Rethinking Developmental Math Education: Overview of the NEBHE/
Khan Academy Demonstration Project
Presenters: Stafford Peat, Senior Consultant Monnica Chan, Director of Policy and Research
NEBHE Leader Forum & Fall Board Meeting September 13th, 2012
Overview • Lumina Foundation awarded NEBHE a three-year grant
to demonstrate the effectiveness of using Khan Academy math content and online tools to improve developmental math outcomes
• Over three years NEBHE plans to work with staff from 8-12 community colleges
• Targets traditional and non-traditional developmental math courses (multiple levels) and pre-matriculation programs as pilots
• Supports on-going developmental education reforms
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Project Goals
• Increase postsecondary persistence and success in developmental math courses using Khan Academy platform
• Drive reform of developmental math instruction using new no cost tools
• Create regional engagement to promote and support developmental education reform
• Generate high-impact data and research findings and expand knowledge of new approaches
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Project Goals (cont.)
• Have college faculty use “Flipped Classroom” strategizes in their developmental math and determine their effectiveness and under what conditions
• Produce a NEBHE document that documents findings and best practices
• Use demonstration project to enhance Khan’s usefulness for postsecondary education
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• Research existing NE innovative DM courses, syllabi/formats • Begin mapping and aligning Khan
online resources/Common Core to a set of identified DM models
Project Rollout
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Anticipate serving 200-250
students in Spring and Summer semesters
December: Orient and train up to 25 college staff participating in
Cohort 1 November: Recruit
and select first of two cohorts of four-
six community college sites
Host Fall Board meeting Information
session
October: Informational
Webinar
Incentives for Colleges to Participate
• Khan Academy is no cost vs. other CAI programs
• Khan can be used in a variety of instructional settings and pedagogical approaches
• NEBHE will provide coaching and ongoing technical assistance and support
• Tiered pilot site incentives based upon number of students. Funds can be used to defray costs including data collection or staff travel. Funds can be also used for other purposes to be determined by pilot institution
• Faculty stipends @$250 per course to compensate for additional time
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Watch Practice Coach
Over 3300 videos 210 in Arithmetic and Pre- Algebra 717 in Algebra
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The Khan Academy iPad app skyrocketed to be the #1 educa9on app within days of launching. Over 600,000 downloads to date.
14,000 Classrooms
471,000 Users involved in
coaching groups of size 10 or greater
25 Pilot
Schools
13% Ac9ve users in schools are interna9onal
2,000 Total
Schools
Khan Academy by the numbers
42.5 million
Unique Visitors To Date
500 million problems solved to date
150 million videos watched to date
35%
65%
Videos
Exercises
June, 2012
# 1 Educa9on App
5,072,554 Unique Visitors
March 25 – April 25
1,357,377 Hours spent on Khan Academy
March 25 – April 25
Why Khan Academy?
• Data available via dashboard for students and teachers on videos watched and problems practiced, as well as goals set and attained.
• Tool for individualized
instruction
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Watch Practice Coach
Khan Academy Dashboard
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Khan Academy Dashboard
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Implementing Khan Academy
For examples of Khan Academy classroom usage and teacher resources check out:
http://www.khanacademy.org/coach/
resources
• To what extent, and in what ways, is student performance in DM impacted by implementation of new delivery formats and Khan technology-based tools?
• What are the most (least) effective utilizations of Khan-based tools?
• What is the impact of the pilot implementation on DM at the institution?
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Demonstrating Impact
• Recommendations for the Advisory Committee
• Participation in project webinar
• Feedback and model developmental math course syllabi for alignment work
• Invitations from institutions
• Institutions that will participate in cohort 1
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What we need…
For more information about or participating in the Rethinking Developmental Math Education NEBHE/Khan Academy
Demonstration Project contact:
Stafford Peat at [email protected] or Monnica Chan at [email protected]