Open General Education Curriculum at Multi-Institutional Scale

David Wiley, Ph.D. Co-founder & Chief Academic Officer, Lumen Learning

Ronda Neugebauer, M.Ed.Faculty Success Lead, Lumen Learning

lumenlearning.com

Kim Thanos, M.B.A.

David Wiley, Ph.D.

NGLC grants target specific challenges that address barriers to educational success.

NGLC strives to dramatically improve college readiness and completion, particularly for low-income students and students of color, by identifying promising technology solutions.

http://nextgenlearning.org/nglc-overview

Use open educational resources (OER) to improve the success of at-risk students at multi-

institutional scale

Kaleidoscope: Goal

http://oli.cmu.edu/

Makes It Easy to Share OER: 4Rs

• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse

• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the contentRevise

• Combine the original or revised content with other OER to create something newRemix

• Share copies of the original content, revisions or remixes with others

Redistribute

http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1270

Percent Change Since 1978 Educational Books - Medical Services

New Home Prices - Consumer Price Index

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/12/the-college-textbook-bubble-and-how-the-open-educational-resources-movement-is-going-up-against-the-textbook-cartel/

Direct Relationship between Textbook Costs and Student

Success

60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost

35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost

23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost

14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost

10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost

Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus

http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Exec_Sum_Student_Txtbk_Survey.pdf

OER Impact

no broken links or surprise content changesfreedom from the textbook and impact of costs

access to course materials on Day 1teacher and learner customization

right to make changes for continuous improvement

deconstructing the silos for collaboration

Kaleidoscope Approach

develop open course designscreate full set of open materials for every

outcomeimplement sound instructional design

support architecture of attributioncontinuously improve using learning analytics

Mercy College ResultsPercentage passing with C or better

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63.60%68.90%

48.40%

60.18%55.91%

64.50%

Fall 2011No OER

Fall 2012OER

Spring 2011No OER

Spring 2013OER

TotalNo OER

TotalOER

n=2,842 including pilot

Kaleidoscope 2013-2014

Create and share 20+ additional open course designs

Open content and assessments Aligned to outcomes Analytics enabled

http://www.tcc.edu/news/press/2013/TextbookFreeDegree.htm

Kaleidoscope 2013-2014

Create and share 20+ additional open course designs

Open content and assessments Aligned to outcomes Analytics enabled

Support institutions through transition Faculty training and support Leadership training and support

Sustain Curate and update Improve learning results based on analytics

Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiativeinnovating teaching and learning and

improving student success

lowering costs for students and institutionsaccessing course materials from Day 1customizing content for diverse needsusing learning analytics to strengthen

instructional design

Interested in Kaleidoscope?

http://www.lumenlearning.com/engage

Continuous Improvement

Using empirical data to drive instructional redesign loops

ImprovOER

https://github.com/lumenlearning

Hosted, managed, and supported ImprovOERhttp://lumenlearning.com/

What Kind of Data?

Content data like visits and timeAssessment data like score, attempts, timing

Step 0: Alignment

Determine which content support success on which assessments

Step 1: Engagement

Combine content and non-score assessment data

Step 2: Performance

Assessment score

Step 3: Simple Backpropagation Neural Network

yij = xij * si * aj

Estimate student and assignment params

xij(hidden) yij

si aj

Step 5: Identify Candidates

Use all available data, plus SSEs, to identify

Step 6: Recommendations

Provide alternative open content and assessment suggestions to faculty

Decrease Cost, Increase Quality

Continuous improvement drives OER quality, augmenting cost benefits

Discussion

@opencontent@rondaneugebauer