Shore 2 Shore:
APLU to WSU Initiatives
Sue Day-Perroots,
West Virginia University
INITIATIVE SAMPLING
• Goal:
• Share several initiatives that open greater dialog
and awareness for expanded opportunity and
participation.
APLU
• Gates Funding: creation of an independent, self-governing, non-profit
higher ed consortium for institutional cooperation and collaboration.
• Economies of scale
• Creation of course content – Biology, English Composition, Pre-Calculus,
and Economics- designed in Carnegie Mellon’s OLI format
• Multi- institutional collaboration: licensing, sharing and/or acquisition
of electronic course materials
• Initial interest in Personalized Learning and analytics
• $25,000 initial investment to APLU institutions
US Agency for International Development
Advancing MOOCs for Development Initiative
• Partners and co-invest:
• Improve MOOC offerings w/ emphasis on professional skill sets
• Increase workforce development MOOC content
• Increase enrollment in targeted countries
• Uses CourseTalk (for-profit MOOC aggregator
http://www.coursetalk.com/)
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Define 1-3 developing or emerging USAID countries
Define workforce development content series w/ employment
Monitor student success/ progression data
Increase MOOC enrollment & completion rates
STEM ACADEMY
• Leadership and Coordination from Dave Cillay of Washington State
University
• 19 Land-grant Universities
• Develop modules around key topics: Energy, Women in Science,
Forensic Science, Climate Change, Grand Challenges
• 3-4 Universities each develop a 2 week module for the topic for a
total of six – eight weeks of student activity
• Target audience: advanced high school, general public,
• Exploring an open edx environment which should be underwritten by
Menlov Capital
WVU Next Gen
• K-12 Common Core Math
• Partnership WVDE and WVU
• Secondary Math Teachers and Higher Ed Faculty Content Developers
with Smarter Balance assessments incorporated
• WVU iDesign Team
• Platform agnostic, Universal Design, mobile friendly
• http://k12.wvu.edu/Courses/
Other Initiatives/Innovators
• National Center for Academic Transformation – Carol Twigg
• ELI – Educause Learning Initiative
• International Council for Open and Distance Education