Response to Course & Delivery Redesign: Streamlining for Productivity and Quality Janet Moore Chief Knowledge Officer The Sloan Consortium
Response to Course & Delivery Redesign: Streamlining for Productivity
and Quality Janet Moore
Chief Knowledge Officer The Sloan Consortium
• Innovative design • Program redesign • Localness • Consortia • Retention
Reduce, avoid, share costs
• Open learning initiative • Ibest • Self-‐paced courses • Rolling enrollment • Hyflex
Innovative design
Model-‐Driven Design
Program redesign
• Umass • Pace • CUNY
Localness
• Courses • Faculty • Students • Services
Consortia sharing
“Retention initiatives…are estimated to be 3–5 times more cost-‐effective than recruitment efforts, i.e., the cost of recruiting one new student to college approximates the cost of retaining 3–5 already enrolled students”
~ Policy Center on the First Year of College
Retention
Beatty, B. Hyflex Course Design and Delivery. Cuseo, J. Academic advisement and student retention: Empirical connections and systemic interventions. Policy Center on the First Year of College: February 13, 2003. JALN 13:3. Special Issue on Retention. Laster, S. Model-‐Driven Design Moloney, J. et al. Characteristics of Successful Local Blended Programs in the Context of the Sloan-‐C Pillars JALN 11:1 Otte, G. Online Instruction as Local Education: CUNY's Online Baccalaureate. JALN 11:1 Sloan-‐C Effective Practices: http://www.sloanconsortium.org/effective. Webber, D. A., R. G. Ehrenberg. Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education? Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. August 1, 2009. http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/cheri/upload/cheri_wp121.pdf.
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