Opening Developmental Math: New Resources for New Approaches

1. Opening Developmental Math:New Resources for New Approaches Terri Rowenhorst Director of NROC Member Services

2. Unique Among Open Educational Resources • Quality • Curricular • Adaptable • Sustainable www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc

3. NROC Library High School Course Foundations College Prep Physics I College Prep Physics II Algebra 1a Algebra 1b Curso de Algebra 1A (Spanish) Curso de Algebra 1B (Spanish) • College • Course Foundations • US History I • US History II • American Government • Introductory Physics I (algebra-based) • Introductory Physics II (algebra-based) • General Physics I (calculus-based) • General Physics II (calculus-based) • Introductory Calculus I • Introductory Calculus II • General Calculus I • General Calculus II • Environmental Science • Non-Majors Biology • Religions of the World • Elementary Algebra • Psychology • Calculo General I (Spanish) • Calculo General II (Spanish) • Statistics for the Social Sciences • Advanced Placement • Course Foundations • AP Environmental Science • AP Physics B I • AP Physics B II • AP Physics C I • AP Physics C II • AP US History I • AP US History IIAP US Government and Politics • AP Calculus AB I • AP Calculus AB II • AP Calculus BC I • AP Calculus BC II • AP Biology • NEW in 2011-12 • Algebra 1 - An Open Course • Developmental Math – An Open Program • Arithmetic • Beginning Algebra • Intermediate Algebra • Geometry and Statistics Topics

4. Mathematics: A National Challenge Source: Final report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel

5. Source: NCPR_Cullinane/Treisman_Statway 2010

6. New Approaches What options have you explored? • Course Redesign: Emporium, Other • Modularization &/or Acceleration • Self-paced Options • Learning Communities • New Assessment Models • Expanded Tutoring Options Who is tackling the issue? • Faculty • Academic Affairs • Admissions/Assessment • Student Services What’s in Your toolbox? • New technologies • Analytics • Online learning environments • Diagnostic tools • Digital Media/OER

7. NROC Developmental Math―An Open Program • Project Goal: Increase the number of financially-disadvantaged students who pass developmental math as a bridge to a college education Funding: $5M from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $1 M from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Project Audience: • Ages 18-80 (average age = 28) • Students have failed math at least once Objectives: • Provide learning activities to support an efficient path to credit-bearing courses • Offer multiple modes of instruction • Support multiple curricular standards • Allow for flexible course configurations with a collection of learning objects • Leverage the power of digital media

8. NROC Development Approach Focus Groups/Pilots Research Technology & Engineering Product Design Professional Development Curriculum

9. NROC Developmental Math Focus Groups Focus Groups *Financially Disadvantaged Target Institutions

10. Focus Group Key Findings Administrators and Faculty • Professional development is essential for supporting teacher success • Few instructors and institutions are satisfied with existing methods or digital options • Existing digital products: • too expensive • inflexible curricula • proprietary management system • High value placed on flexibility, affordability, multiple pathways for learners

11. Focus Group Key Findings Students • Keep it simple: struggling students and English language learners value simplicity • Real-world examples and application are a key to engagement • Puzzles, animations, simple illustrations, and problem sets are important • Humor, esoteric example, and idioms trip-up or confuse struggling students especially English language learners • Students appreciate and identify with the presenters and real work examples

12. Review the Details in the Report Focus Group Report Download it under Project News at:

13. NROC Developmental Math―An Open Program • Modules: arithmetic, beginning algebra, intermediate algebra, with geometry and statistics topics per AMATYC recommendations • Instructional elements: • At the topic level (97 Topics): • warm-up (text) • presentation (video, audio, animation, and graphics) • worked examples (audio and graphics) • problems (interactive text) • review (text) • text tab (online textbook) At the unit level (18 Units): • virtual tutor (interactive video, graphics, text) • project (text and graphics) • puzzles (game-based, interactive animation, graphics) • 346 explicit learning objectives to allow fine-grained assessment.

14. Unit Organization

15. The topic home page orients learners to the objective and activities they may use to master the concepts and procedures within the topic. Students may work through the elements in order, jump to the elements assigned by their teacher, or to those elements they have discovered to be the best starting place for their personal learning approach.

16. Warm-ups provide pre-assessment to test prior knowledge and recommend review.

17. Recommended review at the end of the Warm Up links students back to content they should know before proceeding with the topic.

18. Presentations offer a media-rich conceptual introduction to the topic with illustrated examples, and real-world applications. Different presenters appear throughout the course to appeal to different students.

19. Worked examples have been created by Salman Khan of Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org). Sal walks students through step-by-step examples (one for each objective) pointing out recommended strategies and procedures while writing the problems on the virtual blackboard. Careful use of color helps students see important information as they work through each problem.

20. Practice problems - symbolic and word - are designed in adaptive sets, and offer students immediate feedback. Problems may be one of nine different types and include manipulatives.

21. The Summary Screen at the end of the Practice problems provides students with feedback. Students can click on the links provided to go directly to the material they should study before attempting the Review.

22. An integrated textbook provides comprehensive coverage of topics with additional explanations, manipulatives and examples. These pages may be printed per topic, or as a complete textbook for off-line studying and note-taking.

23. Review offers the learner an opportunity to self-test their understanding prior to moving to the next topic.

24. A Review summary points students to the Topic Text for further review as needed. With SCORM-compliant installations, results from the Review will be reported directly to the LMS gradebook.

