NROC Network
Members Conference
March 1, 2010
Gary Lopez, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Update Topics
1.
Network Membership and NROC Usage
2.
New Development: Algebra and Dev Math
3.
OER and the Federal Stimulus Investment
2010 Network Members
Academy School District 20 Online (CO)
Alabama ACCESS (DOE)
Albuquerque Public Schools (NM)
Anaheim Union High School District (CA)
Arizona Department of Education
Bambugare Network (Sub-Saharan Africa)
Bethel Covenant College (Uganda)
California State University at Fullerton
Catholic School K12 Virtual
Center to Bridge the Digital Divide (WSU)
Chattanooga State Tech.& Comm. College (TN)
Chesterfield School District (VA)
CORE (China)
Clark County School District (NV)
Colorado Community Colleges Online
Colorado Online Learning
CUDI (Mexico)
Florida Distance Learning Consortium
Georgia Virtual School (DOE)
GLBTQ Online High School (MN)
Global Literacy Foundation (AZ)
Greenville County Virtual School (SC)
Grossmont Union High School (CA)
Gwinnett County Online Campus (GA)
Kentucky Statewide Consortium (statewide P-20)
Hudson Schools of Technology (NJ)
Idaho Digital Learning Academy
IDEAL-New Mexico
Illinois Virtual School (DOE)
Indian Prairie School District #204 (IL)
Innovative Education Design (Korea)
Iowa Community Colleges Online Consortium
Los Angeles Unified School District
Louisiana Virtual School
Lubbock Independent School District Online (TX)
Maryland State Department of Education
Michigan Virtual High School
Mid-Hudson Regional BOCES Consortium (NY)
Minnesota Learning Commons (statewide P-20)
Minneapolis Public Schools Online
Mississippi Virtual School (DOE)
Missouri Dept. of Elem. and Secondary Education
Montana Virtual Academy
Montana State University at Billings
Myron B. Thompson Academy (HI)
National Association of Beginning Teachers
Niles Township High School District (IL)
Nebraska: Partnerships for Innovation (statewide P-20)
North Carolina Community College System
North Dakota Center for Distance Education
North Salinas High School (CA)
Northwest Area Education Agency (IA)
Oregon Department of Education
Open High School of Utah (NV)
Portland State University
Riverside Unified School District (CA)
Salish Kootenai College (MT)
San Jose Education Foundation (CA)
San Luis Obispo County Board of Education (CA)
School District of the Chathams (NJ)
Sierra Vista High School (CA)
South Carolina Virtual School (DOE)
Tulare County Office of Education (CA)
University of Alaska at Fairbanks
University of California, Irvine
University of Georgia System Board of Regents
Utah Electronic High School
University of Texas at Brownsville
UT System TeleCampus
Valley Christian School (CA)
Virtual Virginia (DOE)
WSU International Research and Development
West Virginia University-Parkersburg
West Virginia DOE
Whitfield County School District (GA)
Partner Advisors:
Council of Chief State Supervisors and Officers
(CCSSO)
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)
2009-2010 Advisors
2010 Network Members
Academy School District 20 Online (CO)
Alabama ACCESS (DOE)
Albuquerque Public Schools (NM)
Anaheim Union High School District (CA)
Arizona Department of Education
Bambugare Network (Sub-Saharan Africa)
Bethel Covenant College (Uganda)
California State University at Fullerton
Catholic School K12 Virtual
Center to Bridge the Digital Divide (WSU)
Chattanooga State Tech.& Comm. College (TN)
Chesterfield School District (VA)
CORE (China)
Clark County School District (NV)
Colorado Community Colleges Online
Colorado Online Learning
CUDI (Mexico)
Florida Distance Learning Consortium
Georgia Virtual School (DOE)
GLBTQ Online High School (MN)
Global Literacy Foundation (AZ)
Greenville County Virtual School (SC)
Grossmont Union High School (CA)
Gwinnett County Online Campus (GA)
Kentucky Statewide Consortium (statewide P-20)
Hudson Schools of Technology (NJ)
Idaho Digital Learning Academy
IDEAL-New Mexico
Illinois Virtual School (DOE)
Indian Prairie School District #204 (IL)
Innovative Education Design (Korea)
Iowa Community Colleges Online Consortium
Los Angeles Unified School District
Louisiana Virtual School
Lubbock Independent School District Online (TX)
Maryland State Department of Education
Michigan Virtual High School
Mid-Hudson Regional BOCES Consortium (NY)
Minnesota Learning Commons (statewide P-20)
Minneapolis Public Schools Online
Mississippi Virtual School (DOE)
Missouri Dept. of Elem. and Secondary Education
Montana Virtual Academy
Montana State University at Billings
Myron B. Thompson Academy (HI)
National Association of Beginning Teachers
Niles Township High School District (IL)
Nebraska: Partnerships for Innovation (statewide P-20)
North Carolina Community College System
North Dakota Center for Distance Education
North Salinas High School (CA)
Northwest Area Education Agency (IA)
Oregon Department of Education
Open High School of Utah (NV)
Portland State University
Riverside Unified School District (CA)
Salish Kootenai College (MT)
San Jose Education Foundation (CA)
San Luis Obispo County Board of Education (CA)
School District of the Chathams (NJ)
Sierra Vista High School (CA)
South Carolina Virtual School (DOE)
Tulare County Office of Education (CA)
University of Alaska at Fairbanks
University of California, Irvine
University of Georgia System Board of Regents
Utah Electronic High School
University of Texas at Brownsville
UT System TeleCampus
Valley Christian School (CA)
Virtual Virginia (DOE)
WSU International Research and Development
West Virginia University-Parkersburg
West Virginia DOE
Whitfield County School District (GA)
Partner Advisors:
Council of Chief State Supervisors and Officers
(CCSSO)
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)
New Members
Membership Usage*
Year
Students
Teachers
2006 – 2007
5,676
80
2007 – 2008
68,083
1,709
2008 – 2009
524,282
35,579
2009- 2010
