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November 11, 2011
November 11, 2011
Presentation Outline• Section I
– What do you think about when you hear AcademyOne?
– How is AcademyOne reshaping Higher Education with Technology?
• Section II– Why Bridge Academic
Partnerships?• Section III
– What does Cloud Computing Mean?
– What are the Benefits of Migrating to the Cloud?
• Section IV– The Ivy Bridge College
Challenge– How IBC TRAC Assists
Students – Phase I• Section V
– The Success Coach Challenge
– How IBC TRAC Assists Success Coaches – Phase I
– IBC TRAC Analysis• Section VI
– IBC TRAC Enhancements – Phase II
• Questions/Discussion
The Origin of the Name ‘AcademyOne’
The term 'Academy' is often used to describe education as a whole. Adding the 'One' to the term 'Academy' implies a shared and managed enterprise designed to support the education pipeline connecting, collaborating, sharing and facilitating pathways to knowledge and credentials.
How is AcademyOne Reshaping Higher Education
with Technology?AcademyOne is Leveraging the Internet to Enable New Forms of Academic Collaboration
Why Bridge Academic Partnerships?
The 21st century learners are crossing traditional institutional boundaries, academic policies and practices in unprecedented numbers. Do you employ smart student systems enabled to handle learner transitions across degree pathways? AcademyOne automates bridges between institutions and government data systems to support learner centric solutions by enabling improved guidance, advising, assessment and enrollment to transfer pathways. We make student systems smarter.
What does Cloud Computing Mean?
Generally, it means automation services are moving to shared platforms, which are enabled by virtualized servers that can scale on-demand and serve our computer devices. It also means lower the cost of computing, pay for use and not for the extra capacity you may never need. AcademyOne is working with leading higher education institutions and stakeholders on a variety of initiatives focused on creating, deploying, leveraging and growing a base of cloud services.
Higher Education Cloud Computing?
What are the Benefits of Migrating to the Cloud?
Cloud services offer institutions, faculty, students and administrators more computing power and functionality at the time they need to reduce costs and find ways to maximize resources to improve capacity and degree completion.
Cloud computing offers scalability and lowers the cost of sustainability. The best thing about reducing the footprint of on-premise systems is reducing the responsibility to manage servers and applications. It allows organizations to focus energies on core competencies.
The Ivy Bridge College (IBC) ChallengeThe Ivy Bridge challenge is providing a diverse and growing
population of prospective and enrolled students improved guidance on how best to finish college with less friction, time to degree and costs layered by many complications.
Can IBC scale and achieve greater success in mission while serving more constituents with superior service and earn greater outcomes for both learner and institution?
IBC believes by improving the means to self-navigate the opportunities and choices offered by IBC and partner institutions greater outcomes are offered for both learner and institution.
How IBC TRAC AssistsStudents - (Phase I)
The self-service web portal is designed to:– Inform students about the different IvyBridge
Partner Colleges and steps to consider while working with a Success Coach.
– Match students with bachelor’s degree opportunities at one of its many Partner Colleges across the nation.
– Provide exceptional academic advising and guidance services using the custom portal.
Students Can View IBC Partner Colleges
Interactive map
2+2 Partnerand
State & International
Search Partner College ProfilesSearch by College Name,
Location, Program keyword and more.
View Partner College ProfilesIndividual Profile Side-by-side Profile Comparison
What type of Student am I?
Students are encouraged to use the scenarios to assist in jump starting their path at Ivy Bridge:
• I don't know my college or my major• I know my college, but not my major• I know my major and my college• I know my major
The Success Coach ChallengeHow can IvyBridge provide a central repository of information to each Success Coach when the information can change at anytime?
Each Success Coach:• Is assigned to every student once scheduled for classes.• Meets with students on a weekly basis mostly by phone but
also connect via IM, email, and Facebook.• Meets with students for 25 to 30 minutes on average.• Can be contacted by their students outside of scheduled times
and multiple times per week.• Tailors scheduled student appointments according to the
student’s specific needs.• Focuses on a range of topics related to the students’ college
experience and what they are looking for to continue at a Partner College.
How IBC TRAC AssistsSuccess Coaches
Coaching and advising students in selecting the right Bachelor’s degree program can be a complex yet rewarding process. The tools available on the IBC TRAC portal for each Success Coaches include:
• Coaching tips on the different student scenarios.• Students Without a Major and Transfer Institution.• Advising Students With a Transfer Institution.• Advising Students with a Major and a Transfer
Institution.• Students With a Major.• Ability to view transfer agreements to the Partner
Colleges.• 2+2 Degree Completion Programs.
Students Contacting Ivy Bridge
Contact information is available to all site visitors that are:• Applying to IvyBridge
College of Tiffin University.
