CBE Business DTA Pilot

1. CBE Business DTA Pilot October 2014

2. Competency-Based Program • 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)

3. The Goal • A Business Transfer Degree • Competency based • Completely online • Openly licensed • Six-month term with multiple start dates • Full time equivalent tuition ($2667 plus fees) • Students work at their own pace, completing as many credits as they are able during each term • Available January 2015

4. Pilot Colleges • Columbia Basin—lead • Bellevue • Centralia • Everett • Green River • Olympic • Pierce Colleges (2) • Tacoma

5. Why? • Reduced population growth in 15-19 year olds in the next 10 years • Increased growth in 20-44 year olds • Almost 1 million Washingtonians have some college, no degree SBCTC Legislative Presentation, Jan. 2014 https://app.leg.wa.gov/CMD/Handler.ashx?MethodName=getdocumentcontent&documentId=EDi-X3rydFI&att=false

6. 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) March 2014

7. The Elements • Students with some college or work experience • “Intrusive” advisors at each college • Completion coaches • Hired by Columbia Basin for the pilot consortium) • Disciplinary faculty who teach and assess • Hired by Columbia Basin for the pilot consortium

8. First Faculty Cohort • Four full-time faculty • English • Math • Accounting • Economics and Business Law

9. First Faculty Cohort • Six adjunct faculty • Sociology • Political Science • Geology • Biology • Public Speaking • Art

10. 18 Courses • Work group chose high-enrollment courses that meet the distribution requirements • Courses will be transcribed as regular credits and use open content • Curriculum and competencies will be mapped by system faculty

11. Lumen Learning • Leaders in open educational resources and in CBE • Worked with system colleges in the past • Building openly licensed courses and adaptive assessments • http://lumenlearning.com

12. System Assets • Strong transfer agreements • Shared course system (WAOL) • Shared learning management system (Canvas) • Common elearning tools • Western eTutoring Consortium • AskWA

13. Student Experience • Application process • Orientation • Completion coach • Faculty engagement • Adaptive testing • Authentic assessment • Grades: A, B, and Incomplete

14. Why pilot as a system? • Share initial development costs • Share staffing to support students who work at their own pace • Students belong to the college where they enroll • All faculty for the pilot will be hired at Columbia Basin College

15. Resources on CBE • 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) • 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/

16. Find Out More • Blog: http://cbewa.org • Listserv: http://lists.ctc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbe

17. Questions? Connie Broughton cbroughton@sbctc.edu Cathy Clary cclary@columbiabasin.edu