EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF ADULT DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAM:

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EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF ADULT DISTANCE
EDUCATION PROGRAM

• NOVANET AT HOME!

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CRAVEN CC DISTANCE EDUCATION TEAM

• Suzanne Taylor
• GED/AHS Distance Education Coordinator
• Linda A. Dickinson
• Learning Lab/Distance Education Instructor

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Craven CC NovaNET Student
Why did I decide to sign up for NovaNET?
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How has NovaNET worked for me?
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Craven County -Coastal North Carolina

• New Bern, population 23,128
• Havelock/Cherry Point MCAS, population 22,442
• County population 91,754

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CRAVEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

• Two campuses
• New Bern
• Havelock
• Student population at both sites
• 3000 Curriculum Students per semester
• 10, 000 Continuing Ed. Students per year
• 850 Basic Skills Students Spring 2005

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Do you need to add a distance education program?

• Community dynamics
• Transportation (public or private)
• Distance to campus
• Multiple campuses
• Shift work/schedules
• Student age
• Childcare issues

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• Student Demand
• Available students
• Existing classroom base

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• Support of college administration
• Funding
• Cost comparison of portal lease to funding return
  per student hour

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Yes, we doso our next step is program approval.

• Proposal or outline to be approved by
• Basic skills instructors on local level
• College dean who oversees basic skills division
• College president
• State basic skills director
• State auditor/auditing requirements

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How do we market a new program with little extra
money?

• Free TV and newspaper interviews
• Community agencies
• DSS, ESC, WIA, Health Department, DMV, HRD,
  Courts, and Probation officers
• Fliers and posters
• Shopping centers, laundromats, grocery stores,
  Wal-mart, Salvation Army stores, restaurants,
  libraries, Habitat for Humanity sites
• ESL curriculum in ethnic stores

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Marketing, cont.

• Technology
• Public service announcements on radio, cable and
  regular television
• College website
• Email link to basic skills coordinator

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Marketing, cont.

• Basic Skills students
• Previously enrolled
• Currently enrolled
• Learning Lab
• Small-classes
• Off-site (satellite) classes
• Potential enrollments

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Training our staff

• Hired new part-time coordinators
• GED, Adult High School, Distance Education
• Enlisted help of existing full-time instructors
• Hired Part-time Instructor
• Nova NET representative trained
• Coordinators, instructors, director,
  recruitment/retention specialist, administrative
  dean/associate vice-president

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Timing is essential!

• Early enough
• Instructor planning
• Program manipulation
• Familiarization with course content
• Preparation of student handouts
• Late enough
• Instructors dont forget
• How to access the system
• How to enroll students
• How to make assignments

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Student Handouts

• Code of conduct
• Distance Education Marketing Materials
• Instructions on downloading
• Instructions on updating lessons
• NovaNet function key templates
• Course outlines with additional assignments

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Its time to hire more instructors!

• Consider the type of instructor
• Flexible
• Energetic
• Exciting
• Innovative
• Deals well with changes
• Takes the initiative to contact students
• Enjoys
• Challenges
• Computers

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• Consider the number of instructor hours
• When and where
• Responsibilities to students
• Orientation to programs
• Access information
• Enrollment
• Prescription
• Monitoring

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Responsibilities to Students Contd

• Records/reporting
• Recruitment/retention
• Tutoring
• Transcript evaluation
• Scheduling for GED testing
• Graduation readiness paperwork

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Retention Practices

• Telephone calls
• Postcards and letters
• NovaNet bulletins
• Email
• Instructor availability to students
• Telephone number on handouts
• Email access

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Distance Ed. At Craven CC May 2003

• Initially operated under Learning Lab instructor
  with assistant instructors
• Added separate instructor for distance education
  when numbers were sufficient to support
  stand-alone class
• Satellite campus program still under Havelock
  Learning Lab instructor

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Distance Education Programs

• ESL
• NEW! NovaNet 2005
• Video
• Adult Basic Skills
• NovaNet
• Correspondence
• Video, DVD

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• GED
• NovaNet
• Correspondence
• Video/DVD
• Adult High School
• NovaNet

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NovaNet Enrollment Numbers

• New Bern
• 2003 Started with less than 7 students
• 2005 185 plus students enrolled this spring!
• Havelock
• 2003 Started with 10 in Summer 2003
• 2005 75 plus students enrolled this spring!

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Distance Education Percentages

• Main Campus AHS Graduates using NovaNet and
  other Distance Ed. Tools to help meet goal 55
• Satellite Campus AHS Graduates using NovaNET and
  other Distance Ed. Tools to help meet this goal
  80

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Has it hurt classroom attendance?

• Learning Lab, Main Campus Attendance down
  slightly in the Lab since students now have the
  option to work from home but it allows for more
  completion of goals
• Learning Lab, Satellite Campus Many students
  dually enrolled
• Off-site classes -- No change in number of
  classes being offered in ESL, one less in GED due
  to location shutdown, not Distance Education
  influence

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Has it worked?

• AHS students using NovaNet
• Semester courses A and/or B assigned as needed
• Military students on deployment
• Dependents out of state for extended periods
• Mothers with pre-schoolers
• Highly motivated, independent students
• Students needing very structured process

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• GED students studying before actual GED testing
• ABE students
• Low-level students perform better in classroom
  setting
• Intermediate-level students make considerable
  progress in math, writing, and reading

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Problems

• Internet access interruptions
• Internet discontinuation due to lack of funds
• Limited home computer capabilities
• Media lessons will not download
• Distractions at home
• Lack of self-discipline or self-motivation
• Failure to meet minimum hours on NovaNet
• As set by college

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What would we change with more dollars?

• LEASE MORE PORTALS
• Hire fulltime distance education coordinator
• Hire fulltime instructor

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• Chart student progress in more detail
• Recruit partners to offer student incentives
• Finishing AHS credit
• Passing GED tests
• Develop learning community for students
• Post student pictures on Graduation Board
• Offer free curriculum credits to those students
  who earn GED/AHS credentials

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Craven CC NovaNET InstructorWhat Do I Like
About Teaching NovaNET?
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What Type of ABE or GED Student Uses NovaNET?
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What Advice or Suggestions Would I Give to Future
Distance NovaNET Instructors?
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Your Questions