1. MCCA Board of Directors Meeting October 5, 2018

2. Agenda State of Online Education at Michigan Community Colleges
Open Educational Resources Initiative
Collaborative Programs Initiative

3. State of Online

4. State of Online Percentage of total enrollment
Fall 2017
Fall 2015
Average
20.47%
21.31%
Median
20.80%
17.90%
Range
5.3% %
7% – 57.14%
Percentage of total enrollment
Average: ( %) ( %) (2014 – 18.75%) Median: ( %) ( %) (2014 – 13.7%)

5. State of Online Demand for online courses In 2016 – 58% being met
42% - exceeding supply

6. State of Online Typical online student Female Between 18 -25 years old
Resides in the college district

7. State of Online
Organizational structure

8. State of Online
State Authorization

9. State of Online Challenges for DE Program
Addressing accessibility & universal design
Operating and equipment budgets
Adequate student support for online students
Support staff needed for training and technical assistance
Maintaining awareness of new trends

10. Open Educational Resources Initiative

11. MCO OER Initiative Goals: Improving student success
Lowering costs for students
Increasing inter-institutional faculty collaboration

12. MCO OER Initiative Statewide Steering Committee
Representation from all 28 community colleges
Meets every 6 – 8 weeks
Activities to support Initiative Goals

13. Federal Efforts US Department of Ed – OER Project Grant
One award - $4.9 million
LibreText – UC Davis
STEM focused & CTE
Consortium of 4 universities/8 community colleges
FY19 – US DoE – OER Grant
$4.9 million
Planned multiple awards
Longer proposal time – 60 days

14. Open Educational Resources MCO Survey
Impact on institutions
32% - Very Little (27.1% - Nationally)
36% - Significant (69.5% - Nationally)
32% - Not Sure
Roadblocks to adoption
Faculty reluctance to use (19)
Lack of faculty awareness (14)
Time needed to locate/evaluate resources (19)
Credibility of sources (8)
Lack of ancillary materials (14)
Resistance from administration (3)

15. MCO Repository Hosted by OER Commons
Connection to over 80,000 resources
Low maintenance costs
Authoring tools
Training

16.
Within a Hub, anyone can search the resources that have been curated into collections. Search also includes resources that are saved to Groups highlighted on a Hub.

17. Search a Hub
Working with the team at OER Commons, the MCO Repository has content collections curated specifically for our faculty and staff. Additionally, unique keywords can be used to further populate a Collection.

18. Search a Hub Anyone can look at another Group’s collections.
Within the MCO Repository each college is organized as a Group - a community of practice on OER Commons where members can curate resources, organize them, collaborate on authoring, and hold discussions using the Discussion board.
Search a Hub
Anyone can look at another Group’s collections.
Get ideas about resources that are in use by others.
Find resources that are newly added to Groups of interest.
Access your Group via your LMS
We offer LTI access to a Group so all your curated resources are easily added to your LMS.

19. MCO Repository Usage

22. OER Usage Biology Anatomy & Physiology US History Chemistry Sociology
Physics
Psychology

23. Faculty Grants - Adoption
Macomb Community College – Analytic Geometry Jon Oakes & Mohamed Zorkot Northwestern Michigan College – Psychology Deb Maison Lansing Community College – Social Psychology Sharon Hughes, Richard Coelho & Vaughn Vowels Mott Community College – US History Brian Harding & Aaron Guylas

24. Faculty Grants - Adaption
Mott Community College - World History
Aaron Gulyas & Brian Harding
Lansing Community College - Cell Biology & Human Genetics
Arthur Wohlwill
Lansing/Northwestern – American History
Northwestern Michigan College - Mindy Morton
Lansing Community College – Anne Heutsche
Mid Michigan Community College - Psychology and Communication
Maria Gross, Kelly Eltzroth, Diane Miller
Kirtland Community College – Psychology
Michael Peters

25. Faculty Grants - Develop
Spanish – Lansing Community College
Kari Richards, Sara Bostwick and Stephanie Throne
Ancillary resources for Spanish I and II
Forensic Science – Mott Community College & Genesee Career Institute
Mott Community College – Jennifer Fillion
Genesee Career Institute - Dawn Bright
Introductory text with workbook for Forensic Science
Fashion – Lansing Community College
Christine Conner, Ann Wojtkowski, Andrea Bartlett, Samantha Bartlett
Introductory text and workbook for Principles of Design

26. MCO OER Activities 2018 MI OER Summit – September 21, 2018
Hosted by St. Clair County Community College
Keynote was provided by Dr. Chris Gilliard and focused on Interrogating Open Pedagogy: Privacy, Equity and Open Education
Over 165 faculty, administrators and staff from K-12, community colleges and universities from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Canada.
Eighteen breakout sessions
Discipline-specific roundtables

27. MCO OER Activities Continued training
Continued reporting on usage/savings
Open Week Activities – March 2019
Research Project
Collaborative Development Project

28. Collaborative Programs Initiative

29. Consortium Agreement and Program Addendums
Membership
Governance
Financial Model
Instruction Model

30. Membership Conditions of Membership Institutions of higher education
Maintain institutional accreditation
Membership in MCCA-MCO
Abide by the terms and conditions of MCCA-MCO Memorandum of Understanding
Commitment to work collaboratively for the common good of the students and program

31. Governance Consortium Advisory Board Program Committee
Dean/VP representative from each member institution
Executive Director of MCCA-MCO
Director of Collaborative Programs
Directs the Consortium strategic and financial decisions
Program Committee
For each program of study offered
Program Director/Educational Coordinator from each participating institution
Establishes and executes processes/procedures to effectively support the collective operation of the program and ensure successful student outcomes.

32. Instruction Model
Member institutions responsible for all instructional aspects
Members commit to the MCCA-MCO Guidelines for Online Programs of Study
Common curriculum – collaboratively developed and maintained by qualified faculty
Cost of curriculum development shared equally – new members contribute
Colleges hire and evaluate faculty
Programmatic accreditation is completed as a consortium program
Program effectiveness standards are established and used by all members
Member institutions admit, support and grant the degree for their students in the program

33. Financial Model
All revenue & expenses are shared equally among the members
MCCA-MCO is Consortium Fiscal Agent
Revenue – tuition from student enrollments in MCO
All member institutions have a pre-determined number of students/cohort. Are fiscally responsible for any vacancies.
All expenses for the collaborative program are charged to the consortium

34. Program Updates MRI Technologist Program
Cohort graduated 29/30 and so far 11 have passed their boards
Cohort has 27 students that started May
Program Completion Rate (5 year average) – 87%
Credentialing Examination Pass Rate (5 year average) – 80%
Job Placement Rate w/in one year (5 year average) – 99%

35. Program Updates CT Technologist Program Lead by Mid Michigan College
Started Winter 2018 – 4 students
Cohort began Fall 2018 with 9 students

36. Program Updates EEG Technologist Program
Lead institution – Lansing Community College
Started Winter 2018 – 8 students
Clinical partners impressed with students’ skills and knowledge
New cohort starts Fall 2019

37. MCO OER Initiative