Learn and Earn Online How is it working

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Learn and Earn Online How is it working?

• Antonio Jordan, Director
• Joint High School Partnership Programs
• North Carolina Community College System
• November 14, 2007

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Inception of Learn and Earn Online

• North Carolina Governor Mike Easley's top
• priority is reforming public education in
• North Carolina so students are ready to
• succeed either in college or in meeting the
• workforce demands of the global economy

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What is Learn and Earn Online?

• Students in participating public high schools can
  take a variety of online college-credit courses
  at no cost to them or to their families. Students
  earn both high school and college credit for
  completed courses

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Proposed Amendment to HB 1473, Sec.
7.27(h)

• Notwithstanding any other provision of
• law, the State Board of Community
• Colleges, in cooperation with the State
• Board of Education, shall permit high school
• students to enroll in online courses for
• college credit beginning with the Fall 2007
• semester

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House Bill 1473 provides

• College textbooks through the Department of
  Public Instruction
• Waived tuition (students not counted in regular
  budget FTE)
• Technology fees reimbursed from System Office
• Instruction reimbursement from System Office
• Support from System Office

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What does the amendment mean?

• 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th graders can enroll in
  courses online in community colleges
• Students can take online courses with colleges
  outside of their current service area
• Also, SBCC would be given flexibility to resolve
  any barriers identified in collaboration with the
  DPI

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Community Colleges will

• Provide full complement of student services
  including tutoring, advising, testing (online)
• Receive infrastructure funding to expand
  bandwidth
• Not receive additional funding for equipment,
  e.g. computers

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Community Colleges volunteered to participate if
they

• Provide connectivity sufficient to enroll high
  school students
• Provide a current list of online courses (local
  or VLC) to be offered
• Provide course prerequisites to high school
  distance learning facilitator
• Designate a community college contact

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44 Community Colleges participating in Learn and
Earn Online

• Montgomery CC Nash CC Pamlico CC Piedmont CC
  Pitt CC Randolph CC Richmond CC Robeson CC
  Rockingham CC Sampson CC Sandhills CC South
  Piedmont CC Southeastern CC Southwestern CC
  Stanly CC Surry CC Tri-County CC
  Vance-Granville CC Wake TCC Wayne CC Wilkes
  CC Wilson CC

• Asheville-Buncombe TCC Bladen CC Blue Ridge CC
  Brunswick CC Caldwell CC/TI Carteret CC
  Catawba Valley CC Central Carolina CC College
  of The Albemarle Craven CC Davidson County CC
  Edgecombe CC Fayetteville TCC Forsyth TCC
  Gaston College Guilford TCC Isothermal CC
  James Sprunt CC Johnston CC Lenoir CC Martin
  CC Mayland CC

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Learn and Earn Online Courses Fall 2007

• 517 different courses offered
• 1730 sections for the Fall
• Everything from ACA (Academic Related)
• 111 - College Student Success to WEB (Web
  Technologies) 260 E-Commerce Infrastructure

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Learn and Earn Enrollment Estimated Fall 2007
Enrollment Data

• Number of students registered
• More than 300 students registered as of Sept. 30
• Number of courses taken
• More than 90 courses taken

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Challenges with Learn and Earn Online

• Communication
• Functionality
• Responsibilities
• Contact personnel
• Technology updates
• Marketing
• Awareness/Education

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Positives related to Learn and Earn Online

• Technology
• Eliminating Silos
• College credit
• Campus involvement
• Students

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Reimbursement Process

• Colleges submit LE-Online estimated FTE
• (Full-time Enrollment) at census date each fall
  
• spring
• Colleges submit actual technology fees charged
  via survey from System Office
• System Office calculates the per FTE
  reimbursement
• System Office submits request to DPI (Department
  of Public Instruction)
• DPI transfers reimbursement amount to System
  Office
• System Office separately allocates to
  participating colleges

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Reimbursement Structure

• Reimbursed after the census dates at 2007-08
  rates for both semesters
• Instruction Support 4,746 per FTE
• Actual technology fees charged
• Books are LSAU (Local School Administrative Unit)
  responsibility

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Next Steps/Questions

• This is a work-in-progress and an iterative
  process
• Details are still being worked through
• Procedures will evolve as needed