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Academic Technology in the CSU: Riding through the Imperfect Storm

Academic Technology in the CSU: Riding through the Imperfect Storm. Gerry Hanley Senior Director, Academic Technology Services Executive Director, MERLOT Director, Center for Usability in Design & Accessibility. Will it be worth your time?.

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Academic Technology in the CSU: Riding through the Imperfect Storm

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  1. Academic Technology in the CSU: Riding through the Imperfect Storm Gerry Hanley Senior Director, Academic Technology Services Executive Director, MERLOT Director, Center for Usability in Design & Accessibility

  2. Will it be worth your time? • CSU strategic priorities for Academic Technology – as defined by the CSU Board of Trustees • Graduation Initiative + Close the Achievement Gap • Early Start • Affordable Learning Solutions • Online Education • How do we navigate to these goals in such rough seas? • Questions for the Collective of Expertise • Questions for Gerry

  3. Riding the waves of CSU priorities • Why are the priorities of the CSU Board of Trustees important? • The Chancellor and Presidents are guided by these priorities as well as the campus leaders • Resource allocation, including budget and staffing, are guided by these priorities • Connecting your work to these priorities help your efforts and outcomes be understood in a strategic context • We are buffeted by waves on technology innovations and user demands. These priorities help us chart our course and leverage the size of the system

  4. Graduation Initiative • Goals: By June 2016, • Raise the six-year graduation rates of CSU student to the top quartile of national averages on each campus; and • Cut in half the existing achievement gap between underrepresented CSU students and non-underrepresented CSU students • Strategies: Campus teams established to • Develop action plans • Continuously measure progress to targets • Regular report on actions and effects • http://www.calstate.edu/PA/News/2010/documents/bot-grad-%20initiative-update.pdf

  5. What Are Your Campuses Doing to Improve Grad Rates? • Each Campus has an initial action plan and will be continuously improving it – here’s some examples • Learning Communities • First Year Experience Programs • Early Start and Summer Bridge Programs • Degree Audit and Early Warning Advising • Roadmaps to Graduation • Underlying many of these programs are the need for students to become both socially and academic connected to the university community (faculty, staff, and fellow students) in timely, student–centered, and reliable ways.

  6. What Can We Do To Help Improve Grad Rates • Social networking tools, learning management services and mobile technologies can engage, advise, and sustain students’ needs in instruction, academic planning, and student services. • How can you support your Campus Team’s plan? • Find out who’s on the team and talk with them about the best ways to participate • QUESTIONS? • What do you think you can do? • Let’s go to the Chat and brainstorm

  7. Early Start • Goal: • All incoming students deficient in English and mathematics, are required to BEGIN making up those deficiencies BEFORE matriculation • It DOES NOT mean they will denied admission if they have not completed resolving the deficiency. • Strategies: Campus teams • Develop plans in partnership with faculty in English and mathematics. • Submit plans in October 2010. • Begin implementing plans on or before 2012, with full implementation on or before summer 2014. • http://www.calstate.edu/bot/agendas/Mar10/EDPOL-Early-Start-PowerPoint.pdf

  8. Connecting EAP and Early Start Early Assessment Program (EAP) has significant momentum – see CSU Math and English Success Sites http://www.csumathsuccess.org Early Start will leverage the local and systemwide EAP efforts

  9. What Can We Do To Help Early Start? • As soon as students are admitted to a campus, get students connected with social networking tools, learning management services and mobile technologies and engage, advise, and sustain students’ needs in instruction, academic planning, and student services in Math and English • How can you support your Campus Team’s plan? • Find out who’s on the team and talk with them about the best ways to participate • QUESTIONS? • What do you think you can do? • Let’s go to the Chat and brainstorm

  10. Textbook Affordability and Student Success 2008 California Bureau of State Auditor Report indicates that CSU students are paying $812 per year for textbooks. • Students don’t buy all their required resources for learning • Students stop out, drop out, don’t perform to their academic potential, graduate at a slower rate. Affordability Affects Access to Excellence The CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions Campaign will deploy a multi-pronged approach to ease the financial burden for students.

  11. Growing Availability of No and Low Cost Alternatives to New Textbooks • Open Educational Resources: (OER) are FREE online instructional materials that faculty can use to construct the curriculum for their courses. • Open Textbooks: FREE online materials that are formatted like eBooks. • CSU Library Resources: Campus and systemwide electronic collections provides students FREE access to extensive resources • Lower Cost Proprietary Content in both electronic and hard copy formats.

  12. One Stop Shopping for Faculty, Staff, and Students http://als.csuprojects.org

  13. Accelerating Adoption of Affordable Learning Solutions • Developing custom campus campaigns that build on existing priorities and organizational services • Provide systemwide services for discovering, organizing, adopting, authoring and sharing no and low-cost content • Celebrate exemplary practices by CSU faculty that already exist and support more faculty innovations

  14. DRAFT Document, Property of the California State University

  15. Faculty Sharing Practices

  16. Sustainable Strategy • Leveraging 10+ years of CSU expertise in MERLOT, Systemwide Library Services, and the Digital Marketplace • Leveraging Industry Partners who are looking for sustainable business strategies in the digital world. Coordinating the transformation of Higher Education and industry practices helps manage everyone’s risks • Prospective revenue from CSU’s strategic services

  17. Next Steps • Spring 2010: Work with a number of campuses to plan and pilot test campaign strategies and services • Fall 2010: Launch field-tested campaign strategies and services that will enable every CSU campus to customize their Affordable Learning Solutions Campaign in ways that will optimize their success

  18. What Can We Do To Help Affordable Learning Solutions? • Disseminate information about ALS and build into faculty development and training • Integrate of MERLOT and Digital Library services into your LMS and student portals • Work with your provost, deans, department chairs, librarians, bookstore, faculty development/teaching learning centers, and associated students to develop your own ALS custom campaign • QUESTIONS? • What do you think you can do? • Let’s go to the Chat and brainstorm

  19. Online Education • Goals: • Currently campus-based programs • Being discussed by Technology Steering Committee and Academic Technology Steering Committee in process of developing a systemwide initiative • Framework of dependencies: • Principles guide goals and strategies • Goals drive strategies • http://www.calstate.edu/bot/agendas/mar09/EdPol.pdf (It’s toward the end of the long document)

  20. Framework for Online Education

  21. ATSC identified four different goals for online education • Masters and credential programs • Undergraduate degree completion programs • Undergraduate fully online programs that provide access to underserved populations in strategic disciplines • Online remediation programs (especially in Math)

  22. What Can We Do To Help Online Education? • Work within your campus community and contribute to the development of “use cases” – stories describing the interconnectedness of the various academic, technological, business, and student services – that will enable plans for online education to better connect to strategic outcomes • QUESTIONS? • What do you think you can do? • Let’s go to the Chat and brainstorm

  23. Final Comments • Communication is key for us all to plan and commit ourselves to improving the learning of our students and supporting the teaching of our faculty • Stay connected with the messages from the Chancellor’s Office as well as your campus on these priorities – CATS services can be an effective and efficient vehicle for this purpose • There are other priorities besides the Board of Trustees priorities (e.g. LMS). These are important too

  24. THANK YOU For inviting me, listening and participating www.calstate.edu

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