www.lumenlearning.com

When HBCUs Collaborate for Success in

Online Education: The Center for Excellence in Distance Learning at Wiley College

Webinar

March 24, 2014

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Who are we?

Kim Thanos

CEO and co-founder

Lumen Learning

Kim Cliett Long, Ed.D.

Director

Center for Excellence in

Distance Learning at Wiley

College

Hyacinth Burton

Dean, Business and

Adult & Continuing

Education

Oakwood University

Dr. William Hopper

Associate VP Institutional

Effectiveness

Florida Memorial University

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How do we fit together?

The Center for Excellence in Distance Learning at

Wiley College

An HBCU collaborative for effective, open online education programs and practices

Lumen

Learning

Dr. Kim Long,

Director Wiley College

Institutional

Partners

Respective Strengths and Contributions

• Administration and

management

• Strategic planning

• Accreditation

• Faculty recruiting

• Relationships

• Distance learning policy, politics

• OER training, expertise

• Collaborative process

• Open courses, resources

• Faculty support

• Enhancements

• Links to innovation hubs

• Students

• Faculty

• Priorities

• Resources

• Experience

• Expertise

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What is Lumen Learning?

We provide support services for

institutions using open

educational resources (OER)

effectively to:

• Eliminate textbook cost as a

barrier to learning

• Improve student success

• Broaden access to educational

opportunity

we are: • A company, partially owned by

a charitable foundation

• Formed in 2012

• Based in Portland, OR

• Founded through a series of

grant-funded projects

• Educators

• Innovators in OER adoption

• Currently working with 35+

institutions

• Educators

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The Center’s Work to Date

• Educators

Training and Support

• Faculty training in personal online learning

• Training in OER

• Guidance finding and mapping high quality content

• Licensing and attribution

• Instructional design

• Enhancements to improve student success

Collaborative Process

• Identify priorities

• Connect faculty

• Map learning outcomes

• Evaluate open content

• Design courses

• Peer review

• Publish courses and resources

• Teach

• Refine and enhance over time

Outcomes

• Shared repository of courses, resources

• 15+ OER-based courses in high-demand subjects

• Textbook cost savings over 90%

• Enthusiastic faculty

• Grateful students

• Quicker path to degree completion

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Today’s Discussion

• HBCUs and Distance Learning

• Establishing the Center | Wiley College

• Partnering to Expand Capacity | Oakwood University

• Responding to Faculty and Student Demand for Online

Learning | Florida Memorial University

• Supporting the Center’s Success | Lumen Learning

• Q&A

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HBCUs and Distance Learning

• Critical to survive and thrive in the future

• Inherent challenges

Cost to build and establish programs, course

People: Staffing, training, support

Specialized expertise

Administrative, technical and instructional support

Cultural shift for institutions historically focused on

highly personal, face-to-face education experience

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Wiley College’s Experience

• Goal: Build out distance learning programs

• Faculty initially started building courses using open

educational resources (OER) in 2012-2013

• Joined Kaleidoscope Project (grant project

directed by Lumen Learning) for faculty training,

professional development, collaboration

opportunities using OER

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Why create a Center for Excellence?

• We saw huge opportunities for collaboration

among HBCUs

Institutions with similar goals, facing similar challenges

Serve students with similar needs, profile

Strong interest in common set of courses, resources,

online programs

Ability to share faculty, expertise, investment, courses,

resources, experiences, work products

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Establishing the Center

Goals:

Forum for dialogue on distance learning at HBCUs

Network of leaders, practitioners, researchers

Catalyst and clearinghouse for training, research, best

practices, resource sharing, dissemination, innovation

Vision:

Develop a vast catalog of online courses, programs,

resources HBCUs can use to build distance education

programs more efficiently and effectively

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How the Center works

• Identify priorities and areas to collaborate and build on

prior work

• Train designated faculty members to design courses

and teach effectively using OER

• Multi-institution collaboration on course design,

including adapting course for HBCU students, context

• Peer review

• Faculty support for teaching and improving courses

• Collect and disseminate useful educational resources

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Why use Open Educational

Resources (OER)?

• Quality. Increasing volume of high quality OER available to

educators and students

• Cost Savings. Eliminate cost of expensive commercial

textbooks

• Access. Every student has free access to educational

materials from the first day of class

• Flexibility. Ability to add, modify, excerpt, remix and/or

rearrange materials to:

Better align with learning outcomes

Better address students’ learning needs

Incorporate elements that encourage student success

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What have we achieved?

