strategies to scale adaptive course design

Strategies to Scale Adaptive Course Design

Jeremy AndersonThe American Women’s College

TAWC’s Model

Access mission

1600 students

300 courses across 20 UG majors

6-week sessions

Primarily OL

Central course management

Master

Section 1

Section 2Section 3

Why Adaptive?

CompletePersistGraduate

Adaptive Courses at TAWC

25

30

80

14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18

Challenges to Scale

(1) Change

Subject matter expert (SME) role

Instructional design (ID) role

Faculty role

Student role

Program outcomes

Course outcomes

Module outcomes

Concept listsConcept lists

Concept 1

Concept 2

Concept 3

Concept 4

Concept 5 Concept 6

SMEs & IDs

Faculty

Navigating

Accessing data

Conducting interventions

Students

Metacognition

Self-remediation

Concept 1

Concept 2

Concept 3

Concept 4

Concept 5 Concept 6

(2) Communication

Faculty

Advisors

Students

What’s the Frequency?

Faculty

Is this going to replace me?

Students

Why am I teaching myself?

(3) Resources

Content source

SME

ID

Platform

Content

2xQuestions

5x

Text

Questions

Alternative media

More questions

and alternatives

SME

Art Appreciation

IDFormat

Ingest

Content

Platform

Pause!

Questions and Comments?

Strategies to Scale

Onward and Upward

Change Management

Redefine tasks & skills

Support

Motivate

Communicate

Human resource development

Communicate, Communicate

Example: Human Resources Development

Define KSAs

Identify gaps

Training stack to fill gaps

AdaptiveTAWC /

SOUL

CoP/CoI Engage Feedback

Nav KPConduct

remedGrade

Coach Evaluate

OER /

fair useADA

Write

??’s

Curate

content

Concept

map

Project

Manage

Concept

list

So you want to design

KnowledgePath courses?

So you want to teach

KnowledgePath courses?

All SMEs

Curating

SME

Mapping

SME

Lead KP

faculty

KP faculty

All faculty

Everyone at

TAWC

Align

Curric

Example: Communication loop

Design

Beta

RefineImplement

Feedback

Performance data

Student survey

Faculty form

Demos

Webinars

QA process

Example: Communication channels

Resource

Content

SME

ID

Platform

Optimization

Content vendors

Curating vendors

Assessment vendors

Curation Feedback Form

Caption Request Form

Technical framework

Macro-enabled forms

To infinity and beyond…

Outcomes

AssessmentContent Outputs

Questions?

jeanderson@baypath.edu

Thank You!

jeanderson@baypath.edu