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Project DELTA – Disseminating Effective
Learning Through Automation
Fund for the Improvement of
Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)
Florida Distance Learning Consortium
November 12, 2009
Project DELTA – A FIPSE funded project
Special Forces Competition:
Innovative Strategies for Working
Adults and Displaced Workers
Three year grant: $728,112
Project DELTA – A FIPSE funded project
NEEDS:
1. Improve the working adult student or
displaced worker retention and
success in hybrid, face-to-face, and
online courses
2. Facilitate faculty expertise in applying
learning and motivation theory
to modified higher education courses
for the working adult
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NEEDS:
3. Provide instructional delivery
strategies that replace textbooks
with instructional materials while
focusing on innovation and
established research principles in
learning and motivation
4. Achieve the above while reducing
educational costs to students.
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Project Goals
• Stimulate student professional/career
growth and/or academic growth
• Improve educational outcomes and
academic success
• Increase educational program quality
• Reduce cost of learning / Improve cost
effectiveness
• Growth and demand of project
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Provided funding to:
• Faculty Training
• Low-cost instructional/textbook
replacement model (SIRIUS)
• Innovative general education
courses – delivered online, face-toface, blended
• Online career counseling
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Provided funding to customize and
recreate two new courses
• Student Life Skills (SLS) course, a
college preparatory
• Basic Skills English, a remedial
course.
These new courses will incorporate an
artificial intelligence (AI) component
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Current Partners
– Education and Community Partners – Florida State
College, George Mason University, Alliance of
Community and Technical Colleges, WorkSource
– Business Partners – Pearson, Follett, agilix
BrainHoney
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Current Participating Institutions:
– Ann Arundel Community College
– Central Piedmont Community College
– Kirkwood Community College
– Lone Star College –Tomball
– Lorain County Community College
– Pellissippi State Community College
– Snead State Community College
– Genesee Community College
– Southern University in Louisiana
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Faculty Online Training
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Orientation to DELTA: 2 hrs
Learning Through Interactivity: 15 hrs
Platform Course - Blackboard: 12 hrs
Multimedia: 6 hrs
Mentoring: 18 hrs
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This low-cost instructional/textbook
replacement model known as SIRIUS,
has been under development at
Florida State College since 2005.
http://www.sirius-education.org
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Textbook replacement model
All course materials including:
• Course Content
• Learning Objects
• Discussion Questions
• Assessments
Materials for most online courses $48
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Special Feature of Courses
• Use of mastery learning for memorization
and retention of special concepts;
• Constructivist learning as expressed in
Web-based and literature research
including course capstone projects;
• Use of cooperative learning through small
team discussions and projects;
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Special Feature of Courses
• Asynchronous discussions throughout
each course which require interactivity
among students and foster higher order
critical and creative thinking;
• Use of general themes to motivate student
learning that are relevant to students'
everyday lives;
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Special Feature of Courses
• Intelligent tutoring systems which provide
students with options in the selection of
learning and motivational support; and
• Student papers developed in formats
approved for the particular discipline, such
as APA and MLA.
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Intelligent Tutor Sample:
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Current Courses - Communications,
Languages & Humanities
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Introduction to Composition, 2nd Edition
English Composition I, 2nd Edition
English Composition II, 2nd Edition
Reading Skills, 2nd Edition
Introduction to Literature (Fiction), 2nd Edition
Humanities: Foundations
Fundamentals of Public Speaking
World Religions
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Current Courses – Natural Sciences
and Mathematics
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Elementary Algebra, 4th Edition
Intermediate Algebra
College Algebra
Elementary Statistics
Life in Its Biological Environment
Biology Laboratory
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Current Courses - Social Sciences,
Education & Business
• Strategies for Success in College, Career, and
Life, 2nd Edition
• General Psychology, 3rd Edition
• Human Growth and Development, 2nd Edition
• Human Relations in Business and Industry, 2nd
Edition
• Introductory Sociology, 2nd Edition
• United States History to 1865, 2nd Edition
• Principles of Economics I
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Future Courses: 2009 - 2010
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Introduction to Philosophy
Earth & Space Science
Earth and Space Science Laboratory
United States History from 1865 to the Present
Financial Accounting
Operational Decision Making
World Geography
Topics in College Mathematics
Introduction to Business
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Future Courses: 2010 – 2011
• American Federal Government
• Humanities: 20th Century Cultural
Perspectives
• Principles of Economics II
• Introduction to Religion
• Principles of Management
• Cultural Anthropology
• Speech Communication for Business &
the Professions
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Future Courses: 2011-2012
• Calculus for Business and Social
Sciences
• Humanities in the Americas
• College Trigonometry
• Managerial Accounting
• Business Law I—The Legal Environment
of Business
• Introduction to Educational Technology
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SIRIUS Math Redesign
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The Problem – Developmental Math
• High failure rates
• High dropout rates
• Low attendance
• Roadblock to college success
The Solution – Redesign
• Try something new!