25. Tutor simulations offer students directed guidance in problem solving. These simulations allow students to work step-by-step through a problem which requires them to understand and use the math from an entire unit. The tutor provides feedback and hints based on the options students select at each stage of the activity.

26. Projects are unit-level, collaborative assignments in the project-based learning tradition to solve real-world problems. Each project provides a multi-step problem, basic instructions and guidance, and a list of resources for students to explore.

27. Drawing upon research on games and learning, each unit includes a Puzzle which give learners a chance to reinforce math concepts in a fun, no-fault environment.

28. Competency-Based Instruction Coming in 2012

29. Release Schedule Release Dates Developmental Math – An Open Program Arithmetic Module– Beta Available NOW Beginning Algebra Module – Beta Available NOW Intermediate Algebra Module – Winter 2012 Statistics and Geometry Topics – Summer 2012 Spanish closed captions coming in 2012 in cooperation with the University of Guadalajara 2011-12: Pilot Diverse Use Cases with Select Programs

30. NROC Research Pilot Program Administrators, Instructors, Students Questionnaires Interviews in use – on-site and online Performance Data

31. Pilots: Case Study Approach • Goals: • To gather data on course completion and competence by class, compared to traditional models, in order to evaluative the relative efficacy of the materials • To outline the details of diverse use cases as models to be shared with others implementing new approaches. • Case study approach evaluates student • Attitude • Persistence • Competence

32. 2011-2012 Research Pilot Sites Colleges And Others Camosun College Central Piedmont Community College Community College of Denver Jacksonville State College Medgar Evers College Mid Georgia College Pierce College Renton Technical College Salish Kootenai College Scottsdale Community College Sinclair Community College St. Louis Community College West Virginia Univ. at Parkersburg Bethel School District /Frontier Jr. High California Community Colleges Economic & Workforce Development Culver City Adult School Montana Digital Academy (Online K12) Oakridge School District Poway Unified School District Santa Cruz City Schools (Credit Recovery) SIATech (Adult Ed programs) Pilot program will expand for January 2012 Limited space for others, contact us for more information. And informal trials by other NROC Network Members…

33. Fall 2011 Members Academy School District 20 Online (CO) Alabama ACCESS (DOE) Albuquerque Public Schools (NM) Anaheim Union High School District (CA) Arizona Department of Education Bay Port High School (WI) Berkeley Tutoring Coalition Bishop O’Dowd High School Butler Tech & Career Dvpt. (OH) California State University at Fullerton Calvert County Public Schools (MD) Camosun College (BC) Catholic School K12 Virtual Central Piedmont Community College Chattanooga State College (TN) Chesterfield School District (VA) CORE (China) Colorado Community Colleges Online Colorado Online Learning Community College of Denver CUDI (Mexico) Culver City Unified School District eMINTS/ Univ of Missouri Exeter Public Schools (CA) Forest Charter School Georgia Virtual School (DOE) GLBTQ Online High School (MN) Greenville County Virtual School (SC) Grossmont Union High School (C A) Horry County Schools (SC) Howard Couty Public Schools (MD) Grand Rapids Public Schools (MI) Gwinnett County Online Campus (GA) Kentucky Statewide Consortium (statewide ) Idaho Digital Learning Academy IDEAL-New Mexico Illinois Virtual School (DOE) Iowa Community College Online Consortium Iowa AEA Consortium Jacksonville State College (AL) Joliet Junior College Los Angeles Unified School District Lee’s Summit School District Louisiana Virtual School Lubbock Independent School District Online (TX) Lyndon State College (VT) Maryland State Department of Education Mason City School District (OH) Medgar Evers College (NY) Michigan Virtual High School Minnesota Learning Commons (statewide\ Missouri Dept. of Elem. and Secondary Education Montana Digital Academy Montana State University at Billings Montgomery County Public Schools (VA) Myron B. Thompson Academy (HI) National Association of Beginning Teachers Niles Township High School District (IL) Niswonger Foundation (TN) North Carolina Community College System Odyssey Charter Schools (NV) Oregon Department of Education OTAN – Sacramento County Ofc. of Educ. Open High School of Utah (NV) Palmetto State e-Cadamy Pierce College (WA) Placer Union High School District (CA) Prince Georges County Public School (MD) Portland State University Renton Technical College (WA) Riverside Unified School District (CA) School & Main Institute (MA) SIATech Salish Kootenai College (MT) San Diego County Office of Education San Luis Obispo County Board of Education (CA) Santa Barbara County Education Office Schenectady City Schools (NY) School District of the Chathams (NJ) Scottsdale Community College Sierra Vista High School (CA) Sinclair Community College Sonoma County Office of Education South Carolina Virtual School (DOE) Tulare County Office of Education (CA) Ulster County BOCES (Mid-Hudson RIC) (NY) University of Alaska at Fairbanks University of California, Irvine University System of Georgia Board of Regents Universidad de Guadalajara (MX) Utah Electronic High School University of Texas El Paso University of Texas at Brownsville Valley Christian School (CA) West Virginia DOE West Virginia University at Parkersburg

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35. Thanks for your interest! Terri RowenhorstNROC Member Servicesmembership@montereyinstitute.org For project updates, demos, or more, visit: