Seattle Community Colleges

Student Success in Online versus On-Campus Courses

Seattle Community Colleges

Tom Braziunas, Associate Dean, eLearning

Seattle Community Colleges

SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGES Gates Foundation (May 2013)

Completion & Passing RatesNorth Seattle Community College Data:

Completion rates and passing rates for an apples-to-apples comparison of courses taught in both on-campus and online modalities

On-campus completion rate = 82% Online completion rate = 80%

On-campus course passing rate = 76% Online course passing rate = 75%

2007 – 2013101,866 enrollments

Seattle Community Colleges

SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGES Gates Foundation (May 2013)

Completion & Passing RatesSeattle Times: “Online classes may worsen educational achievement gap, study shows”

North Seattle Community College Data 2007 – 2013: Apples-to-apples comparisons

Passing rates (%) for full-time students Passing rates (%) for part-time students

White

Asian/P

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Africa

n Americ

an

Native Americ

an

Hispanic

Other/M

ulti-Race

Total M

inority

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78 7566 63

70 67 7080 76

6863

70 74 73

White

Asian/P

acific

Africa

n Americ

an

Native Americ

an

Hispanic

Other/M

ulti-Race

Total M

inority

0102030405060708090

77 76

63 6772 71 7175 72

59 56 5968 66

Campus Online

Seattle Community Colleges

SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGES Gates Foundation (May 2013)

Evidence-Driven Model

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

75.0%

77.0%

79.0%

81.0%

83.0%

85.0%

87.0%

89.0%

91.0%

93.0%

95.0%

Hybrid

Campus

Online

Econ CoursesCompletion rates

Completion ratesNSCC Economics cour-ses

Seattle Community Colleges

SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGES Gates Foundation (May 2013)

Lessons Learned & Work Ahead

Factors supporting comparable completion rates in online & campus learning? “Secrets” to our success…

How to “raise rates” & “close the gap”? Will blended learning work? Reasons to expect success…

First steps: NSCC Hybrid Evening AA Degree Program I-DEA “Flipped Classroom” Instructional Strands