Technology Transformation Task Force

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Technology Transformation Task Force

• Long-term planning to infuse innovative,
  student-centered technologies and transform
  learning throughout the CTC system.
• Structural shift to student-centric applications,
  services and development processes.
• Leverage technology, services and content across
  the 34 Colleges.
• Final report in Spring 08.

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Technology Transformation Task Force

• Build the case for funding FY 09-11
• Produce a technology plan that addresses
• Vision and roadmap for how our system will
  cooperate to support our students and colleges
  with technology
• Role of technology in student access, teaching
  and learning, and efficient college operations
• Technology gaps what we have vs. what we need
• Implementation, funding and governance.
• Sync with WA Learns, HECB Master Plan,
  SBCTC System Direction

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Vision

• Washingtons Community and Technical Colleges are
  viewed as the strongest and smartest technology
  rich system in the world, with our colleges
  recognized at local, state, national and
  international levels for fully utilizing modern
  technologies to provide seamless learning
  opportunities to all citizens. We have a
  technology infrastructure that is student
  centric, robust, innovative, adaptable and
  affordable. Our eLearning, student services and
  administrative tools are driven by student,
  faculty and staff needs and focused on improving
  student success.

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Principle Access

• Provide equitable access to educational and
  administrative technologies.
• All colleges have access to a complete suite of
  eLearning applications and support services.
• eLearning is at the core of how we educate
  students.
• Web-based platform enables straightforward
  deployment of evolving tools and services.
• Policies are fair and fully supportive of
  enhanced, hybrid, and fully online courses and a
  24/7/365 online student services model.

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Principle Success

• Quality online student services support student
  success and enhance colleges relationships with
  students.
• System provides 24/7/365 online services for the
  individual student.
• Data analytics provide colleges information to
  make adjustments and improve learning outcomes.

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Principle Transformation

• Our system embraces a culture of rapid, constant
  change and continuous improvement.
• We make frequent false starts in deploying and
  supporting applications.
• Expected and valued as part of our ongoing
  iterative design process to improve student,
  faculty and staff services.

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Principle Innovation

• We support innovation wherever it occurs.
• Students, faculty, staff, colleges and global
  partners are all sources of creative ideas for
  meeting local community needs and creating
  pioneering technology solutions.
• The infrastructure supports this through a
  flexible, responsive and open core of
  applications, an open system-wide testing
  environment and support for local experimentation.

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Principle Informed

• Knowing how to infuse educational technologies
  unique capabilities throughout teaching and
  learning requires new thinking.
• Our system provides comprehensive professional
  development around all tools and 21st century
  pedagogies to empower faculty and staff to become
  proficient with and excited about wielding new
  technologies to revolutionize learning.

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Principle Accountable

• There is clear system level governance, vision,
  authority, accountability and funding to
  encourage efficiencies in technology.
• System rejects arguments for special
  customization or developing mature off-the-shelf
  and/or open source software that already exists.
• A governance team of technology leaders embraces
  a customer relationship with students and
  colleges by focusing on results for users and
  continually adding and enhancing tools and
  services.

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Principle Funding

• Essential technologies and support services are
  funded like a utility and operated for and by our
  system.
• Our system allocates a balanced mix of
  sustainable resources to support teaching and
  learning, student services and administrative
  infrastructure.
• Our system takes full advantage of cost effective
  partnerships and leveraging outsourced resources.

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What we learned from Students

• Students want
• 24/7/365 online access to courses and student
  services
• faculty to be proficient with available
  technologies beginning with faculty hires
• access to better online library resources

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What we learned from Students

• Students want
• consistency in the technology tools and expertise
  across all courses and Colleges
• access to online textbooks to lower costs and
  reduce paper use
• expanded availability of computer labs

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What we learned from Faculty

• faculty believe technology helps them teach more
  effectively (87)
• faculty turn to other faculty for information
  about new learning technologies (72)
• student expectations motivate faculty to learn
  more about technology (69)

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What we learned from Faculty

• Faculty who say they are proficient users of
  technology
• teach more technology-enabled classes
• use more advanced types of technologies
• tend to be positive about technology and its
  benefits
• want more training in advanced technologies

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What we learned from Faculty

• Faculty who say they are not proficient users of
  technology
• teach fewer classes using technology
• use less advanced technologies
• are moderately positive about technology and less
  sure of its benefits
• want more training in less-advanced technologies

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Faculty Conclusions

• Faculty Support Technology Expansion
• expect to be consulted
• Peer-to-Peer Networks Critical
• Want more Training and Time to Use Technology

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Next Steps

• Now Drafting Technology Plan
• Spring
• Circulate Plan WACTC, TACTC, Commissions,
  Councils
• Final Task Force meeting
• System Technology Governance
• Spring / Summer 08 Budget Leg Request

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Bottom Line

• Accountability
• Shared technology, support services and content
  is a responsible use of public funds.
• Accessibility
• All students, faculty and staff need access to
  enterprise eLearning administrative systems and
  support services to compete in the global market.
• Affordability
• No College can afford all necessary eLearning
  administrative systems support services
  individually.

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Discussion
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Contact

• Your Name
• you_at_college.edu
• [phone]

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• Slides about online learning growth if you want /
  need them.

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eLearning in Context

• Growth in online enrollments far exceeds overall
  enrollment growth.
• CTC system FTE growth Fall 2007 is up 1, while
  online enrollments increased 15
• 3.5 million students are taking at least one
  online course representing nearly twenty percent
  of all U.S. higher education students.

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Two-year institutions provide the largest share
of online enrollments, with more online students
at these institutions than all other types
combined. Growth rates for two-year institutions
have exceeded those of all the other institution
types, and they now command over 54 percent of
all online enrollments in U.S. higher education.
In Washington State, it is 75
Allen and Seaman. Online Nation Five Years of
Growth in Online Learning. Sloan Consortium, 2007.
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Washington Community Technical CollegesOnline
Courses Fall 07

• 13,473 FTE online
• equivalent of 2.5 Community Colleges
• Over 72,000 students learn online each year

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Growth in Online CoursesFall FTE 1998-2010
1999-2007 growth 715
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Growth in Online CoursesAnnual Enrollment
1998-2010
1999-2007 growth 426
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• Why does this growth curve matter?

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Educate More Citizens

• HECB Master Plan
• I. Raise educational attainment to create
  prosperity, opportunity
• Policy Goal Increase the total number of degrees
  and certificates produced annually to achieve
  Global Challenge State benchmarks.
• By 2018, raise mid-level degrees and certificates
  to 36,200 annually, an increase of 9,400 degrees
  annually.