Innovation for College Prep

1. Innovation for College Prep Preetha Ram, PhD Cofounder, OpenStudy, Associate Dean, Emory Twitter Preetharam @openstudy Preetha.ram@openstudy.om

2. A Silent Epidemic 1 million high school students drop out each year in the US. Gates Silent Epidemic study

3. Once upon a time Blog.openstudy.com/narratives Meet Sergio, 9th grader, New York Faces math challenges Meets Hero, an OpenStudy user, who helps him regularly. Sergio’s two latest tests >90.

4. Between Failure and Success there is a Human Success Failure

5. The problem of scale >1 million high school dropouts a year >12 million community college Students, only 2 year graduation rates in community colleges around 20%

6. Learning Theories Fuchs, 1997 Lave & Wenger, 1991 Dziuban et al, 2004; Means et al, 2010, Twigg (2003 Bandura, Vygotsky, 1978

8. The OpenStudy Community Unowen: I always come here to ask and end up helping – lol who says math wasn’t addictive?

9. ADDICTIVE: with Game Mechanics An Engaging Student Experience

10. karatechopper: We r F- am- i- ly! An online community could never evolve into becoming a family, @openstudy has proved its possibility. Join the family bit.ly/8slymk Mathhasproblems: Aww, I love you guys  You really care about me <3

12. Getting Help

13. Virality for the Global GoodTake 10 Teach 10

14. Assessment of deeper learning through behavior analytics Study funded by NextGen Learning Challenge, performed in collaboration with Dr. Gloria Miller, SRI

15. Learning Outcomes N=519

16. SmartScore Progression

17. What should be assessed? 2005 Stanford Research Institute & Carnegie Melon Foundation. Survey of 500 CEOs 75% of long-term career success depends on soft skills, while only 25% percent depends on technical knowledge

18. SmartScore Validation “The SmartScore is truly a NextGen Assessment, an innovative and multidimensional analysis based on an understanding of human behavior”. Rahim Rajan, Program Officer, Gates Foundation: “MIT OpenCourseWare's goal is increase the impact of our resources tenfold in our next decade, and building community around our content is a key component of that effort. OpenStudy is a great example of how such communities can be built.  OpenStudy'sSmartScore encourages the teamwork and collaborative problem solving skills that will allow millions of independent learners to teach each other.” - Cecilia d’Oliveria, Executive Director, MIT OCW. “The SmartScoreprovides a unique solution to credentialing soft skills that are not well captured in traditional grades. Their approach combines open social learning and peer learning to empower students from all walks of life to learn and demonstrate important skills that employers greatly value.” - Paul LeBlanc, President of Southern New Hampshire University “OpenStudy’sSmartScore allows job-seekers, mostly community college students, to demonstrate work force skills in lieu of, or as an adjunct to, a certificate or diploma.” - Dean Florez, Fmr. Majority Leader California State Senate Nick DeSantis, Chronicle of Higher Education,http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/3-start-up-announcements-from-the-education-innovation-summit/36086

19. Evidence of Impact 200,000 users >40 Institutions 170 countries >2000 Q/day Answer in <5 min 80% report better understanding.

20. Next Steps “Create opportunities for high school and adult students to earn college credit. … emerging evidence suggests that some form of college experience in high school increases college going, college readiness, and college success among lower-achieving populations as well.” -White House Toolkit

21. New Academic Experiences A Discovery Portal for Open Learning A Learning Help Community for Open Learners Certification for Open Learning New Academic Experiences for high school, college and adult learners

22. How it Works: Learner 1 2 3 Discover Learn Certify Find free college courses on our portal. OpenCourseWare courses from U Notre Dame, UC Irvine etc. Earn a Certificate of Participation. Or take an exam for College Credit Learn with others on OpenStudy. Get support, engage with the community, help others and stay motivated to complete. Learning, engagement and participation is tracked with the SmartScore 95

23. OpenStudy is… “a social platform for learners who want to help each other study” “Mechanical MOOC to rely on free learning sites” “you’re no longer alone—you have the world’s biggest classroom to turn to, any time, anywhere” “global element is important…users will almost always find someone online in the study groups” “one of ten most innovative companies in education”

24. Time to evolve Email: preetha.ram @ openstudy.com Twitter: @preetharam

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27. Certificate of Participation

28. Supporting Great Open Content