Can We Count On Online
Learning in the College
Readiness Equation? !
Pete Smith!
Associate Vice President,
Academic A"airs!
Definitions!
Distance Education
Resources at UTA!
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Center for Distance Education!
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founded in April, 1997!
sta" of 18!
undergraduate and graduate programs!
UT TeleCampus!
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10 graduate degree programs!
“core courses” on#line!
BCJ degree completion program!
Center for Distance
Education!
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“Full#Service Design and Delivery of On#line
Courses and Degrees” !
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Instructional Design & Project Management!
Learning Management Systems $LMS’s%!
75 Faculty, 200 Courses in Active Inventory!
Faculty Client Services!
Faculty Training in “Emerging Tools”!
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Weblogs!
Podcasting/Media Self#Publishing!
Synchronous Meeting Tools!
Desktop Communications Tools!
Enrollment Statistics,
CDE"Produced Internet
Courses!
Enrollment Statistics, #
Fall 2008!
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UTA CDE/Headcount: 2480 $+9.6&%!
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Internet#Only Schedule !
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2300 $campus#wide, Spring, 2008%!
20,000+ SCH’s in AY 2007#2008!
Tools and Technologies!
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WebCT/Blackboard $Commercial Learning
Management System%!
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Moodl" $Open Source LMS%!
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Weblogs $800+ created since Sept. at blog.uta.edu%!
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WebEx $Synchronous Conferencing%!
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Desktop Communications $Skyp", iCha#%!
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Portable Media $Podcasting, etc.%!
Tools and Technologies/
Trends!
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Toward Open Source!
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Open Architectures!
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Technologies that Support Wide Range of Faculty
Teaching Philosophies and Approaches!
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Tools Bundled with High#Level of CDE/Academic
Support!
Political Science 2311
Business Administration
Candidate for online
development?!
Teaching Faculty!
MATH 0301,
AY 2007!2008 Cohort
50%
47%
Percentage of Online Students
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
18%
17%
17%
23-27
28-35
36+
15%
10%
5%
2%
0%
0-17
18-22
Age Range
N = 102
MATH 0301,
AY 2007!2008 Cohort
Percentage of Online Students
35%
30%
29%
28%
25%
23%
20%
14%
15%
10%
4%
5%
2%
0%
African American
American Indian
Asian
Hispanic
Ethnicity
Not Specified
White
MATH 0301,
AY 2007!2008 Cohort
60%
56%
Percentage of Online Students
50%
40%
30%
24%
21%
20%
10%
0%
Male
Female
Gender
Not Specified
N = 102
MATH 0301,
AY 2007!2008 Cohort
70%
66%
Percentage of Online Students
60%
50%
40%
34%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Pass
Fail
Course Completion Rate
Selected Awards and
Recognition
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!Best in Nation" Degree Programs, U.S. News and
World Report, 2002 & 2003
USDLA Award for !Course Design Best Practices,"
2006, 2007
Jenny Jopling: TxDLA Past President, USDLA Board
Member
NASULGC/Sloan-C National Commission on
Distance Education #President James D. Spaniolo and
Pete Smith$
Dr. Pete Smith
Center for Distance Education
#817$ 272-5727
pete@distance.uta.edu