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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