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If They Build it, Will You Come? Utilizing 3 rd Party Content

If They Build it, Will You Come? Utilizing 3 rd Party Content. Terri Rowenhorst Partner Development: National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) Monterey Institute for Technology and Education Lisa Cheney-Steen Co-Executive Director for Learning Technology

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If They Build it, Will You Come? Utilizing 3 rd Party Content

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  1. If They Build it, Will You Come? Utilizing 3rd Party Content Terri Rowenhorst Partner Development: National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) Monterey Institute for Technology and Education Lisa Cheney-Steen Co-Executive Director for Learning Technology Colorado Community College System

  2. Graphics Text Documents Interactive Exercise Documentary Video Newsreel What is a 3rd Party Learning Object? WW II Example NROC History Demo

  3. Advanced or Remedial Study Instructor Presentation Offered Course Why Learning Objects?Customization and Reassembly NROC Course

  4. Faculty Perspectives: Why Use 3rd Party Content? • High-quality and diverse usually beyond the means of institutions • Multi-modal learning experiences • Allows instructor to focus on designing the learning experience • Saves time and money • You wouldn’t write a textbook would you?

  5. Research on Faculty Perspectives: How Faculty Prepare Online Courses (from Bob Threlkeld’s Conversations with the Field) • Similar to Classroom Instruction • Textbook is still the backbone of most courses • Faculty as Artist • Satisfaction and Success: 3 C’s • Convenience • Clarity • Communication • What about Content?

  6. Faculty Perspectives:Evaluating 3rd Party Content To achieve course learning outcomes • What content adds value? • Multi-modal or media-rich • Activities, assignments, assessments utilizing CMS • Simulations and interactivity • And is appropriate? • Bandwidth and Accessibility • Support and Reliability • Design and Usability • Rights of Use and Costs

  7. Sources of 3rd Party Content • Commercial • Print publishers (ePaks and Course Cartridges) • Course vendors (Thinkwell) • Supplement providers (WebAssign) • Non-Profit & Open Educational Resources (OER) • Course Developers (Telecourse providers) • Repositories (Wisc-Online) • Referatories (Merlot) • OERs (NROC, OCW, SOFIA) • Institutions/Communities of Practice • Local Initiatives (Maricopa Learning Exchange, Orange Grove)

  8. Just do it!Examples of NROC Objects in Courses • American Government at SPC (ANGEL) • American Government at ICCOC (ECollege) • US History at CSTC (WebCT CE) • Environmental Science at CCCO (WebCT Vista)

  9. Just Do it!Central Repositories • History in The Orange Grove • Florida Statewide Initiative • Equella Software from Learning Edge • Physics in the MODE Repository • MNSCU System-wide Initiative • D2L Repository Software

  10. Just Do it!Contribute through Social Authoring • CCCOnline Digital Textbook Project • UT TeleCampus Course Redesign • NROC Network • Non-majors Biology • General Psychology • Elementary Algebra

  11. ContinuousImprovement: Evaluating Effectiveness • Student Engagement Levels and Performance • Learning Outcomes and Achievement • Using CMS Tools • Networking and Sharing in Communities • Feedback loop with the developer • Course evaluation tools like OCEP or cEval

  12. Start Here!www.nrocnetwork.org • Join the Network: Faculty, Administrators, Instructional Technologists • Participate in Social Authoring • Results shared with students at OER site: www.hippocampus.org • Additional benefits for supporting institutional members

  13. Access this Presentation atThe NROC Network Commonshttp://www.nrocnetwork.org/nroc_commons?go=1537148 Contact Information: Lisa.Cheney-Steen@cccs.edu 303-595-1675 trowenhorst@montereyinstitute.org 719-783-0804

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