Education in an
Online World
Gary Lopez, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
Education in an
Online World
 Who is this Lopez guy?
 Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
 A National Snapshot of Online Education
 The National Repository of Online Courses
 Mongabay.com: The future of online education?
Who is this Lopez guy?
Bay Area Science Fair 1967
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1976
Archipelago World Headquarters, 1981
We Wanted To Develop “Madden Football” for Chemistry
QuickTime™ and a
Cinepak decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Archipelago, Monterey, 1993
October 14, 1993
Harcourt Acquisition
Harcourt General Inc. said yesterday that its publishing
subsidiary, Harcourt Brace & Company, had acquired
Archipelago Productions Inc., a developer of CD-ROM and
interactive computer software. The terms of the deal were not
disclosed. Archipelago Productions has offices in San
Francisco, San Diego and Lake Tahoe, Calif. Harcourt
General is based in Chestnut Hill, Mass.
1996
Monterey Institute for
Technology and Education
A Non-Profit Corporation
Established in 2003
Who
MITE?
Who IsisMITE?
Mission
To help meet society’s need for access to effective, highquality educational opportunities in an era of rapid
economic, social, and personal change.
MITE Projects
National Repository for Online Courses
Developmental Math Enterprise
MacArthur Series for Digital Media
A National Snapshot of
Online Education
A National Snapshot of Online Learning
A National Snapshot of Online Learning
A National Snapshot of Online Learning
A National Snapshot of Online Learning
The National Repository
of Online Courses
A library of high-quality, multimedia
rich online courses for high school,
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Advanced Placement , and higher
education students and teachers.
The Goals of NROC
To create a repository of high-quality, high school, Advanced
Placement, and undergraduate courses and distribute them
at no cost to students and teachers worldwide.
In pursuing this goal, NROC achieves other important outcomes,
including,
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addressing the needs of underserved students
helping establish content and technical standards for online content
fostering collaboration among content developers and users
supporting the Open Educational Resource movement
become financially self-sustaining
Open Educational Resources
OER Providers
NROC Library - 2010
College
Course Foundations
Advanced Placement
Course Foundations
High School
Course Foundations
US History I
US History II
American Government
Introductory Physics I (algebra-based)
Introductory Physics II (algebra-based)
General Physics I (calculus-based)
General Physics II (calculus-based)
Introductory Calculus I
Introductory Calculus II
General Calculus I
General Calculus II
Environmental Science
Non-Majors Biology
Religions of the World
Elementary Algebra
Psychology
Calculo General I (Spanish)
Calculo General II (Spanish)
Statistics for the Social Sciences
AP Environmental Science
AP Physics B I
AP Physics B II
AP Physics C I
AP Physics C II
AP US History I
AP US History II
AP US Government and Politics
AP Calculus AB I
AP Calculus AB II
AP Calculus BC I
AP Calculus BC II
AP Biology
College Prep Physics I
College Prep Physics II
Algebra 1a
Algebra 1b
Curso de Algebra 1A (Spanish)
Curso de Algebra 1B (Spanish)
Coming in 2010-12
Algebra 1a and b (NEW)
Pre-algebra
Developmental Algebra
Developmental Geometry
Developmental Algebra 2
Value Propositions
• Media rich
• Editorially rigorous
• Instructionally sound
Value Propositions
Can be used within
popular CMS’s and
repositories.
Customizable by a teacher, a district, or a state.
Value Propositions
Correlated with
state standards
and popular
textbooks.
Complete
teaching
materials.
Where does NROC content come from?
Two sources:
Contributions
from academic institutions
Collaborative Development
managed by NROC Network
Network Members, Pilots, & Partners
Academy School District 20 Online
Adams 12 Five Star Schools
Alabama Department of Education
Albuquerque Public Schools
Anaheim Public Schools
AP Prep
Arizona Department of Education
Aurora Public Schools
Bambugare Network
Bethel Covenant College (Uganda)
Cal State Fullerton
Center to Bridge the Digital Divide
Chattanooga State
Chemeketa CC
Clark County Virtual High School
Colorado Community Colleges Online
Colorado Online Learning
West Virginia Comm. Tech. College
Cooperstown Central School
CORE (China)
CUDI (Mexico)
Cyberlearning
Digital Learning Commons
Douglas County School District
Eastside Preparatory School
EPC-Summer Academies
Esperanza Academy
Everett Public Schools
Florida Distance Learning Consortium
Florida Virtual School
FSS Project T.E.C.H
Georgia Board of Regents
Georgia Virtual School
Global Literacy Foundation
Greenville County Virtual School
Grossmont Union High School District
Gwinnett County Online Campus
Hamilton County Virtual School
Hawaii Department of Education
HOPE Academy
Hudson County Schools of Technology
Idaho Digital Learning Academy
iInstructor.net
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League for Innovation
Los Angeles Unified School District
Louisiana Department of Education
Lubbock Christian University
Lubbock Independent School District
Maryland State Depart. of Education
Mason City School District
Mead School District
Michigan Virtual School
Mid-Hudson BOCES Consortium
Minneapolis Public Schools Online
Minnesota Online
Mississippi Department of Education
Missouri Virtual Instruction Program
Missouri Virtual School
Montana State University - Billings
Monterey Peninsula School District
myHimacha l(India)
Myron B. Thompson Academy
Network for Mercy Education
New Mexico Cyber Academy
New York Harbor School
Niles Township High School District
North Carolina Comm. College System
N. Dakota Ctr. for Distance Education
Northwest Area Education Agency
Northern Humboldt Con. of Schools
Northview High School
Omaha Public Schools
Open High School of Utah
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OTAN (CA DOE)
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School District of the Chathams
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Silver State High School
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Tulare County Office of Education
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University of California College Prep
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University of California Irvine
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NROC Network Case Studies
Offering Course Content Statewide
CHALLENGE:
Offer high-quality online course
content statewide
“The (NROC courses) were a unique find. The quality is extraordinary,
the flexibility is exceptional, and the feedback we’re getting from our
teachers is the content is amazing.”
