NROC Network Members Conference March 1, 2010 Gary Lopez, Ph.D. Executive Director

1. NROC NetworkMembers ConferenceMarch 1, 2010Gary Lopez, Ph.D.Executive Director

2. Update Topics • Network Membership and NROC Usage • New Development: Algebra and Dev Math • OER and the Federal Stimulus Investment

3. 2010 Network Members Iowa Community Colleges Online Consortium Los Angeles Unified School District Louisiana Virtual School Lubbock Independent School District Online (TX) Maryland State Department of Education Michigan Virtual High School Mid-Hudson Regional BOCES Consortium (NY) Minnesota Learning Commons (statewide P-20) Minneapolis Public Schools Online Mississippi Virtual School (DOE) Missouri Dept. of Elem. and Secondary Education Montana Virtual Academy Montana State University at Billings Myron B. Thompson Academy (HI) National Association of Beginning Teachers Niles Township High School District (IL) Nebraska: Partnerships for Innovation (statewide P-20) North Carolina Community College System North Dakota Center for Distance Education North Salinas High School (CA) Northwest Area Education Agency (IA) Oregon Department of Education Open High School of Utah (NV) Portland State University Riverside Unified School District (CA) Salish Kootenai College (MT) San Jose Education Foundation (CA) San Luis Obispo County Board of Education (CA) School District of the Chathams (NJ) Sierra Vista High School (CA) South Carolina Virtual School (DOE) Academy School District 20 Online (CO) Alabama ACCESS (DOE) Albuquerque Public Schools (NM) Anaheim Union High School District (CA) Arizona Department of Education Bambugare Network (Sub-Saharan Africa) Bethel Covenant College (Uganda) California State University at Fullerton Catholic School K12 Virtual Center to Bridge the Digital Divide (WSU) Chattanooga State Tech.& Comm. College (TN) Chesterfield School District (VA) CORE (China) Clark County School District (NV) Colorado Community Colleges Online Colorado Online Learning CUDI (Mexico) Florida Distance Learning Consortium Georgia Virtual School (DOE) GLBTQ Online High School (MN) Global Literacy Foundation (AZ) Greenville County Virtual School (SC) Grossmont Union High School (CA) Gwinnett County Online Campus (GA) Kentucky Statewide Consortium (statewide P-20) Hudson Schools of Technology (NJ) Idaho Digital Learning Academy IDEAL-New Mexico Illinois Virtual School (DOE) Indian Prairie School District #204 (IL) Innovative Education Design (Korea) Tulare County Office of Education (CA) University of Alaska at Fairbanks University of California, Irvine University of Georgia System Board of Regents Utah Electronic High School University of Texas at Brownsville UT System TeleCampus Valley Christian School (CA) Virtual Virginia (DOE) WSU International Research and Development West Virginia University-Parkersburg West Virginia DOE Whitfield County School District (GA) Partner Advisors: Council of Chief State Supervisors and Officers (CCSSO) Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) 2009-2010 Advisors

4. 2010 Network Members Iowa Community Colleges Online Consortium Los Angeles Unified School District Louisiana Virtual School Lubbock Independent School District Online (TX) Maryland State Department of Education Michigan Virtual High School Mid-Hudson Regional BOCES Consortium (NY) Minnesota Learning Commons (statewide P-20) Minneapolis Public Schools Online Mississippi Virtual School (DOE) Missouri Dept. of Elem. and Secondary Education Montana Virtual Academy Montana State University at Billings Myron B. Thompson Academy (HI) National Association of Beginning Teachers Niles Township High School District (IL) Nebraska: Partnerships for Innovation (statewide P-20) North Carolina Community College System North Dakota Center for Distance Education North Salinas High School (CA) Northwest Area Education Agency (IA) Oregon Department of Education Open High School of Utah (NV) Portland State University Riverside Unified School District (CA) Salish Kootenai College (MT) San Jose Education Foundation (CA) San Luis Obispo County Board of Education (CA) School District of the Chathams (NJ) Sierra Vista High School (CA) South Carolina Virtual School (DOE) Academy School District 20 Online (CO) Alabama ACCESS (DOE) Albuquerque Public Schools (NM) Anaheim Union High School District (CA) Arizona Department of Education Bambugare Network (Sub-Saharan Africa) Bethel Covenant College (Uganda) California State University at Fullerton Catholic School K12 Virtual Center to Bridge the Digital Divide (WSU) Chattanooga State Tech.& Comm. College (TN) Chesterfield School District (VA) CORE (China) Clark County School District (NV) Colorado Community Colleges Online Colorado Online Learning CUDI (Mexico) Florida Distance Learning Consortium Georgia Virtual School (DOE) GLBTQ Online High School (MN) Global Literacy Foundation (AZ) Greenville County Virtual School (SC) Grossmont Union High School (CA) Gwinnett County Online Campus (GA) Kentucky Statewide Consortium (statewide P-20) Hudson Schools of Technology (NJ) Idaho Digital Learning Academy IDEAL-New Mexico Illinois Virtual School (DOE) Indian Prairie School District #204 (IL) Innovative Education Design (Korea) Tulare County Office of Education (CA) University of Alaska at Fairbanks University of California, Irvine University of Georgia System Board of Regents Utah Electronic High School University of Texas at Brownsville UT System TeleCampus Valley Christian School (CA) Virtual Virginia (DOE) WSU International Research and Development West Virginia University-Parkersburg West Virginia DOE Whitfield County School District (GA) Partner Advisors: Council of Chief State Supervisors and Officers (CCSSO) Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) New Members

