Online Tutorials AQIP Presentation January, 2007 Achieving the Dream for Student Success:

1. Online Tutorials AQIP Presentation January, 2007 Achieving the Dream for Student Success: A grass roots effort

2. Value Educational Access • And Student Success • Integrate technology to support the strategic direction of the college, and create a holistic environment for learning by: • Providing 24/7 online tutoring resources • Quickly and easily tailoring tutoring resources to meet student and faculty needs

3. Value People • Support faculty growth opportunities to enhance the learning process by: • Providing relevant examples of “online learning objects” • Providing software which expands teaching options for classroom and online instruction • Providing an opportunity for faculty to easily develop, share and archive important multi-media presentations

4. Value Partnerships • Expand curriculum working with local health care providers and with the local and regional energy industry by: • Creating an online model upon which industry training can be based

5. What are Online Tutorials? These are web-based learning modules that students complete on their own time, either on campus or from home.

6. The vision for tutorials • Online tutorials are designed to teach straight-forward processes and concepts which take advantage of repetition • They utilize audio, text, graphics, photographs and symbols. They are multi-media • They are interactive, utilizing quizzes and directional prompts. • They are easily accessible.

7. They are continually evolving, easily updated, works in progress • Online Tutorials are used tosupplement instruction and person-to-person synchronous tutoring, not replace them. They reinforce and repeat what students learn directly from faculty, tutors or textbooks. • Can include access for students with limited sensory abilities. Since the tutorials include audio and visual, they can be used by blind and deaf students. • Can be used as “Learning Objects” in courses

8. Completed Tutorials • MATH • Adding and subtracting decimals • Dividing decimals • Multiplying decimals • Divisibility rules • Finding the percent, base & amount • Greatest common factor • Properties of numbers • Lowest Common Multiples • Order of Operations  • Subtracting Fractions • Adding Fractions • Dividing Fractions • Multiplying Fractions • Introduction to Scientific Calculators • ONLINE EDUCATION • A guide to conducting research online • Is online education right for you? • An introduction to WebCT • WRITTEN COMMUNICATION • A guide to conducting research online • A guide to critical thinking • Formatting a documentation list in Microsoft Word • Using spacing in Microsoft Word • Verb tenses • Avoiding Plagiarism 

9. Completed Tutorials Learning Skills A guide to taking notes in class A guide to asking questions in class A guide to critical thinking Accounting Calculating depreciation A guide to debits, credits and contra accounts College Information and Processes What is the Accuplacer (and why should I care?) Important concepts for new students at San Juan College Intro to SJC Library

10. Let’s take a look… How to Take Notes Tutorial What is the Accuplacer? Second Degree Polynomial Simulation

11. Distribution • Tutorial Locations • Some tutorials available on public webpage • All tutorials available on student portal • All tutorials available on employee portal / intranet • Faculty encouraged to link tutorials to WebCT • Tutorials Marketing • Presentations made to faculty regarding tutorials during convocation • Emails to faculty regarding tutorials • Presentations to academic advisors

12. Where are we going next? • Develop more online simulations for concepts with complex variables • Collect data from students and faculty regarding usage and effectiveness, and include that data in future planning. • Continue developing new tutorials in the following areas: • Content areas • Study Skills • College Information and Processes

13. Where are we going next? • Continue developing tutorials, including: • Academic Degrees in Higher Ed • Advanced online database research • Anxiety for Adults returning to college • AQIP Process • Enrolling in and dropping a class • English as a Second Language • Learning styles • Listening and Communicating • Preparing for Nursing Boards • Studying for Standardized tests • Stress Management • Virtual Tours of SSC

14. DIVIDENDS An expanding library of learning online tutorials Number of tutorials currently available online (as of January, 2007): 33 (an additional 30 are planned by May 2007) Number of times tutorials have been accessed since August, 2006 302 Written Communication 371 Math Skills 95 Accounting 301 Learning Skills 85 Online Education 195 Other 1,349 TOTAL

15. DIVIDENDS Technology adoption college-wide, and a growing understanding of learning objects Number of faculty and staff members with active Breeze accounts: 17 Number of learning objects created since March 2006: 484

16. “Tell me and I will forget Show me and I may remember Involve me and I will understand” - Confucius