Technology’s Role in the College Completion Agenda

1. Technology’s Role in the College Completion Agenda December 3 – EDUCAUSE Live! Ira Fuchs, Executive DirectorNext Generation Learning Challenges

2. Our Partners

4. Undergraduates Not Up To Mark Central Chronicle| November 4, 2010 Skills Gap: Wider Range of Expertise Needed Financial Times | November 4, 2010 More Employers Seek High-Teach Skills Everest Herald | November 5, 2010 Biz-man: We have jobs; workers lack skills Mansfield News Journal| October 27, 2010 Lack of education holding area workers back South Coast Today| November 2010 Searching for Skilled High-Tech Workers National Public Radio| September 2007

5. “Employers indicate that, just as the challenges facing their employees are more complex today than in the past, their expectations of employees have increased. The vast majority… are looking for employees to use a broader set of skills and have higher levels of learning and knowledge than in the past.” - Hart Research Associates, “Raising the Bar: Employer’s Views on College Learning in the Wake of the Economic Downturn,” January 2010.

6. Top Skills • Effective communication (written and oral) 89 percent • Critical thinking 81 percent • 3) The ability to analyze and solve complex problems 75 percent • 4) Teamwork 71 percent • Innovation and creativity 70 percent • The ability to locate, organize, and evaluate information from a variety of sources 68 percent

7. It’s about creating the right workforce.

8. By 2018, it is estimated that jobs requiring some type of postsecondary education will make up 64 percent of the workforce. -- Lumina Foundation for Education By The Numbers

9. Less than half of first-time, full-time students complete their four year degrees within six years. Or two-year degrees within three years. -- National Center for Education Statistics, 2010 By The Numbers

10. In four-year schools, 45 percent of students work more than 20 hours per week. -- “With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them,” Public Agenda By The Numbers

11. It’s about ensuring students make it to the finish line.

12. More than one-third of full-time college and university students need remedial classes. -- Strong American Schools, 2008 By The Numbers

13. It’s about our nation’s vitality and security.

14. It’s about Next Generation Learning Challenges.

15. Questions?

16. About NGLC Our Goal: Dramatically improve college readiness and completion in the United States, especially among low-income adults, through the applied use of technology.

17. NGLC’s Role • Technology focused • Collaboration • Bridging secondaryand postsecondary • Emphasis on scale and adoption John E. Lester Shimgray

18. Program Components Investment Capital Evidence Building Community Engagement

19. Focus on Proven Solutions • Breaking down silos • Moving past “not invented here” • Bringing innovation to more students, more campuses

20. “New media and technology have a critical role to play in the future of education. But regardless of the potential they may show in their audition, new media and technology will get to act only those parts in which we cast them. From my perspective, the only legitimate role for new media and technology in education is to increase our capacity to be generous with one another.” - David Wiley, “Openness as Catalyst for an Educational Reformation,” EDUCAUSE Review

21. Blended Learning • Why blended learning? • Diverse learning styles • Flexibility • Student-centered design • Learning outcomes

22. Blended Learning Charles Dziuban, Joel Hartman, and Patsy Moskal, “Blended Learning,” ECAR Research Bulletin, 2004, http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERB0407.pdf.

23. Learner Analytics • Why analytics? • Access to data • Ability to predict • Potential for intervention and mentoring

24. Learner Analytics Kimberly E. Arnold, “Signals: Applying Academic Analytics,” EDUCAUSE Quarterly 33, no. 1, 2010. http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/SignalsApplyingAc ademicAnalyti/199385.

25. Deeper Learning and Engagement • Why engagement? • Content retention • 21st century skills • Student persistence • Breaking down the technological silos John E. Lester Shimgray

26. Deeper Learning and Engagement Chris Dede, “Immersive Interfaces for Engagement and Learning,” Science 323, no. 5910 (January 2009), 66–69, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5910/66. Ina Hzzzzotshot

27. Open Core Courseware • Why OER? • Reducing redundancy • Empowering faculty • Sharing best practices • Anytime, anywhere

28. Open Core Courseware •  Marsha Lovett, Oded Meyer, and Candace Thille, “The Open Learning Initiative: Measuring the Effectiveness of the OLI Statistics Course in Accelerating Student Learning,” Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2008, http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/publications/71.

29. Questions?

30. Overall Considerations • Gatekeeper Courses • Emphasis on scale and adoption • Target outcomes: • Course completion • Persistence • Mastery of subject matter • Mastery of learning outcomes

31. Wave One Funding • $250,000 for blended learning, deeper learning and engagement, and learner analytics • $750,000 for open core courseware • 32 total awards • More than 600 pre-proposals

33. Additional Waves • Late January: Grades 6-12 • Watch the NGLC site or sign up for updates • Ideas for future waves? Tell us in the forums! • www.nextgenlearning.org/the-community/discuss

34. Fostering Adoption • Proposals must include: • How the model will be shared • Plans for sharing resources and developed technology with CC-BY license • Ideas for “scaffolding materials

35. Building Evidence • Sharing Knowledge: • Research from grantees • Innovations across campuses • Key resources and studies • Case studies

36. Cultivating Community Workshops Discussion Sessions Webinars

37. Get Engaged www.educause.edu/nglc www.nextgenlearning.org

38. Questions? Ira Fuchs (ifuchs@educause.edu) www.nextgenlearning.org