5. Membership Usage* * 35-50% of members reporting each year

6. Revenue Growth

7. What’s New?: NROC Consulting

8. HippoCampus.org

9. HippoCampus Usage 3.14 Million Visits 50.41 Million Pageviews

10. What’s New?: Annotation

11. What’s New?: Annotation

12. What’s New?: Add a Book

13. What’s New?: Add a Book

14. Algebra 1 Project Update • Production Schedule • Extensive prototyping and focus group work in 2009 • All systems built and full production initiated • Semester 1 to be published July 2010, and • Semester 2 to be published October 2010

15. Algebra 1 Project Update • Product Features • Correlated to all US state frameworks and the Common Core • Correlated to widely-adopted algebra textbooks • LO architecture: 12 Units, 26 Lessons, 72 Topics • Designed for online and hybrid classroom use • Single-session formative assessment • Supporting teacher professional development • Rich, interactive multimedia with multiple instructional elements

16. Algebra 1 Project Update • Product Features • Correlated to all US state frameworks and the Common Core • Correlated to widely-adopted algebra textbooks • LO architecture: 12 Units, 26 Lessons, 72 Topics • Designed for online and hybrid classroom use • Single-session formative assessment • Supporting teacher professional development • Rich, interactive multimedia with multiple instructional elements

17. Algebra 1 Project Update • Instructional Elements include, • At the topic level: • warm-up (text) • presentation (video, audio, animation, and graphics) • worked examples (audio and graphics) • problems (interactive text) • review (text) • Read It (online textbook) At the lesson level: • virtual tutor (interactive video, graphics, text) • project (text and graphics) • Digital Manipulative (interactive animation, graphics)

18. Algebra 1 Project Update

19. Algebra 1 Project Update

20. Algebra 1 Project Update

21. Algebra 1 Project Update

22. Developmental Math Project • We got it! • $5M from Gates and $1M from Hewlett • Funding began October 2009 • Project runs from 2009-2012 • Focus groups through project • First course published December 2010 • Partnered with AMATYC

23. Developmental Math Project Project Goal: Increasing the number of financially-disadvantaged students that pass developmental math Project Approach: • Developing new educational interventions (“Standing on the shoulders of the best educators.”) • Developing an enterprise for national distribution and sustainability (“It is more than building a better mouse trap.”) • Engaging student, instructors, and administrator in the product and enterprise design (“Honoring everybody and making real change happen.”)

24. Developmental Math: Work to Date Focus Groups What is the product and enterprise? Strategic Partnerships How do we reach the target audience? NROC and Algebra Development What are the product and business development processes? Taxonomy What is the curriculum?

25. Taxonomy Developmental Math: Taxonomy

26. Developmental Math: Taxonomy Goals: • Provide institutions and students with learning activities to support an efficient path to credit-bearing courses • Support both flexible course configurations and a collection of learning objects • Support multiple curricula (NROC members, AMATYC New Vision, Common Core State Standards)

27. Developmental Math: Taxonomy Common Curriculum Partners

28. Developmental Math: Taxonomy Four “courses”: arithmetic, beginning algebra, intermediate algebra, and geometry The collection of course content composed of: 17 units containing, 51 lessons, containing, 116 topics, with, 346 explicit learning objectives to allow fine-grained assessment

29. Developmental Math Project Focus Groups Colorado Community Colleges - Denver American Association of Community Colleges - Seattle Iowa Assoc. of Community College Trustees- Des Moines Innovations Conference - Reno Michigan Virtual School - Lansing Napa Valley College Maryland Dept. of Education - Baltimore US Distance Learning Association Conference – St. Louis Los Medanos College & Antioch High School Denver School of Science, West Denver Prep & Mesa Middle School – Castle Rock, CO West Mesa High School – Albuquerque, NM Tennessee Board of Regents - Nashville Innovations Conference -Baltimore NROC members’ meeting - Monterey Jemez Pueblo High School, Jemez, NM LA Unified School District - Los Angeles National Council of Teachers of Mathematics – San Diego Engage students in content development Engage instructors and administrators in enterprise planning

30. Focus groups: 2009 key findings • Keep it simple: developmental students and ELLs value simplicity • Real-world examples are a key to engagement • Students and instructors want support for multiple learning styles • Challenges, animations, simple illustrations, and problem sets are important

31. Focus groups: 2009 key findings • Professional development and staff adoption are key issues in community colleges • Few instructors and institutions are locked into an existing teaching method or digital product • Cost and flexibility of digital products are important ongoing concerns

32. Focus groups: 2009 key findings • Participants are looking for new ways to approach math • Math redesigns in TN, AL and elsewhere • Revisiting standards and requirements • This is a dynamic and critical time in math instruction • Student diversity makes it essential to provide content with different context and voices

33. Math Focus Groups Focus Groups 2010 Schedule: • Los Medanos CC and Antioch HS, CA (early March) • Innovations Conference, The League (late March) • American Association Community Colleges (April) • And more… • Get the math product you want . . . • host a focus group at your school.

34. ARRA 2009

35. Race to the Top

36. Federal Stimulus and OER