• Completely different approach
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The Redesign
• Lab Approach
• Master Student
• Individualized Interactions
Motivation
Attendance problems rectified
Get to Know Your Students
Number of Hours worked
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Unforeseen Results
• Motivation
• Attendance problems rectified
• Get to Know Your Students
• Number of Hours worked
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• Math Results
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SIRIUS Course Results
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• Composition Results
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*percentage of students receiving A, B, C grades of those receiving A-F grades
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*percentage of students receiving A, B, C grades of those receiving A-F grades
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** percentage of students receiving A-F grades of those students receiving
grades of A-F plus those who withdrew—i.e., received grades of W or FN
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*percentage of students receiving A, B, C grades of those receiving A-F grade
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Student Testimonial
"I have to say that the communication
process through online courses is
amazing... I never thought it would be so
easy and fun to take classes online. I
can communicate with people and they
do not judge me by my age, sex or
nationality."
Reprinted by permission from a student in a SIRIUS psychology
class.
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• DELTA over the next 3 years will
– Double the number of courses available (20 to 40)
– Artificial intelligence (AI) imbedded in select
courses
– Dissemination at 16 colleges in 14 states.
• Goals
– Displaced Workers – Basic Skills
– Faculty Development
– Instructional Delivery and Textbook Replacement
– Reduced Educational Costs
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Participating Institutions:
• Guarantee 5 Faculty Members
Participate Per Year
• Each Faculty Members
Teaches 5 Sections of SIRIUS
Courses
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Benefits to Participating Institutions:
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$1000 per Faculty Member Per Year
Up to $500 for Travel per Faculty Member
Free Faculty Training
Free Registration at the International
Conference on Teaching and Learning –
www.teachlearn.org
• Free Online Career Counseling for Students
• Revenue Sharing
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Project Delta team:
• Patti Levine Brown, Professor: Director and Principal
Investigator
• Jerry Shawver, Professor: Co-Director
• Dr. Jack Chambers, Executive Director
Organizational Learning Services: Co-Principal
Investigator
• Dr. Lynne Schrum, Professor and Director of Teacher
Education George Mason University: Principal
Consultant
• Dr. Linda Hagedorn, Professor and Director of the
Research Institute for Studies in Higher Education
(RISE) Iowa State University: Evaluator.
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Questions
Bill Ganza - 904.632.3114
[email protected]
To Join the Consortium
Jack Chambers – 904.632.3231
[email protected]
Fulfilling the Promise of Open
Access Textbooks – Creating a
Model for Success
Special Focus FIPSE Grant 2009-11
$300,000
Florida Distance Learning Consortium
Susie Henderson, Principal Investigator
Goal of Open Textbook Grant
• This grant project proposes to create and
present a sustainable model for Florida and
other states to discover, produce, and
disseminate open textbooks. This Open
Textbook Implementation Model will develop
and then test processes and strategies that
will be ready to disseminate among early
adopter higher educational entities, academic
presses, and educational systems.
Propose Solutions to:
– Difficulties involved
in locating open
textbooks.
– Uncertainties about
the quality of open
textbooks.
– Lack of a sustainable
financial model for
open textbooks.
– Issues related to
tenure and
promotion.
– Barriers to open
textbook adoption.
Ruth Ann Balla
Executive Director of the Virtual College
Miami Dade College
Improvement in the access of
textbooks by students;
Integration of service-learning to a
business setting, with the potential
of an entrepreneurship prospect
for students.
Student-driven book exchange
program
Online inventory and a designated
physical space at the North Campus
Four courses: Anatomy 1 and 2,
Chemistry, and Microbiology
Enrollment of 2,700 students per
semester
Advance Math pedagogy, student
success and retention through an
automated virtual coach
(advisement, tutoring, mentoring,
and tracking) system called VCoach, targeting Hispanic students
in high-risk Math courses
Automated intervention system,
integrating student tracking with STEM
advisement, Math tutorial coordination,
and STEM career advisement, and Math
performance and student engagement
analyses and evaluations;
Math-oriented Learning Communities,
utilizing best practices in Math,
collaborative, and active learning
pedagogies.
Customizable student homepage with live
webcam access to retention personnel;
Academic tracking,
Case management;
Academic advisement, including Individual
Education Plans and e-Portfolios;
Tutor coordination;
Career exploration;
Engagement tracking;
Math Portal.
Strengthen academic programs
with the goal of increasing passing
rates, retention rates, and on-time
graduation rates among students
at high risk of failing, dropping out,
and (or) not graduating on time.
Identify at-risk students earlier in their
programs using proven computer-based and
outcome-based learning assessment methods,
Implement new programs to increase access
to online and face-to-face student services
among at-risk students,
More effectively guide at-risk students into
tutoring, counseling and other student
services.