseminate Open Textbook Digital formats Printed format Student (DIY) Campus bookstore Campus print-shop services Proprietary services http://images.lexcycle.com/screenshots/feedbooks_library.jpg

47. Faculty Role Need faculty to help create, review, and promote use of open textbooks Support release time for development and modification of open textbooks Give credit toward tenure for faculty work on open textbook development

48. What Happens if we Don’t Change? Google, Amazon, Apple, Open Source, Open Content, Open Textbooks… Higher Education Functional Possibilities Time Harder to catch-up … Or even understand.

49. Higher Education’s Future Role? “ I’ve been trying to gain a better sense of the role universities will play in society in the future. At one point, we thought content was the value point of universities. Wrong. MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative changed that. Ok, then the interaction with faculty is the value point. And wrong again. Open communication and collaboration in online environments with networks of peers and experts gave us control over our interactions. Fine. Then the value point is accreditation . Yes, for now. Our ability to rate, review, comment, and provide feedback has increased with the development of the read/write web. I’m not sure how long we can build education’s value on the concept of accreditation.” George Siemens: blog post: explaining leads to information

50. Free Global Online University Will this new higher education model succeed? http://www.uopeople.com/ NY Times Article But make no mistake… the powerful combination of digital open educational resources, social networking, retiring baby-boomer volunteers, falling technology and bandwidth prices, variable cost structures, and the billions of people globally who need / want access to a higher education … is real – and it will drive change.

51. Cable’s Answer … I think Our new role (at least for now) is to be synthesizers and leverage networked IT, networked knowledge, and networked expertise… and put together high quality, cost effective learning environments that help more students get to higher levels of education.

52. http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu Dr. Cable Green eLearning Director cgreen@sbctc.edu (360) 704-4334