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Online Teaching and Learning as a Transformative
Agent
Burks Oakley II Associate Vice President for
Academic Affairs Director, University of Illinois
Online Professor University of Illinois 2
December 2005
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Warning!
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Univ. of Illinois at Springfield

• Campus was founded in 1969 as Sangamon State
  University to be a regional capstone university
• Became the University of Illinois at Springfield
  in 1995
• 20 bachelors degree programs 18 masters degree
  programs 1 doctoral program

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Univ. of Illinois at Springfield

• UIS/SSU traditionally has served a large
  population of non-traditional students (working
  adults with families, older students, part-time,
  commuter students)
• In 2001, UIS added a lower-division Capital
  Scholars program (100 students/year)
• 2,985 FTE students, 4,517 head-count, 177
  full-time faculty (Fall 2005)

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A vibrant campus at UIS
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A vibrant campus at UIS
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A wireless campus at UIS

• UIS was the first public university in Illinois
  to implement wireless networking throughout its
  campus even in the soccer stadium

University Hall Opened July 2004 31
million 116,000 sq. ft.
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Enrollment trends at UIS
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Enrollment trends at UIS
UIS Credit Hours On-Ground Fall Semester
On-Campus excludes CapScholars
Good Old SSU
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Where have the non-traditional students gone?

• Non-traditional students have constraints (work,
  family, commuting time and expenses)
• Previously, UIS was the only university in the
  region with programs designed for working adults
• But now, non-traditional students have other
  options through online education

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Online learning at UIS
UIS Credit Hours Taught Fall Semester
On-Campus excludes CapScholars
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Online degree programs

• The online program at UIS was started in 1998
• Masters degrees
• Management Information Systems (98), Master
  Teaching and Leadership (00)
• Bachelors degrees
• Liberal Studies (99), English (02), History
  (03), Computer Science (03), Math (Fall 04),
  Philosophy (Fall 04), Math Education (Fall 04)

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UIS online enrollments
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Online learning at UIS
UIS Credit Hours Taught Fall Semester
On-Campus excludes CapScholars
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Penetration of online learning

• In the Fall 2005 semester at UIS
• 37.2 of the students took at least one online
  course (more than 1 in 3)
• 21.8 of the students (more than 1 in 5) took
  online courses exclusively
• 24 of all course credits were generated by
  online courses
• Online majors made up 16.4 of UIS headcount
  enrollment (about 1 in 6)
• The online course enrollments (numbering 2739)
  were 37 greater than they were during the Fall
  2004 semester

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College of Arts Sciences

• LAS enrollment includes approximately 280 online
  majors (Fall 2004)
• Approximately 35 of online majors in the Fall
  2004 term are out-of-state
• Approximately 50 of online majors in the Fall
  2004 term originate from community college
  partner institutions

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Community college partnerships

• A pipeline to UIS online degree completion
• Formal partnership agreements with community
  colleges throughout the nation, ranging from New
  York to Michigan to Colorado to California
• Community colleges promote UIS online degree
  completion programs to their AA and AS graduates
  (great marketing strategy)

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Community College Partners

• Atlantic Cape Community College (NJ)
• Carl Sandburg College
• College of DuPage
• College of Lake County
• Colorado Community Colleges Online (CO)
• Foothill College (CA)
• Herkimer County Community College (NY)
• Illinois Central College
• Illinois Prairie Internet Consortium
• Danville Area Community College
• Heartland Community College
• Illinois Central College
• Illinois Valley Community College
• Lake Land College

• Lincoln Land Community College
• Parkland College
• Richland Community College
• John Wood Community College
• Kankakee Community College
• Kaskaskia College
• Lake Land College
• Lewis and Clark Community College
• Lincoln Land Community College
• Mott Community College (MI)
• Parkland College
• Rend Lake College
• Richland Community College
• Southwestern Illinois College
• University Center of Lake County

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Master in Teaching Leadership

• MTL started in the Fall 2000 semester.
• Has enrolled students from twenty-two states and
  seven other countries. 
• Now 107 graduates of the program.
• Currently has over 360 enrolled students, with
  more than 100 added this past year.
• Offered twenty-one online course sections, with
  about twenty enrollments in each course, this
  past summer.

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Master Teaching Leadership
Gaylee Harris (in pink) is an MTL student who
lives in Saudi Arabia. During an unannounced
campus visit, she met with three of her online
professors Dan Matthews, Patricia Tucker-Ladd
and Theresa Sullivan-Stewart.
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Transformation for online

• What has the UIS campus done to transform itself
  to serve so many new online students?

