1. Elevate Your Game: Help Your Campus Consider a Breakthrough Model
Nancy Millichap, Program Officer Next Generation Learning Challenges, EDUCAUSE
March 18, 2013

2. Plan for this session …
Consider how proposing breakthrough ideas could help advance your career.
Get a brief introduction to NGLC and a sense of what breakthrough models (nine “breakthrough ideas” in higher ed) look like.
Select an area where you can imagine a breakthrough on your campus.
Sketch out your initial ideas for a breakthrough you could initiate.
Figure out who’d have to be involved to get it started.
Discuss it with a partner.
Decide on the next step to take.

3. New ideas and your career …
“Do one thing every day -- add a new skill, share a new idea with your group -- that will advance you. Developing this habit will keep you current, make you feel more fulfilled and confident, and increase your value. It also will make you more creative and fulfilled when you're not working.” from Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success, by Dan Schnabel

4. About NGLC NGLC Partners
NGLC identifies and accelerates the quality technology-enhanced solutions that are needed to redefine learning in the United States (at both K12 and postsecondary levels).

5. Build and share knowledge and create communities of practice.
NGLC Approach
Invest in Innovation
Multiply Impact
Build and share knowledge and create communities of practice.
Accelerate Adoption

6. A Breakthrough Model: What is it?
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7. Beginning in …
Next Generation Learning Challenges’ 2nd higher ed RFP sought to fund breakthrough degree programs
Eight are now enrolling students; one more will launch shortly
The models are influencing the national landscape:
Offering innovative opportunities for students to complete degrees
Bringing attention to the institutions that proposed them,
Leading to advancement for individuals who championed them
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8. What They’re Aiming at: 50/5/5 Targets
Launching academic year
500 students in first year, 5,000 students by 5th year after launch
50% AA completion rate in 3 years for Pell-eligible students
$5,000-$7,500/yr in average education & related spending; sticker price $5,000/yr or less

9. What NGLC’s Breakthrough Models Do
Focus on outcomes for students (not inputs)
Use technology to personalize learning and engage students
Include online elements (or are all online)
Provide targeted student support
Use learning analytics
Innovate on use of time
Use new staffing models
Save students and institutions money

10. NGLC Breakthrough Models
College for America, Southern New Hampshire University
Kentucky Community and Technical College System (through six of their CC campuses)
Rio Salado College (in Maricopa system)
Ameritas Hispanic Pathways (partnering with Brandman University)
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (with Columbus State University)
Northern Arizona University
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (with South Texas College and Texas A&M Commerce)
New Charter University

11. Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models: Student Support
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12. Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models: Student Support
University of Washington: assigning success coaches to work with students in their online bachelor’s completion program
Ameritas Hispanic Pathways of Brandman University: focusing on Hispanic learners with dual-language immersion (blends content and language acquisition)

13. Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models: Features of Student Support
Using technology in support of learning
Early alerts to allow timely intervention
Customized portals to meet individual needs
Incorporating online tools and resources
Keeping costs low so programs are affordable
Knowing the students

14. Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models: Competency Approaches
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15. Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models: Competency Approaches
Northern Arizona University: In Personalized Learning, students advance at their own pace based on their ability to master skills and demonstrate mastery through assessments
Texas Affordable Baccalaureate: faculty from 2 institutions jointly developed outcomes and assessments for skills in each discipline that replace courses
allows students to advance based on their ability to master a skill or competency at their own ...
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16. Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models: Competency Program Features
Students can show what they already know
Students can demonstrate learning (rather than test-taking skill)
Faculty can work together on what students need to know and how they’ll show it
Employers’ needs can play a role in the program development process
Graduates can point to specific outcomes of their learning

17. Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models: Technological Innovation
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18. Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models: Technological Innovation
Southern New Hampshire University’s College for America: Repurposing Salesforce as a Learning Management System for their competency-based model
Rio Salado College: Extending their locally developed learning analytics system to allow advisors, faculty, students to see the same dashboards
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19. Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models: Features of Technological Innovation
Recognition that today’s tools may not serve emerging needs or models
Repurposing ideas from other sectors to serve education
Building on what you have in place now
Starting small (pilots), working up to big

20. Put that card on top of your stack.
Your turn … pick an area from among these where you can imagine a specific breakthrough on your campus:
Student support - ?
Competency-based education - ?
Technological innovation - ?
Other area related to your expertise - ?
Put that card on top of your stack.

21. Who would you need to convince to get an idea in this area going?
A colleague in your own department?
Your immediate supervisor?
The head of your department/area?
Someone in another area of the college?
Write that person’s name or title on the “pitch target” card.

22. Seven Minute Individual Ideastorm
Sketch out your idea
Write or draw or diagram
Use your laptop, phone, paper on tables, or large sheet of paper
Go for the big idea, not the small details
Consider the features that could sell your breakthrough idea to the person whose support you need

23. Five Minute Pitch Choose a partner.
Your partner will role-play your pitch target – tell your partner whom they represent.
Explain your idea to him/her in five minutes. Answer any questions you get.
Pitch targets – ask questions if time allows.
Switch roles.

24. The End and the Beginning
Determine whether you should actually pitch your idea. What does your partner think?
If you were to proceed, what would be the next step?

25. NGLC Resources
 Breakthrough Models for College Completion: the Next Generation of Models for Higher Education 
Shows how new higher education degree programs awarded grants under NGLC's third wave of funding are breaking out of business as usual
Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models (blog series):
#1: Modular Courses
#2: Student Support
#4: Competency Approaches
Breakthrough Models Academy EDUCAUASE Institute program that allows individuals to hear from leading thinkers on breakthroughs and design their own breakthroughs in teams

26. Questions/Follow-up Nancy Millichap: nmillichap@educause.edu
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Nancy Millichap: