MTCU Productivity and Innovation Fund

1. MTCUProductivity and Innovation Fund Presented by Ted Scott November 15th, 2013

3. “Multi-institutional Strategy to Assess and Track Programmatic Learning Outcomes” Desire2Learn Mohawk College University of Guelph Laurier University McMaster University Waterloo University

4. Goals of PIF Grant Project • to develop the capacity of a learning outcomes assessment and tracking strategy currently being piloted at the University of Guelph and make it available for adaption to our university and college partners. • to enhance the current system to make it sustainable and scalable to all post-secondary institutions currently using Desire2Learn (D2L) as their Learning Management System (LMS). • to engage further faculty and staff at our institutions in the development of a culture of program assessment. “This goal would enable institutions to keep track and report on their learning outcome attainment over time and across programs, and in turn provide students with a clear sense of the learning outcomes they have achieved in each course as well as in their entire programs of studies.”

5. Five Institutional Learning Outcomes Approved by Board of Governors April 2013 Mohawk College Graduates upon completion of one, two, or three year programs will be able to demonstrate their skills as: • Communicators • Collaborators • Critical Thinkers • Continuous Learners • Responsible Citizens

6. PIF Grant Project – Timeline • Sept 2013 – Dec 2013: • Partner institutions developing and aligning key course assessments with course level outcomes in select courses and programs. • Mohawk: Identifying work plan, technical, staff requirements for use of e-portfolio, identifying programs to pilot in Winter 2014; Developing and training faculty and staff on e-portfolios including guidelines for assessing e-portfolios. • Jan 2014 – Mar 2014: • Mohawk provides 30% of students with eportfolios; by March, initial data from pilot projects will begin to be available to other universities. • May 2014: • Report back to other institutions on goals achieved; sustainability; scalability for system.

7. PIF Grant Project – Timeline • June 2014 - Sept 2014: • Institutions continue work to launch additional programs for next phases of integration; debrief with Desire2Learn, and share knowledge and lessons with MTCU and across Ontario’s post-secondary sector. • At each partner institution, complete the full integration of the learning outcomes system within one selected programs (e.g., Masters of Public Health at Waterloo, one program each in Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Science at Laurier, one program to be identified at McMaster, and an integration of e-portfolios as means of learning outcomes assessment in all programs at Mohawk).

8. PIF Grant Project – Timeline Beyond Sept. 2014: • Continue this integration of Insights to other programs at all partner institutions for a period of 5 years. • Offer support for the expansion of this approach to other institutions that use D2L as their LMS, thus making the project scalable within the post-secondary sector in Ontario. • 5 year commitment.

9. Project Budget

10. PIF Grant – Request for Deans and Associate Deans • Identify 1 faculty member per Associate Dean by Nov. 25th to be Eportfolio Lead • Grant will fund 1 day/week for Eportfolio Leads to: • Consult with their AD s to plan for the adoption of eportfolios by 30% of their students during Winter 2014. • Guide their colleagues in the pedagogical principles of eportfolios. • Guide their colleagues in developing assessments to measure the five Institutional Learning Outcomes. • Guide their colleagues in linking eportfolio artifacts to competencies within the Insights module of D2L.