ELI Online Seminar - Breakthrough Models for College Completion

Breakthrough Models for College Completion: Analytics, Disaggregated Instruction, and Competency-Based Learning

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2013 Online Seminar

May 20, 2013 | 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET (UTC-4) convert to your time zone; Runs three hours.

Malcolm Brown, ELI director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, will moderate this online seminar with NGLC Breakthrough Model project representatives from Altius Education, Northern Arizona University, Board of Regents, University System of Georgia, and Rio Salado College. Join us as we tour successful examples of

• Competency-based learning: The focus is on student mastery of key competencies, and individual courses often employ a complex competency map defined, in part, by employers. Once students demonstrate mastery, they move forward to tackle other competencies. Through credit for prior learning and pretesting, students can demonstrate that mastery on a much faster timetable.
• Disaggregated faculty roles: To maximize efficiency, these models rethink the traditional staffing and student support models, tapping subject matter experts to design and evaluate course content while leveraging other instructors to provide ongoing support.
• Data to target supports: At the heart of most NGLC programs are robust online learning environments that provide students with access to faculty, courses, and other tools. Program designers are also using these systems to harvest data about student performance, which, in turn, can be used to predict their eventual success.

Learning Objectives

By actively participating in this seminar, attendees will be able to:

• Identify effective practices that promote learning
• Apply a learner-centered instructional approach that utilizes varied support services and personnel
• Understand ways that data can be used to support students’ unique learning needs

Resources

• Next Generation Learning Challenges
• Next Generation Learning Challenges, Wave IIIB College Completion

ELI Seminar Special Guests

April Worley
Development Officer
Ivy Bridge College
Altius Education

Alison Leigh Brown
Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs
Extended Campuses
Northern Arizona University

Art Seavey
Director of Policy and Partnership Development
Board of Regents
University System of Georgia

Jennifer Freed
Dean of Instruction
Rio Salado College