CBE Orientation

March 2015

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Agenda

• Introductions

• Contact Information

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VTISDkuQsT9vsBe0TCdQR6i3ZJyHQBnRkKuOWB7PmM/edit?usp=sharing

• Next meetings

• Overview of CBE pilot program

• Q & A

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Lumen Orientation

• Wednesday, March 25 1:30 PST

• Next CBE staff meeting:

2:00 Mondays?

Other times better?

All meetings are online

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Competency-Based Program Pilot

• Students must demonstrate mastery of explicit competencies to receive credit

• Students receive constant support based on their individual learning needs

• Learning, not time, is the determining factor

Adapted from Christensen Institute

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Strategic Choices

• Which degree and discipline?

• Where to offer the degree option?

• Which students to target?

• What role(s) do instructors play?

• How does this fit relative to other available degrees and programs?

• How transparent to make the program structure, process, content?

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The Goal

• Competency-based

• Completely online

• Self-paced

• Openly-licensed (OER)

• Six-month term

• Multiple start dates

• FTE tuition ($2667 plus fees)

• Available March 2015

A Business Transfer Degree:

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Pilot Colleges

• Columbia Basin (lead)

• Bellevue

• Centralia

• Everett

• Olympic

• Pierce College Ft. Steilacoom

• Pierce College Puyallup

• Tacoma

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Target Population

Demographic Shifts

• Fewer 15-19 year-olds coming up

• Growth in 20-44 year-olds

Needs & Opportunities

• Nearly 1 million Washingtonians with some college, no degree

Focusing Event: SBCTC Legislative Presentation, Jan. 2014https://app.leg.wa.gov/CMD/Handler.ashx?MethodName=getdocumentcontent&documentId=EDi-X3rydFI&att=false

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The History

• Western Governors University supported colleges in developing CBE certificate programs

Spokane Falls

Edmonds

Columbia Basin

Bellevue

• System work group developed a plan endorsed by WACTC (system presidents) in March 2014

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Getting the Right People, Right Roles

1. Student Profile: Some college or work experience

2. Advisors: “Intrusive” advisors at each college

3. Completion coaches: Encourage progress; remove barriers (hired centrally for pilot)

4. Teaching faculty: Instructors within discipline who teach and assess (hired centrally for pilot)

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Who We Are

• 34 colleges

• Operate as a system

• 160,000+ student FTEs annually

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Why Pilot as a System?

Build on Existing Assets

• Strong transfer agreements

• Shared course system (WAOL)

• Shared LMS (Canvas)

• Common eLearning tools

• Western eTutoringConsortium

• AskWA

Optimize Shared Resources

• Share initial development costs

• Share staffing to support self-paced students

• Centralize hiring, staffing for pilot program

• Students “belong” to college where they enroll

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First Faculty Cohort

• English

• Math

• Accounting

• Economics & Business Law

Full-time Faculty (4)

• Sociology

• Political Science

• Geology

• Biology

• Public Speaking

• Art

Adjunct Faculty (6)

Teaching Faculty Role: • Content

Alignment• Assessment

Design• Instruction• Grading

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Business Transfer Degree: Course List

ENGL 101 English Composition I

ENGL 102 Composition II

MATH 147 Finite Math

MATH 148 Business Calculus

CMST 220 Public Speaking

ENGL 244 American Literature I

ART 100 Art Appreciation

ECON 201 Micro Economics

ECON 202 Macro Economics

SOC 101 Intro to Sociology

POLS 202 American Government

MATH 146 Introduction to Stats

BIOL 100 Survey of Biology

GEOL 101 Intro Physical Geology

ACCT 201 Principles of Accounting I

ACCT 202 Principles of Accounting II

ACCT 203 Principles of Accounting III

BUS 201 Business Law

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CBC CBE Web Page: Prospective Students

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Columbia Basin College CBE Business Program: Student Process Enrolled Student – Business Transfer Major

Meet with advisor to discuss degree

options

Complete CBE Education Plan with advisor if fit is good

Refer to CBE Completion Coach

Take SmarterMeasure

and review Education Plan

Discuss results with Completion Coach

Apply to CBE Program

Student receives CBE Acceptance Letter with first term course list

Registration contact at college receives

course list

Matriculate in CBE Program courses

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CBE Course Development: Continuous Improvement Lifecycle

Course Design

Course Review

InstructionMeasure Results

Recommend Updates

Lumen LearningSystem Faculty Teaching Faculty

Teaching Faculty

Teaching Faculty

SBCTCLumen Learning

SBCTCLumen Learning

Develop CBE pedagogy SBCTC, Lumen

Specify competencies System Faculty

Publish competencies for review SBCTC, Lumen

Select and adapt open content System Faculty, Lumen

Develop summative assessments Teaching Faculty

Build course Lumen

Milestone: Finalize course Teaching Faculty, Lumen

Course Design Process

Enroll students Enrolling Institution

Interact with students Teaching Faculty, Completion Coaches

Keep students on track Teaching Faculty, Completion Coaches

Administer assessments, assign grades Teaching Faculty

Course appears on transcript Enrolling Institution

Capture, analyze learning data SBCTC, Lumen

Milestone: Recommend Updates SBCTC, Lumen

Instructional Process

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Pedagogy

• Mastery learning structure

• Adaptive delivery

• Glue: How to integrate granular knowledge

• Assessing true mastery

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Online interactive with examples of how the subject is used in the “real” world

Diagnostic assessment that adapts study plan to the learner’s level of expertise

Skill that supports the student’s ability to effectively perform the competency

Open Educational Resources mapped to specific outcomes

OER

Formative Assessment

Learning Outcome

OER

Formative Assessment

OER

Formative Assessment

Learning Outcome

Why it Matters

Show What You Know

Performance Assessment

Putting it Together

Competency

Learning Outcome

Automatically graded assessment items that provide learners instant feedback

Detailed description of the performance assessment task along with a worked, annotated example

Human/expert graded authentic assessment that allows student to demonstrate expertise in the competency

Course Building Blocks / Macro-level Design

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Resources

• CBE Pilot Web Site + Repository: http://cbewa.org

• Recommended CBE Resources: Bloom, Benjamin (1984). “The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for

Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring.” Educational Researcher, 13:6 (4-16) http://web.mit.edu/5.95/readings/bloom-two-sigma.pdf

CompetencyWorks http://www.competencyworks.org/

CBEN http://www.cbenetwork.org/competency-based-education/

CAEL http://www.cael.org/what-we-do/competency-based-education

U of Wisconsin: http://flex.wisconsin.edu/

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To-Do List

• Fill out your contact information:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VT

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• Next meeting Wednesday, March 25, 1:30

PST. Invitation to follow

Q&A