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DISTANCE EDUCATION: AMERICAN RIVER COLLEGEPRESENTATION TO OTANMARSHA RESKEDISTANCE EDUCATION COORDINATORDECEMBER 6, 2011

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78%

Category: College Preparedness

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What is the percentage of ARC students

who begin underprepared* for college-level work?

*score below transfer-level in reading, writing, and math.

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“Are we as underprepared for underprepared students as they are for our classroom?”Jim Barr, Researcher, ARC

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ABOUT AMERICAN RIVER COLLEGELos Rios Community College District

American River

36,000

Sacramento City

Cosumnes River

Folsom Lake

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10% Online

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ELEARNING MODALITIES

• All class meetings online (exceptions orientation or exams as determined by professor -- 51% +)

Online

• <50% online with scheduled on-ground class meetings

Hybrid

• Class taught face-to-face (supplemented with web-based activity, materials, gradebook, testing)

Web-enhanced

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11,800 ONLINE STUDENTS77% Also enrolled

in on-campus classes

23% Fully online –80% from our service area

70% Female

80 % Continuing students

78% middle & part-time

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Age Groups

17% 18-20

22% 21-2419% 25-2921 % 30-3919% 40+

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Area Enrollments40% Business/Computer

Science

21% Behavioral & Social Sciences

9% Fine & Applied Arts

8% English

STUDENT SUCCESS: NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE

All online 66.5%

Online only 67.1%

Classroom only 67 %

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GROWTH IN ONLINE

Fall 2003Today

84course

sections

383 course

sections

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LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS) ADOPTION

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BEFORE LMS AFTER LMS<p>Dear student,</p><p>Welcome to this free, fun course that will help you learn how to use <strong>Desire2Learn (D2L).</strong></p>

Dear student,Welcome to this free, fun course that will help you learn how to use Desire2Learn (D2L).

LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS) USE

TODAY

42,426 Students

441 Faculty

1348 Sections

Fall 2003

12,219 Students

ARC’sOnline Teaching Institute

700+ Trained

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Engagement

Interaction

Collaboration

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LMS + Web 2.0 tools

Image: http://designwashere.com/

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Students

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INNOVATIONS WITH LIMITED FUNDING

Challenges

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ENSURING ADA COMPLIANCEChallenges

“Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called ‘gateways to all human knowledge’.”

-Ray Kurzweil

Image from presentation: Mobility Matters: Providing Apps That Connect, Communicate, and Create - Kyle Bowen, Purdue

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RESOURCESContact me, Marsha Reske at reskem@arc.losrios.edu

ARC’s Instructional Technology Center http://ic.arc.losrios.edu/~itc/

Horizon Report 2011 : describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122

Rubric for Online Instruction: http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/

Top 100 Tools for eLearning: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100-2010.html