Kaleidoscope Approach 2013

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Kaleidoscope 2011-2013 Approach 8 November 2013Park City, UT

Ronda NeugebauerFaculty Success Lead, Lumen Learning


Agenda

• Kaleidoscope history and goals• Participant roles• Course development support• Successes and challenges with panel

Kim Thanos, M.B.A.

David Wiley, Ph.D.

NGLC grants target specific challenges that address barriers to educational success.

NGLC strives to dramatically improve college readiness and completion, particularly for low-income students and students of color, by identifying promising technology solutions.

http://nextgenlearning.org/nglc-overview


Use open educational resources (OER) to improve the success of at-risk students at multi-

institutional scale

Kaleidoscope: Goal

http://oli.cmu.edu/


Kaleidoscope Approach

• Develop open course designs• Delivered via multiple learning

environments • Create full set of open materials for

every outcome• Implement sound instructional design• Support architecture of attribution• Continuously improve using analytics


Kaleidoscope 2011-2012

Results• Reduced cost of required textbooks

to $0 by replacing with OER• Improved average student success

rates 10%+ compared to student performance in same courses by same instructors in previous years

• Impacted 9,000+ students

2011 Course Developers ~ 10 Courses

2013 Course Developers ~ 20+ Courses


2011 Discipline Teams

English Comp IGeographyBiologyBusinessAlgebraPsychologyDevelopmental ReadingDevelopmental Writing


2013 Discipline Teams

AccountingArtChemistryEarth ScienceEconomicsEduc: Intro TeachingEnglish Comp IIInfo Systems

Marketing*MathMusicOnline LearningPoli Sci/US GovtSociologySpeechUS History

*June 2013 Workshop


Defining the Roles: Faculty

Collaborative Course Developer• Serve as SME – Subject Matter Expert• Collaborate in course development• Identify content and assessments• Align outcomes, content, and

assessments• Identify and fill gaps in OER• Supplement existing content if

necessary• Any original content licensed CCBY


Defining the Roles: Faculty

Course Adopter• Teach sections of course• Offer feedback


Defining the Roles: Lumen

• Support faculty in collaboration• Build and attribute courses• Ensure accessibility• Report project results to NGLC• Provide content analytics• Incorporate feedback for continuous

course improvement


Course Development Support

Professional development• Mining and vetting OER• Identify and fill gaps in content• 4Rs: reuse, revise, remix, redistributeOpen Course Design• Customization• Consistency• Accessibility compliance

Faculty Panel

Elizabeth Ellington ~ English Composition

Amber Gilewski ~ PsychologyCrystal LoVetere ~ Geography

Wendy Riggs ~ BiologyZack Varpness ~ Chemistry

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