• Looking to contact their Success Coach .
• Need technical assistance with the IBC TRAC site.
What Type of Student am I Helping?
Coaching tips on the different student scenarios:• Students Without a
Major and Transfer Institution.• Advising Students With
a Transfer Institution.• Advising Students with
a Major and a Transfer Institution.• Students With a Major.
View Transfer AgreementsIBC TRAC provides Success Coaches with access to the numerous Transfer Agreements that IvyBridge has with their Partner Colleges. General information about each Transfer Agreement is displayed on the page and success coaches also have the ability to download the document when advising a student.
2+2 Degree Completion ProgramsSuccess Coaches have access to the side-by-side information
regarding the 2+2 Degree Completion Programs that offer students a streamlined pathway to seamlessly transition to complete their Bachelor's degree with the partner institution. Advantages of the 2+2 programs include: • Apply once to two institutions: Go through the application process once
to attend two institutions.• Unmatched student services: Receive ongoing mentoring and support
from an Ivy Bridge Success Coach for their first academic term at their transfer institution.
• Flexibility and convenience: Students will take online classes through their entire experience, which makes balancing coursework and busy lives less demanding.
• High quality degrees: Upon completion of the four-year program, students will have earned their Ivy Bridge Associate’s degree and a Bachelor's degree from the partner institution.
• Guided academic pathways: Students will be seamlessly guided from our associate program directly into the partner's Bachelor's program by expert advisors, which means no redundancy in credits and all of their classwork transfers..
2+2 Degree Completion Programs
IBC TRAC Analytics(January 1, 2011 – October 15, 2011)
• Over 3,400 visits have been tracked to the site by 2,054 individuals.
• Over 14,000 page views were made • The average user spends 3:24 on the site and views 4.11 pages• Nearly 60% of all visitors are new
Ivy Bridge Enhancements(Phase II)
The next phase of the IBC TRAC portal brings enhancements that both Success Coaches and IBC Students will benefit from.Phase II will:• Allow students to search Partner Colleges by modality based on
whether the college offers courses online, face-to-face, or hybrid.• Provide IBC Administrators the means to provide Articulation
Summary information to both Success Coaches and Students.– Success Coaches will have a Summary view by Transfer
Partner.– Students will have Summary information available at the
bottom of each Partner College Profile.• Provide IBC Administrators the ability to add multiple key contacts
per Partner College.
Ivy Bridge Enhancements – Cont’d
(Phase II)Phase II will:• Provide IBC Administrators the ability to add attachments to
the Partner Colleges for Success Coach use.• Provide links on Partner College Profiles to “cost of degree
calculators” on Partner College websites.• Allow IBC Administrators the ability to add new Partner
Colleges to the site.• Provide different directions when students select “Request
More Information” on Partner College Profiles.• Allow all users to search for Partner College Profiles by
state.• Provide easier navigation to the different sections of the
Partner College Profile.• Enhance the Partner College Degree search to be more
comprehensible to keywords and take CIP codes into account.
Summary Agreement and Key Contact Entry and Edit Mode
IBC Administrators will be able to control the Summary Agreement content that Success Coaches and Students see with the ability to:• Show/Hide specific
Partner Colleges.• Edit the Summary
Agreement Information.
• Add/Edit/Delete key contact information at each Partner College.
• Add/Edit/Delete attachments.
Summary Agreement and Key Contact Entry and Edit ModeSummary Agreement
Information
Key Contact Information
Adding Attachments
Summary Agreement and Key Contact Success Coach View
Summary Agreement Information Available to
StudentsStandard sentences will be
populated with the Summary Agreements information entered by the IBC Administrators in an easy-to-
understand fashion.
Summary Agreement Information will be at the bottom of Partner
College Profile.
New Student Search Options
State Dropdown
Modality
Course Grade
2+2 Partner
Maximum Credit Hours
GPA
Program Results by Hierarchy
2 different tabs
New functionality will be introduced to the search results and how they are ordered:
Two tabs will be available (“By Institution” and “By Program Hierarchy”) that will allow a user to flip back-and-forth.
Programs by Hierarchy will take the program CIP code into account. This will allow students to see which partner colleges offer specific and/or similar programs. This is important when multiple institutions name similar programs very differently.
Future Product RequirementsFuture Product Requirements may include, but are not limited to:
• Affinity Groups.• Adult Degree Completion.• Adult Learners.• Ivy Bridge College of Tiffin University Equivalencies combined with the student passport will assist students who have previous coursework get a jump start toward completing a Bachelor’s degree.
• Student Passport with Partner Colleges having a limited Course Equivalency access tool.
Questions/DiscussionThank you.
Angela MatarazzoScott LomasSarah Horn
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