• Three institutions (in conversations with others)

• 40+ online courses offered in Spring 2014

• 30 more under development for Summer 2014

• Courses designed to teach information literacy within the

context of the course subject matter

• Students learning to use technology and information

effectively in a “need to know” world

• Positive feedback from faculty and students

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Oakwood University

• Goals and plans for distance learning

Increase summer offerings

Add winter break offerings

Faculty development and training

Grant writing

Build and sustain capacity for online

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Becoming a Partner

• Decision to join the Center for Excellence

Economies of scale

Meets partnership goal for department

Helps build and sustain capacity

Mentorship

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Our Approach

• Initial steps we have taken and recommend

Obtain President’s and upper management buy-in

Form online committee with key university staff personnel

Create budget for online development

SACS or regional accrediting body approval

Faculty buy-in

Work with Center for Excellence for mentorship

Work with Lumen Learning for course development (faculty)

Ongoing training and development for faculty

Continuous improvement

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Progress to Date

• Organizational Management SACS online approval

• Pilot four traditional courses – spring 2014

• Over twenty scheduled summer online courses

• Purchase SmartEval for course and instructor evaluations

• Purchase Respondus Monitoring for test taking

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What value are we seeing?

• The Center provides

Collaboration

Mentorship

Grant-writing opportunities

Economies of scale

Great working relationship

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Florida Memorial University

• Goals and plans for distance learning

Respond to demands from faculty and students

Identify needed resources

Comply with accreditation requirements

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Stepping Up to Meet Demand

• Respond to demands from faculty and students

Hybrid, web-enhanced, and flipped classes are already in use and

are very popular

Several faculty are already teaching on-line at other institutions as

adjuncts

Increasing number of students asking about on-line courses and

programs

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Addressing Resource Needs

• Identify needed resources

Course design is very expensive

Improvements to existing infrastructure were not a high

priority

Center provides both incentive and opportunity

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Accreditation Compliance

• Comply with accreditation requirements

Changes in mode of course delivery require approval

Additional means of student support services are needed

Avoid triggering a substantive change before the institution is fully

ready

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Progress and Plans

• Trial period – Summer B 2014

Offer 10-12 courses on-line, primarily from the Liberal

Arts Core Curriculum

Target specific groups of students, especially first-time

freshmen

Assess and review at the end to recommend for the next

academic year

Include expansion of courses and programs in Strategic

Plan under development, including substantive change

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Supporting the Center’s Success

Lumen Learning Role:

• Training

• Faculty professional

development

• Assistance finding and

curating open content

• Facilitate aligning course content with learning outcomes

• Design, review, improvement of OER-based courses

• Maintain current licensing and attribution

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New Online Courses: Spring 2014

Oakwood University Wiley College

Microcomputer Apps Principles of Psychology Freshman Comp II Macroeconomics

Intro to Computing Principles of Psychology Intro to Sociology Survey of Math College Algebra US History I US History II Speech Communication

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New Online Courses: Summer 2014

Oakwood U. Wiley College Florida Memorial

U. Freshman Comp II

Microcomputer Apps

US History I

Music Appreciation

Fund Concepts Math

Life Science

Principles of Marketing

Principles of Psychology

Microeconomics

Macroeconomics

Chemistry in Society

Begin Spanish I

Begin Spanish II

Calculus

Applied Calculus

World Civilization I

Health Principles

Principles of Management

Principles of Accounting I

Principles of Accounting II

Principles of Finance

Physical Science

Human Resource

Management

Freshman Comp I

Freshman Comp II

Intro to Computing

Speech Communication

US History I

US History II

Principles of Marketing

Principles of Economics I

Principles of Economics II

General Psychology

Survey of Math

College Algebra

Intro to Sociology

Pre-Calculus I

Pre-Calculus II

Business Ethics

Computer App Business

Management Info Systems

Criminal Investigation & Evid

Criminal Law

Criminal Justice Ethics & Prof

Educational Psychology

Human Growth & Development

Children’s Literature

Technology in Education

The Exceptional Learner

World Literature I

World Literature II

African-American Literature

Elementary French I

Elementary French II

Humanities

History of Western Philosophy

Ethics & Politics Afr-Amer Cmty

Personality Theory & Adjustmt

Survey of Religion & Philosophy

World Religions

Christian Leadership

Database System Management

Introduction to Criminal Justice

Introduction to Corrections

Juvenile Justice System

Organizational Behavior

Organizational Leadership

History & Principles of Phys Ed

Health Education

Recreation Leadership

College Writing I

College Writing II

Intro to Public Speaking

Music Appreciation

Essentials of College Math

Intermediate Algebra

College Algebra

Biological Science

Earth Science

Introduction to Statistics

Essentials of College Writing

Art Appreciation

Red: Offered across all

partners

Blue: Offered by multiple

partners

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We Invite You to Learn More

To learn more about the Center for Excellence in Distance

Learning at Wiley College and how it might help you

achieve your online education goals, contact:

• Kim Long (klong@wileyc.edu or office: 903-923-1622 /

mobile: 903-578-0199)

• Kim Thanos (kim@lumenlearning.com or 503-816-4721)

Website: http://cexdl.org/

www.lumenlearning.com

Q&A

Thank you!