MCCVLC – Providing Educational Access, Anytime, Anywhere Appropriations Subcommittee Presentation March 11, 2013 St. Clair County Community College

The Michigan Community College Virtual Learning Collaborative is a project which allows students from anywhere in Michigan to take any one of the over 2100 online courses from the on-line catalog; courses which may be offered by one of the 26 “Provider” community colleges… with the support of their “Home” college.

 MCCA Statewide Community College Services Task Force (1996) ◦ 50% Area of State and 20% of Population underserved ◦ Access – a financial, academic, and geographic hallmark of community colleges

 Focus on the learner and student support services required in a virtual environment  NOT a 29th community college  Low overhead/staffing  Increase options for learners

“To connect the teaching and student support capacity of participating Michigan community colleges so that learners and clients can access affordable, high-quality learning opportunities whenever and wherever desired.”

 Instruction from provider college  Students maintain strong association with the home college ◦ Support services ◦ Transcripts ◦ Library ◦ Test proctoring ◦ Financial Aid The Model

  Are You Ready? ◦ Are You Ready for Online Learning? ◦ Time Management ◦ Technology Requirements  Course Catalog  Degrees  Help Center  Enroll in Courses

 MCCA Board of Directors - policy  North Central Association – Higher Learning Commission - accreditation  MCCVLC Advisory Council – operational advisement

 Memorandum of Understanding ◦ Articulation agreement ◦ Financial Aid consortium agreement ◦ Common tuition ◦ Revenue sharing

 Professional Development  Resume Bank  Quality Course Assurance Program  Accessibility Resources – Project GOALS  Virtual Simulations  Online Teacher Certification Courses  Membership Surveys  State Authorization Project  MCCVLC – HLC Accreditation Project  Grants for Program Development/Student Services  ‘Test the Water’ Pilot Projects  Collaborative Purchases

 Issues with current model:  Built around institutions and not the students  Serves as a last option for getting a course  Greater competition from outside of state  Identifiable unmet need  Low institutional incentive for new online offerings  The name, Michigan Community College Virtual Learning Collaborative, is obscure - students don’t know what it means.

 Outcomes – defined to provide value for students and member colleges  Quality – Student focused  Collaboration – Better resource management  Market Share – Move to complete degree/certificate programs, addressing unmet need

Michigan Colleges Online

 Course Aggregator – ◦ provides students with real time course availability on the MCCVLC website within their home college online registration

 Digital Credential Pathway – ◦ provides the student with information on what courses to take and when, based on what courses already taken and what credential is desired.

 Immediate Feedback – ◦ Data reporting to colleges on specific courses/programs that have the highest demand and/or requests through MCCVLC.

 Michigan Colleges Online Repository – ◦ An open library of digital assets for member institutions with short learning activities, videos, assessments, open textbooks or full courses. ◦ Faculty can adopt, revise as they wish. ◦ Uses digital assets developed by faculty willing to share their work.

 Improved Student Support – ◦ Provide students with an early alert system to support successful completion of the course. ◦ Create a collaborative student advisement portal to support individual colleges. ◦ Streamline process for students needing financial aid for virtual courses. ◦ Use student feedback to streamline student support.

 Marketing – ◦ Focus marketing plan towards untapped clients such as active-duty military and veterans, industry credentialing, dual enrollment, and international students. ◦ Re-branding to be more student oriented rather than institution based.

Course Aggregator/Infrastructure Hardware$50,000 Software Development - (Aggregator for courses, digital credential pathway, revised online registration system, analytics program, integration costs) $550,000 Collaborative Repository Hardware$20,000 Software$60,000 Content Development$420,00 $1,100,000

St. Clair County Community College PSY 220 – Life Span Developmental Psychology

Ronda Edwards Executive Director – MCCVLC