Steve Nelson
Chief Information Technology Strategist, ODOE
NROC Network Case Studies
Credit Recovery
CHALLENGE:
High percentage of
students not passing or
completing courses
“The use of the new OPS-branded HippoCampus site is very exciting
for us, providing an additional resource for our teachers and giving
them the ability to create their own HippoCampus pages.”
Rachel Wise, Ph.D.
Director of Secondary Education, OPS
NROC Network Case Studies
Sharing Through a Central Repository
CHALLENGE:
Promote content sharing and
save development costs
among 35 member colleges.
"Starting a statewide digital repository is a challenge. At the
core of the project, the repository must offer sufficient rich
multimedia and high quality resources to attract and motivate
faculty to use repository content. In Florida, we are licensing
the high quality NROC content library to form that essential
content core."
Susie Henderson, Director, Orange Grove
NROC Network Case Studies
Replacing Costly Textbooks
CHALLENGE:
Textbook prices are too high.
On teaching US History without a textbook
“. . . we turned to NROC. I left my discussion questions, midterms,
and finals the same as they were when we used the textbook, so I
could compare outcomes. I was happy to find that my students are
right on track with the digital alternative . . . “
Karen Kaemmerling
Chair of Social Sciences, CCCOnline
HippoCampus.org
http://www.hippocampus.org
HippoCampus: Fall 2009
Federal Stimulus and OER
Federal Stimulus and OER
Mongabay.com:
The future of online
education?
The Old Face of Education
The New Face of Education
What is Mongabay.com?
Website raising interest in wildlife
and wild lands while promoting
awareness of environmental issues.
Primary users are K-12 teachers
and students.
60,000 unique users per day.
Mongabay.com
Website Growth
Mongabay.com
How did it happen?
Optimizing the site
through a combination
of keys words, links,
bookmarking, etc.
Mongabay.com
skyrocketed in Google
ranking in early 2003.
Online Educational Resources
A Cautionary Tale
Content Authority
In the online world, traditional
measures of authority (credibility) do
not drive usage.
Online Educational Resources
A Cautionary Tale
What Drives Usage?
Online Resources are dependent on the web and search
engines • Access is a direct function of the index ranking; “first-page phenomenon.”
• Index ranking is a direct function of the primary measures of the ranking
algorithm (e.g., links, key words, etc.)
• The use of Online Resources is a direct function of the site
optimization.
Online Educational Resources
A Cautionary Tale
What Drives Usage?
Education is dependent on authority tied to reputation based on
certification (e.g., Ph.D.) •
A degree from MIT is considered more valuable than a degree from a
state college.
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The analysis/information of a Ph.D. is more trustworthy than that of a
person without a graduate degree.
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The analysis/information of a MIT Ph.D. is more valuable and trustworthy
than a person without a graduate degree.
Online Educational Resources
A Cautionary Tale
What Drives Usage?
Putting these two statement sets together . . .
Online Educational Resources
are dependent on the
web and search engines.
• Search engines do not include “authority tied to reputation based on
certification” as a measure for determining indexing rank.
• The best optimized OER sites will be the most used and influential, not
those with the most academically qualified content.
Online Educational Resources
A Cautionary Tale
Content Authority at Mongabay
All the content at Mongabay.com has been created by
Rhett Butler; no peer review, no editorial oversight, no
certification.
Copyright Notification at Mongabay –
Mongabay.com is a web site based on the work of Rhett A. Butler.
Mr. Butler reserves all rights to the contents and any use of this
site.
Online Educational Resources
A Cautionary Tale
Site Credibility Notification at Mongabay –
While I'm not a tropical biologist (my background is in math and
economics), I have been involved with tropical rainforests since
1995. More importantly, the information sources (peer-reviewed
journals, respected researchers, etc) used by mongabay.com are
credible. Further the site has been praised by a number of wellrespected conservation biologists -- including Dr. Russell
Mittermeier of Conservation International, Dr. Peter Raven of
the Missouri Botanical Gardens, William F. Laurance of the
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Mark Plotkin of the
Amazon Conservation Team, and Dr. David L. Pearson of
Arizona State University, among many others.
Online Educational Resources
Mongabay vs Smithsonian
#1
#140
OER Cautionary Tale
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
OER Cautionary Tale
Mongabay vs STRI: Reach