CCCS’s Success at Moving CTE Courses to Blended Courses
July 9, 2014
Presented by Brenda Perea
Instructional Design Project Manager
Provide more opportunity for students to complete a certificate or degree
Industry demands
The TAACCCT1 grant required all COETC consortium members courses touched by the grant to be in online or hybrid format
EIC130 National Electrical
Code I
EIC225 Programmable
Controllers
ELT106 Fundamentals of
DC/AC
ELT112 Advanced DC/AC
ENY121 Solar Photovoltaic
Components
PRO120 Process Tech 1-
Equipment 1
PRO130 Instrumentation I
PRO131 Instrumentation II
PRO240 Industrial
Troubleshooting
Hydraulics I
Hydraulics II
Industrial Motors and
Control
Introduction and
Intermediate PLC's
MSHA Supplemental-
Mine Safety and Health
Admin
Mechanical Components
Welding
ENY101 Introduction to Energy
Technologies
GIS101 Introduction to Global
Information Systems
MAN102 Business Ethics
NRE214 Environmental Issues &
Ethics
PET101 Petroleum Fundamentals
PRO120 Process Technology I:
Equipment
PRO130 Petroleum
Fundamentals: Instrumentation
PRO250 Oil and Gas Production I
PSY150 Environmental
Psychology
EIC 101 Job Training and
Safety
EIC 175 Job and Climbing
Safety
ELT 106 Fundamentals of
DC/AC
ELT 107 Industrial
Electronics
IMA 160 Basic Fluid
Power
WTG 100 Introduction to
Wind Industry
WTG 110 Power & Control
Systems
WTG 210 Wind Turbine
Airfoils & Composites
Only 15 out of 122 course had been converted to hybrid format
Due date for all 122 courses to be in hybrid format Dec 2013
We didn’t know what needed to be done before full scale adoption
Asking faculty to commit to a different teaching style
At first, provided no training or resources to provide pedagogy or help for converting courses
There was NO detailed plan to convert a F2F course to hybrid.
Analyzed Certificates and coursesIdentified courses in currently in hybrid status
Selected:
Courses in certificates with high enrollment
F2F courses which could be “flipped”, delivered online, used simulations, and where authentic assessment was needed for certifications
Courses that could be shared between colleges to maximize use of faculty time and reduce duplication of effort.
Created a course development plan with benchmarks and deadlines
1. Faculty Out Reach
2. Course Mapping
3. “Chunking” the content
4. Used competition between colleges as an incentive
5. Publicized the success of grant hybrid courses in “what’s new in hybrid” email blasts
6. Published courses to OER
7. And used public “shaming” within the consortium
*When building the content:
*Create “snack-sized”
appetizers of Content
delivery
*Content
*Challenges and Activities
*Assessments
*Feedback
*Stack the appetizers into
full sized modules
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1. An instructional designer worked onsite and through teleconferences with faculty to convert F2F courses to hybrid
2. Returned to steps 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Plan A
Technology and Time
Quality Assessment-Reluctance to “buy-in” that a hybrid course is as good or better than F2F
Long standing belief that CTE courses are different because of Competency Based testing and industry certification
Evolving Online/Hybrid Pedagogy
Differing LMS’s
Competency-based courses which only used industry
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Detailed Plan
Use of Instructional Designers
Detailed course mapping first to see when and where hybrid design would fit
Central website for easy access to all hybrid courses, www.cccscoetc.weebly.com
Allocating enough time revise F2F content for hybrid delivery
Instructional designers
A specific “hybrid only” message”
Recognition of impact across college departments and across the system
Increased enrollment in certificate courses
Videos:
YouTube, Vimeo or the Internet Archive
Audio/Podcasts:
Soundcloud or the Internet Archive
Presentations:
Slideshare, EverySlide
OPEN Content:
Google Drive
Digital Public Library of America PhET P2PU OpenStax
DOL OER or OPEN information
http://open4us.org/faq/
http://open4us.org/resources/cc-by-license-implementation-
deep-dive-resources/
License Chooser tool
OPEN Courses:
Merlot, Connexions,
MIT OpenCourseWare,
Open Yale Courses,
Harvard Open Learning Initiative,
Open Culture, Coursera, OpenCourseWare
Consortium, MOOC List, edX, OpenCourse Library,
Hybrid Course info:
CCCS InfoGraphic
CCCS How to manual
► Open Educational Resources and Practices
► The Adoption of OER by One Community College Math Department
► OER Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wgqQdYKjIM
http://www.iskme.org/category/tags/oer-research
► http://oer13.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/the-ecology-of-sharing-synthesizing-oer-research-rob-farrow/
► http://www.slideshare.net/robertfarrow/the-ecology-of-sharing-synthesizing-oer-research
► http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1523/2652
► http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/viewArticle/2013-04/html
This Workforce Solution presentation created by Brenda M. Perea of the Colorado Community College System COETC Grant is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. The material was created with funds from the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) Grant awarded to the Colorado Online Energy Training Consortium (COETC).Based on a work at www.cccs.edu.Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.cccs.edu.
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