World-changing organizations creating world-changing solutions—together
Introducing
Kaleidoscope Mindspring
A SHEEO Peer Collaboration
Network Webinar
11 September 2012
Kaleidoscope -> Mindspring
• Kaleidoscope is the NGLC project
• Mindspring is the code-name for a next-steps
project that adapts Kaleidoscope processes,
for deployment at statewide-scales and
beyond
• Code-name eliminates confusion with STEM,
other projects (including NGLC Kaleidoscope)
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Objectives
• Introduce Project Kaleidoscope
– Context
– Purposes
– Results
• Introduce Mindspring
– Objectives
– Structure, Criteria
– Timeline
• Participation?
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Mindspring in a Nutshell
Aims to
Strengthen student performance, especially among at-risk
students, in a way that also
Strengthens institutional performance and ability to pursue the
teaching & learning mission, by means of
Multi-institutional collaboration to develop and deploy
High-performance curricular materials (including adaptive
curriculum) coupled with improved pedagogy, based on
Open educational resources (OER) and providing
High-success, low-risk, affordable adoption and sustaining
(business) models for higher education institutions of all types.
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OER Definition & Brief History
• OER Defined
– Comprehensive curricular & learning materials, including assessments
– Licensed to freely enable “4 Rs:” Reuse; Redistribute; Revise; Remix
• OER History
– 10-year movement
• Open CourseWare funded 3/2002
• Today: 100,000s of OER courses worldwide
• Billions of dollars invested in OER production right now
– Support via policy and/or practice
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US Federal ($500m+)
State (AL, AZ, FL, GA, LA, MS, MO, OR, SC, UT, WA, WV, others)
Local jurisdictions, too
Nations and jurisdictions on every continent; UNESCO, OECD, World Bank
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We Know that OER…
• Creates financial wins for students and
institutions
• Performs as well or better in terms of student
success
• Improves flexibility & personalization of learning,
and deepens learning & engagement
• Improves institutional performance, and faculty
and student satisfaction
• So why isn’t OER pervasive on US higher
education campuses…?
The “Provost’s Problem”
• Individual conversion to OER is rational
• Institutional conversion has not been rational
– OER as “one-legged stool”
• Strong production model
• Limited/no adoption, sustaining models
• All three are necessary for institutional adoption
– Problems are surmountable by individual faculty,
but involve too much cost, risk for institutions
– Until now….
Kaleidoscope & Mindspring
• Both solve the Provost’s Problem
• No OER production: partner with existing,
best-of-breed OER producers & aggregators
• Deliver robust, scalable, institutional
– Adoption model: reduce risks, ease transition,
assure success
– Self-sustaining model for OER-across-thecurriculum, at institutional/state/national scales
Kaleidoscope Project History
Next Generation Learning Challenges Wave I
• “Best of the best” postsecondary (GenEd) OER-based curricular innovation
• 1 of 600+ candidates; 1 of 30 finalists
Funded May 2011; Launched August/September 2011
• Awarded $750k to cover innovation, collaboration costs
• Up to 4 semesters; rigorous external evaluation
Requirements/Expectations
• Scalability: 2+ courses; 4,000+ students
• Focus on at-risk students
• Substantial drop in costs
• Equal or better term-over-term student success
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A Virtuous Cycle…
Share & Adopt
Discover & Select
OER
Adoption
#
Campuses
Enrolled
Students
Distinct
Courses
Course
Offerings
Instructors
1+
4000
2
2
2
Pilot
8
3,980
26
130
47
Total
8
9,327
65
277
83
30+
50+
240,000+
500,000+
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
3,500+
7,000?
NGLC Expected/Required
AY 2011-2012
Mindspring AY 2012-2013
Committed
Expected
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Other “Hard” Objective Results
Reduce the cost of
academic content as a
barrier to persistence
• Academic content
(textbook, etc.) cost
reduced by 99.8%.
• (We estimate 9095%+ is sustainable)
Increase student
success
• Persistence rates
compared to the
previous year
increased up to 10%
• Individual-course
success-rates
improved up to 145%
Sustain OER
deployment and
enhancement
• 8 campuses involved
so far, in 3 US states
• Project is selfsustaining already
(ahead-of-schedule)
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Faculty Experience
100% will use open
educational
resources again
100% found the
quality of the texts
to be equal or better
100% continued in
Kaleidoscope project
“This project is the most rewarding professional experience I have ever had.”
“This is an issue of social justice. How, in good conscience, can we not
contribute to this movement?”
“Kaleidoscope has changed my teaching, my perspective and my life.”
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Student ratings of quality of open texts
Number of Students
Worse quality
3%
Same quality
56%
Better quality
41%
0
20
40
60
80
• “It was very concise and aligned with exactly what we were
working on in the class.”
• “Having the textbook catered to us by our teacher was perfect.”
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Student Ratings of Project Overall
Number of Students
No preference
13%
Prefer traditional
13%
Prefer Kscope
73%
0
20
40
60
80
100
• “I enjoy having online texts provided for me because I'm poor. I
spend the money I have left after rent on school, so having free
online texts provided for me benefits me very much.”
• “GREAT WAY TO DO ONLINE CLASSES!!!!”
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World-changing organizations creating world-changing solutions—together
NEXT-STEPS INITIATIVE
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Kaleidoscope in Context
• Proved concept, at-scale
– Multi-campus, multi-institution
– Thousands of students, hundreds of faculty
– Big wins in costs, performance, and satisfaction
• What wasn’t (entirely) accomplished?
– Full build-out of curriculum
– Full institutionalization (e.g., governance)
– Scaling to statewide, nationwide deployment
– These are the deliverables for Mindspring
Mindspring Project Plan
• Recruit: 3-5 US state higher education establishments
– “Reasonably comprehensive” (tipping-point) commitment of
public institutions
– Goal: ~500,000 PSE students at 50+ institutions will have all-OER
General and Developmental Ed curricula within 2 years
• Participants commit to: implementing Kaleidoscope process
and Mindspring sustaining model, going forward
• Project seeks: one-time private funding to complete
institutionalization, curricular build-out, etc.
• Result: a self-sustaining OER-across-the-curriculum project
that any US higher education institution can join without
requiring external support, initially or ongoing
Current Status
• Firm Commitments
– KY (20+ institutions; 120k+ students)
– AZ (1/10+ institutions; 100k+ students)
– CA (10+ institutions; ~100k+ students)
• Already past self-sustaining mark; we can launch now,
if necessary
• Several additional states considering participation
– Various stages of discussion
– 134+ institutions
– 1.4m+ students
• First convening post-Columbus Day
• Follow-up questions?
(Chris)
Christopher J. Mackie, Ph.D.
Executive Director, CollaborationSource
cjm@collaborationsource.org
Thank you!
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