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New online initiative at UIS

• 1.21 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan
  Foundation (March 2004)
• Specific goals for 3-year project
• Develop 8 new online degrees
• Triple the online enrollments
• Eventually have all on-campus degrees available
  in an online format or at least all degrees that
  departments want to put online the mirror
  campus concept

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OTEL support

• Faculty are supported by the Office of
  Technology-Enhanced Learning (OTEL)
  instructional designers, web developers, graduate
  assistants, hands-on training, brown-bag
  seminars, etc.
• Prof. Ray Schroeder, the Director of OTEL, was
  the 2002 recipient of the Sloan-C award for Most
  Outstanding Achievement in ALN by an Individual

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Integrating online teaching

• Online Teaching Integration Subcommittee (OTIS)
• Faculty chair, Director of OTEL, Dean of LAS,
  Dean of Library, Vice Chancellor for Student
  Affairs, CIO, chief advisor in LAS online office,
  several online faculty, several online students
• Committee charge is to deal with all issues
  related to online programming, in order to
  continually increase quality and student
  faculty satisfaction

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e-tuition

• In the Fall 2003 term, UIS implemented an
  e-tuition policy
• All Illinois residents automatically qualify for
  the e-tuition rate
• Out-of-state students who are enrolled in an
  online degree program and are taking only online
  classes also qualify
• The e-tuition rate is 131.75 per credit hour
  (continuing undergraduate) and 152.75 per credit
  hour (graduate)

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A small regional campus

• Due to e-tuition, UIS is now attracting a
  national (and international) audience
• 23.8 of the online enrollments are now from
  out-of-state
• For the Fall 2005 semester, UIS has online
  students living in 45 states, Washington DC, and
  Guam. Online students also are enrolled from
  countries other than the USA, including Canada,
  Colombia, Germany, Italy, and Japan.

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Online is part of the mainstream

• At UIS, online courses are taught by the same
  faculty who teach on-campus courses
• Online teaching is done on-load it is part of a
  faculty members regular teaching assignment
• Online degree programs are managed by the
  departments, not by a separate continuing
  education unit

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Faculty-driven process

• Online degree programs at UIS are faculty-driven
  departmental faculty first must vote to put their
  degrees online
• College must then approve, then the Undergraduate
  or Graduate Council

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More than just online courses

• Student services are now available online
• Admissions
• Advising and counseling
• Financial aid
• Help desk
• Library resources
• Placement and career services
• Student government
• Tutoring

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Retention in online courses

• Retention in online classes at UIS
• Spring 2002  96.2
• Summer 2002  94.5
• Fall 2002  94.1
• Spring 2003  94.3
• Summer 2003  94.8
• Fall 2003 93.1
• Spring 2004 94.2
• Summer 2004 95.6
• Fall 2004 90.4
• Spring 2005 91.3
• Summer 2005 93.1
• On-campus retention averaged 94 for the past 4
  semesters

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Sloan-C quality framework

• Emphasis on quality and the five pillars
• Access
• Learning effectiveness
• Student satisfaction
• Faculty satisfaction
• Cost effectiveness
• Pillar editors and non-effective
  effective practices

Westminster College Fulton, MO
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The pillars at UIS
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Quality

• Commitment to Quality
• Offering time/place dispersed students the same
  (or higher) quality of education as on campus
• Through the same college/dept. structures
• With the same faculty members
• Through the same or analogous curriculum

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Scale

• Commitment to Scale
• Identifying needs and scaling up to meet those
  needs
• Meeting the needs of significant numbers of
  disenfranchised and marginalized learners
• Providing a meaningful service that can have a
  measurable impact on a profession, a geographic
  region, or an identifiable group of people

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Breadth

• Commitment to Breadth
• Not merely a handful of boutique online programs
• Not catering only to a single limited audience or
  discipline
• Providing a meaningful range of degree or
  certificate offerings
• Providing access analogous to the access afforded
  those who can reside on a campus

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Attracting new students
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Attracting new students

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Majors by State, County
Fall 2004 data
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Online majors by average age
Fall 2004 data
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Average credit hours
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Inter-institutional collaboration

• Common modes for online collaboration
• Guest speakers any time / anywhere
• Time/geographic boundaries no longer matter
• Faculty exchanges without leaving campus
• Student exchanges without leaving dorms or
  homes
• Joint degree programs
• Joint faculty appointments

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Pilot program UIS and CSU

• UIS/CSU partnership
• Solving problems at each campus
• Timely degree completion / Diversity / Increasing
  enrollment
• Collaboration grows into mutually-beneficial
  relationship
• Both institutions share in successes that help
  meet each others as well as their own needs

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Future of collaboration

• Online collaboration in higher education
• Breaking down geographic, cultural, and
  institutional barriers
• Promoting diversity broader understanding
• Sharing resources laboratories, libraries,
  hardware, software, and more
• Sharing faculty and staff expertise
• Offering under-enrolled classes
• Stretching the curriculum

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Online Teaching and Learning as a Transformative
Agent
Burks Oakley II web http//www.online.uillinois.
edu/oakley/ e-mail oakley_at_uillinois.edu