CBE Business DTA Pilot

--orientation and marketing

October 27, 2014

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)

The Goal

• A Business Transfer Degree– Competency based

– Completely online

– Openly licensed (CC BY)

– 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

Pilot Colleges

• Columbia Basin—lead

• Bellevue

• Centralia

• Everett

• Green River

• Olympic

• Pierce Colleges (2)

• Tacoma

2015 Terms

• January to June

• February to June

• March to June

_____________________

• July to December

• August to December

• September to December

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

18 Courses

• System 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

Business DTA

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)

ACCTt&202 (Principles of

Accounting II)

ACCT& 203 (Principles of

Accounting III)

BUS& 201 (Business Law )

Lumen Learning

• Leaders in open educational resources

and in CBE

• Helping to build openly licensed courses

and adaptive assessments

• Student cost for course materials = $0

For adaptive assessments = $40 per

student per term

• http://lumenlearning.com

Curriculum Development

• System faculty will specify the

competencies for each course, with

process facilitation from Lumen

Learning

• The competencies will match the

expected content of the existing transfer

course, and the course will appear on

the student’s transcript as the regular

five-credit course

Final Assessments

• Include all competencies identified for

the course

• Are project or performance-based

• Administered when student is ready

• Student grades = A (4.0) or B (3.0)

• Other grades per college policies

(Incomplete, Failure, etc.)

Student Completion

• Students will have a competency

dashboard for each course that shows

the required competencies and the

student’s progress toward each one

• The teaching faculty and completion

coaches will work together to assist

students to keep them on track to

completion

Faculty Job Announcements

• Columbia Basin is hiring four full-time

and six adjunct faculty for the pilot year

• January through December 2015

• Special faculty contracts

• First consideration closes November 12

• http://agency.governmentjobs.com/colu

mbiabasin/default.cfm

First Faculty Cohort

• Four full-time faculty

– English

– Math

– Accounting

– Economics and Business Law

First Faculty Cohort

• Six adjunct faculty

– Sociology

– Political Science

– Geology

– Biology

– Public Speaking

– Art

Faculty responsibilities

• Complete course development

• Interact with students

• Design, deliver and grade final

assessments

• Work with completion coach to help

students succeed

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/

Student Orientation to Program

Prospective Student & Accepted Student

The next slides will be about the following:

• CBE Pilot Marketing

• CBC CBE Business Web page

• Flow chart for Student Process of applying to

program

• Orientation Course (once accepted in to

program)

CBE Marketing

• Pilot colleges market to their own

students.

– Content developed by pilot colleges and

SBCTC

• No central web site or marketing for

students at this time.

• Materials will be posted at

http://cbewa.org

CBE Messaging

• What is competency-based

education?– Competency based education means you learn at

your own pace. If you’ve already mastered a

subject, you can test out and get credit for the

class. If you need to spend more time on

something else, you can do that, too. It’s not about

spending time in class – it’s about learning and

understanding what you need to know.

CBE Messaging

• Will my diploma look any different

than if I had taken traditional

classes?

– No. Your diploma and transcript will look

just like the ones students in traditional

classes get. This college already offers the

business transfer degree, so four-year

universities will accept this degree just like

any other transfer degree.

CBC CBE Web Page---Prospective Students

Columbia Basin College CBE Business Program: Student

Process Enrolled Student – Business Transfer Major

Student Orientation Course• Offered in Canvas (completely online)

• Student Handbook

• How to Navigate Canvas, adaptive testing, eLearning

tools e.g. Panopto, Collaborate, e-Tutoring, etc.

• Technology skills (file management, etc.)

• How to work with faculty and completion coach

• Modules: Time Management, Goal-setting,

Information Literacy

Find Out More

• Blog: http://cbewa.org

• Listserv:

http://lists.ctc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbe

• Job announcements:

http://agency.governmentjobs.com/colu

mbiabasin/default.cfm

Questions?

Connie Broughton

cbroughton@sbctc.edu

Cathy Clary

cclary@columbiabasin.edu