stem tech presentation tric math mooc
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Gates Grant Funded MOOC initiative using all existing open educational resources. Went live in 2013, and is currently available in an unfacilitated format on coursesites.com,TRANSCRIPT
WELCOME
Cheryl Knight Senior Instructional Designer
Michael Wilkins Associate Professor, Mathematics
Can a MOOC Reduce Time in
Developmental Education? A MOOC Case Study on Increasing Developmental Education Student Success
STEMTech 2014 Math MOOC presentation by Cheryl Knight, Sasha Thackaberry, Michael Wilkins is
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Cuyahoga Community College
www.tri-c.edu
Cleveland, OH
50,000 Students Annually
4 Separate Campuses
Approx: 90% DevEd Math
Approx: 75% DevEd English
• Faculty
• Administration
• Students
• Corporate partners
Who initiates innovative
projects at your institution?
Timeline
2012 2013
September October December/
January
January and
February
March June
Submitted
grant
proposal
Grant
awarded
Brainstorm Curate and
build
First session
began
Last session
ended
Rapid Development
Gamified
Traditional MOOC• Student population highly
educated
• Functions like a traditional online course
• High use of instructional video
• Instructor or expert-focused
• Completion vs success
Tri-Cs Gamified MOOC
• Student population little or no college
• Use of existing OER
• Leveling up
• Low-risk failure environment
• Digital Badge Use
• Completion = success
Think you have what it takes?It's a long walk through the jungle to base camp. In the quests below, earn fresh water and food to
prepare for the Challenge on Real Numbers.
Facilitation and Monitoring
• 4 x4 weeks terms
• Faculty had daily assignments to monitor question boards and rotated weekends.
• Face to face technology based session
• Time commitment
• Who has enrolled?
• How many started?
• How many completed the MOOC?
• Complete and place in a higher course?
What data is most important when
evaluating the effectiveness of the MOOC?
Highest Level of Educational Attainment
Level Count Percentage
Middle school 67 10%
High school 143 21%
Some college 261 39%
Associates degree 40 6%
Bachelors degree 68 10%
Masters degree 75 11%
PhD 17 3%
Currently Enrolled in Higher Education
Level Count Percentage
2 yr 222 27.4%
4 yr 25 3.1%
MA/MS 9 1.1%
PhD 5 0.6%
Completion Stats
Comparable Tri-C Course Data,
Spring 2013
Pass
With
A-B
Total Grades
Awarded,
Excluding Audits
% of
Total
Total # Enrolled in MATH 0910,
excluding Audits
425 1498 28.4%
Tri-C MOOC 147 809 18%
# receiving survey 1372
# responding 809
# responders who completed
course
147 (or 18.4%)
TRI-C COMPASS DATA
Same Placement,
Higher Test Score
or Comparable
Higher Test Score,
Placed Higher
Course
Placed out of Dev
Ed
3 7 3
23.1% 53.8% 23.1%
64 students identified as Tri-C students and provided S#
13 provided pre- and post-test results through COMPASS
Total of 76% (10 of 13) improved to a higher placement and/or
out of Developmental Math
Institutional Now What?
Cons
• Unclear how to expand to all DevEd Math
• Difficult to track progress externally
• Faculty compensation model
Pro
• It works- increased success rates in those we could track
• Stand alone or supplemental tool
• Serves a model for other disciplines
Reflection
No release time for faculty to continue to build or monitor in current format
Design and development needs subject mater experts (faculty) to vet content
Commitment to concept, but not yet worked out in practice.
Who owns it? How is it going to move forward?
Contact and MOOC info
Send an e-mail to
[email protected]•All of our contact information
• Information on how to access the full MOOC
*No animals, designers, or faculty were hurt in the process of MOOC developments
STEMTech 2014 Math MOOC presentation by Cheryl Knight, Sasha Thackaberry, Michael Wilkins is
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Thank You
MOOC graphics are creative commons licensed with credit to Carl E. Nestor
Non-presenting co-author Sasha Thackaberry
STEMTech 2014 Math MOOC presentation by Cheryl Knight, Sasha Thackaberry, Michael Wilkins is
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.