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San Bernardino Community College District. Glen Kuck, Ed.D. – Executive Director Distributed Education and Technology Services. Background. Community Colleges and Telecourses Concerns with academic rigor Distance Learning Consortium of the Inland Empire
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San Bernardino Community College District Glen Kuck, Ed.D. – Executive Director Distributed Education and Technology Services
Background • Community Colleges and Telecourses • Concerns with academic rigor • Distance Learning Consortium of the Inland Empire • Desire to exclude telecourses from discussions • Value of telecourse content in expanding program offerings and enabling students to experience content
Background • “The Idea” – If we know video-course content is excellent, will enable us to provide quality learning experiences to our learners, but the concern is faculty/student interaction… Why don’t we stream it and make it part of an online course? • Yes, there are other providers already out there, but….
Background • Concerns/Considerations: • Cost to students • Desire to provide access to additional content for faculty and professional development, Economic/Workforce Development, etc. • KVCR going digital!
What resources do we have? • Sungard Higher Education Solutions • Access to expertise and resources • Regional Web Development Center • 24/7 monitoring • Recently Upgraded Infrastructure • SAN (17 Terabytes) • Recently revamped infrastructure • All 3 sites at DS3
What resources do we have? • Grants • Jerry’s Grant • CCCLiveCaptioning Grant • Two Title V Grants • Relationships • Intelecom • Distance Learning Consortium of the Inland Empire • Sungard Higher Education
Where do we start? • Researched, secured, and implemented a scalable infrastructure • Intelecom introduces SBCCD and SCCD • Worked closely with SCCD to explore the best means of digitizing and captioning content
Where are we today? • Established Relationship with SCCD for: • Mirrored sites • Content development and distribution • Captioning • Pursuit of grants • Spring 2007 – Intelecom members will pilot for free video-courses in video-on-demand format • In talks with Dallas Telelearning
VOD Interface Overview • User-friendly interfacefor campus faculty, IT,instructional designers • Videocourses courses listed by series title • Identify list of courses to be offered each term
VOD Interface Overview • Review list of course video files • Take advantage of opportunity to preview course episodes
VOD Interface Overview • Identify episode to embed within online course • Copy and paste HTML tag into online course • Provide campus web server ID for authentication
Where are we today? • Seeking out additional grants/partnerships • Interest from universities and vendors • Positioning ourselves to anticipate new/emerging needs • KVCR – Audio streaming in place, full broadcast streaming on the way… • Videocourses on IPOD and other devices
Where are we today? • Wrapping up construction of Internet2 • Finalizing newly revamped content management system (being developed in partnership with Sungard Higher Education)
Phases • PHASE I: Videocourses – Working with Intelecom and talking with Dallas TeleLearning to make captioned video course content available to any California Community College on demand • PHASE II: Professional Development – Ability to share and centrally store captioned professional development content on demand • PHASE III: Workforce and Economic Development – Ability to share expand scope and reach of not-for-credit courses