Projected
969,374
54,406
* 35-50% of members reporting each year
Revenue Growth
900,000.00
800,000.00
700,000.00
600,000.00
500,000.00
400,000.00
300,000.00
200,000.00
100,000.00
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Breakeven
What’s New?: NROC Consulting
HippoCampus.org
HippoCampus Usage
3.14 Million Visits
50.41 Million Pageviews
What’s New?: Annotation
What’s New?: Annotation
What’s New?: Add a Book
What’s New?: Add a Book
Algebra 1 Project Update
Production Schedule
• Extensive prototyping and focus group work in 2009
• All systems built and full production initiated
• Semester 1 to be published July 2010, and
Semester 2 to be published October 2010
Algebra 1 Project Update
Product Features
• Correlated to all US state frameworks and the Common Core
• Correlated to widely-adopted algebra textbooks
• LO architecture: 12 Units, 26 Lessons, 72 Topics
• Designed for online and hybrid classroom use
• Single-session formative assessment
• Supporting teacher professional development
• Rich, interactive multimedia with multiple instructional elements
Algebra 1 Project Update
Product Features
• Correlated to all US state frameworks and the Common Core
• Correlated to widely-adopted algebra textbooks
• LO architecture: 12 Units, 26 Lessons, 72 Topics
• Designed for online and hybrid classroom use
• Single-session formative assessment
• Supporting teacher professional development
• Rich, interactive multimedia with multiple instructional elements
Algebra 1 Project Update
Instructional Elements include,
At the topic level:
• warm-up (text)
• presentation (video, audio, animation, and graphics)
• worked examples (audio and graphics)
• problems (interactive text)
• review (text)
• Read It (online textbook)
At the lesson level:
• virtual tutor (interactive video, graphics, text)
• project (text and graphics)
• Digital Manipulative (interactive animation, graphics)
Algebra 1 Project Update
Algebra 1 Project Update
Algebra 1 Project Update
Algebra 1 Project Update
Developmental Math Project
• We got it!
• $5M from Gates and $1M from Hewlett
• Funding began October 2009
• Project runs from 2009-2012
• Focus groups through project
• First course published December 2010
• Partnered with AMATYC
Developmental Math Project
Project Goal: Increasing the number of financiallydisadvantaged students that pass developmental math
Project Approach:
• Developing new educational interventions (“Standing on the
shoulders of the best educators.”)
• Developing an enterprise for national distribution and sustainability
(“It is more than building a better mouse trap.”)
• Engaging student, instructors, and administrator in the product and
enterprise design (“Honoring everybody and making real change
happen.”)
Developmental Math: Work to Date
Focus Groups
What is the product and enterprise?
Strategic Partnerships
How do we reach the target audience?
NROC and Algebra Development
What are the product and business development
processes?
Taxonomy
What is the curriculum?
Taxonomy
Developmental
Math: Taxonomy
Developmental Math: Taxonomy
Goals:
• Provide institutions and students with learning
activities to support an efficient path to credit-bearing
courses
• Support both flexible course configurations and a
collection of learning objects
• Support multiple curricula (NROC members,
AMATYC New Vision, Common Core State
Standards)
Developmental Math: Taxonomy
Common Curriculum Partners
Developmental Math: Taxonomy
Four “courses”: arithmetic, beginning algebra,
intermediate algebra, and geometry
The collection of course content composed of:
17 units containing,
51 lessons, containing,
116 topics, with,
346 explicit learning objectives to allow fine-grained
assessment
Developmental Math Project
Focus Groups
Iowa Assoc. of Community
College Trustees- Des Moines
American Association of
Community Colleges - Seattle
Michigan Virtual
School - Lansing
Innovations
Conference - Reno
Napa Valley College
Los Medanos
College &
Antioch
High School
Colorado
Community
Colleges - Denver
Jemez Pueblo High
School, Jemez, NM
West Mesa High School –
Albuquerque, NM
Maryland Dept. of
Education Baltimore
Innovations
Conference Baltimore
Denver School of Science,
West Denver Prep &
Mesa Middle School –
Castle Rock, CO
NROC members’
meeting Monterey
LA Unified
School District Los Angeles
US Distance Learning
Association Conference –
St. Louis
Tennessee Board of
Regents - Nashville
National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics –
San Diego
Engage students in content development
Engage instructors and administrators in enterprise planning
Focus groups: 2009 key findings
• Keep it simple: developmental students and
ELLs value simplicity
• Real-world examples are a key to
engagement
• Students and instructors want support for
multiple learning styles
• Challenges, animations, simple illustrations,
and problem sets are important
Focus groups: 2009 key findings
• Professional development and staff adoption
are key issues in community colleges
• Few instructors and institutions are locked into
an existing teaching method or digital product
• Cost and flexibility of digital products are
important ongoing concerns
Focus groups: 2009 key findings
Participants are looking for new
ways to approach math
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Math redesigns in TN, AL and
elsewhere
Revisiting standards and
requirements
This is a dynamic and critical
time in math instruction
Student diversity makes it essential
to provide content with different
context and voices
Math Focus Groups
Focus Groups
2010 Schedule:
• Los Medanos CC and Antioch HS, CA (early March)
• Innovations Conference, The League (late March)
• American Association Community Colleges (April)
• And more…
Get the math product you want . . .
host a focus group at your school.
ARRA 2009
Race to the Top
Federal Stimulus and OER