Sustainability  Strategies Rich  Cummins,  Columbia  Basin  College  Linda  Howdyshell,  Broward  College  

Nancy  Thibeault,  Sinclair  Community  College  

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Ques1ons  to  address

As  you  implemented  your  CBE  program  what  struck  you  as  the  biggest  challenges  to  sustainability?    What  approach  did  to  take  to  solving  these  challenges?  

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Rich  Cummins  

Sustainability  Strategies      

CBE4CC Dr. Linda Howdyshell College Provost & Senior VP for Academic Affairs & Student Success

 

Accelerated IT Training Programs (ATP) •  Competency-based delivery model (flipping traditional model) •  Independent study for self-directed learners •  Opportunities for acceleration utilizing prior learning assessment

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Program Overview

Assessing the project success:

1.  Sustaining is not just a continuation of the grant project – use your data to analyze what worked!

2.  Conduct an assessment of successful grant implemented activities that can and should be continued

3.  Identify and develop those successful components and insure they are consistent with the current conditions in your organization for scalabiltiy

Sustaining after the funding…..

1.  Identify short and long term strategies for your organization

2.  Determine specific components that can be sustained and scaled

3.  Identify what resources are need to sustain your project (e.g. additional faculty, staff, space, etc.)

4.  Develop buy-in among your strategic partners who provide leveraged resources and will continue in the future

5.  Market the idea within your organization and externally to your board members, industry associations, and other state or national organizations in which you belong

Sustainability Strategies

Keys Steps in the planning process:

1.  Clarify your vision 2.  Determine what you will sustain 3.  Build collaboration 4.  Develop action steps 5.  Create timeline 6.  Document and communicate your sustainability successes

Developing a Formal Plan

•  Broward’s  Plan  

•  Addressed sustainability in the first year of the grant

•  Developed the plan in the second year

•  Collaboration began in the third year

•  Broward’s  Plan  

1.  Build capacity and scalability 2.  Incorporate as much as you can into existing, ongoing

organizational operations rather than continuing to maintain and manage it as a separate project (Broward College has a very successful Online Campus)

3.  Make collaboration an ongoing process 4.  Evaluate outputs and outcomes as marketing tools 5.  Actively pursue the resources needed 6.  Look at what other successful grantees have done

Sustainability Plan Considerations

QuesGons?  

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Program Overview Flex-Paced Online IT Programs

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Sustainability Planning June 4, 2015

Dr. Nancy Thibeault, Dean eLearning Division / Director TAACCCT Grant

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elearning  Division      • Centralized oversight of online learning

•  Instructional Design •  Media development •  Faculty training •  Online student support

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Overall  Strategy:  

•  Leverage  exisGng  college  processes  and  services  by  integraGng  into  the  “owning”  departments  

• Develop,  pilot  test  and  refine  manual  processes  • Use  technology  and  data  to  target  intervenGons  and  automate  processes  

• Partner  with  “compleGon  iniGaGves”  to  transfer  innovaGons  and  lessons  learned  to  a  broader  audience  

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Course  Development    •  Integrated  into  exisGng  Web  Course  Development  Department  

•  Incorporated  CBE  development  into  exisGng  single  content  source,  master  online  course  development  process.  

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Student  support    •  Integrated  into  exisGng  eLearning  and  Program  Support  Department  

•  Significantly  enhanced  and  expanded  exisGng  SinclairOnline  Support  model  through    

•  Data-­‐driven  coach  reports  and  intervenGons  •  5-­‐phase  student  support  model  

•  Extend  the  Accelerate  IT  student  support  model  to  SinclairOnline  by  automaGng  the  data-­‐driven,  Gered  support  approach  to  include  automated  rouGne  intervenGons  and  targeted  personal  intervenGons  

•  Package  exisGng  online  Career  Services  tools  into  a  “Virtual  Career  Center”  

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Course  Delivery    •  Course  scheduling  and  staffing  integrated  into  exisGng  academic  department  process  

•  Incorporated  into  college’s  registraGon  and  scheduling  processes  

•  Automated  filter  to  populate  instrucGonal  shell  with  students  from  registraGon  secGons  

•  Automated  intake,  screening,  and  admission  processes  by  integraGng  CBE  OrientaGon  and  approval  processes  into  exisGng  “How  to  Succeed”  online  course  approval  process  

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Employer  Engagement    •  ExisGng  program  advisory  boards  •  “Strategic  Partners”  model  adopted  by  academic  departments/divisions  

•  BPS  Internship  coordinator  •  Incorporate  into  C4C  Advisory  teams  

Public  Workforce  Engagement    •  New  Student  Enrollment  Center  staffs  Job  Center  office  20  hours  /  week  

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Questions

Contact

Nancy.Thibeault@Sinclair.edu

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